Reminiscence is a self-hosted bookmark and archive manager.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Bookmark links and edit its metadata (like title, tags, summary) via web-interface.
- Archive links content in HTML, PDF or full-page PNG format.
- Automatic archival of links to non-html content like pdf, jpg, txt etc..
- i.e. Bookmarking links to pdf, jpg etc.. via web-interface will automatically save those files on server.
- Supports archival of media elements of a web-page using third party download managers.
- Directory based categorization of bookmarks
- Automatic tagging of HTML links.
- Automatic summarization of HTML content.
- Special readability mode.
- Search bookmarks according to url, title, tags or summary.
- Supports multiple user accounts.
- Supports public and group directory for every user.
- Upload any file from web-interface for archiving.
- Easy to use admin interface for managing multiple users.
- Import bookmarks from Netscape Bookmark HTML file format.
- Supports streaming of archived media elements.
- Annotation support for both HTML, its readable version.
- Annotation support for both archived and uploaded pdf/epub files.
- Remembers last read position of html (and its readable version), pdf and epub.
- Rudimentary support for adding custom note.
Website: github.com/kanishka-linux/reminiscence
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Developer: Abhishek K
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

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