After using Pinboard.in for several years I noticed that I basically only ever use the features described above. Also while I like the minimal approach and the quick UI of Pinboard, it could just look a little bit nicer. So I took that opportunity to make a hobby project out of building such a service myself while also learning something new. I decided on Python and Django as stack, as I never really used Python and Django looked impressive. Building the application took me around 2 weeks. I implemented the features above, added a basic CSS framework with minimal tweaks so the UI looks nice and made everything work on mobile. My take-aways from the project are that Django is really awesome. Django is a batteries-included web framework and provides pretty much everything you'll ever need OOTB. The documentation is among the best I have ever seen. Also as someone who has been mostly working on SPAs / rich clients for the last decade I have to admit it was a sobering experience how quickly you can get results with an integrated server-side framework like this. I'll definitely consider that approach more from now on.
If you are interested, the application is basically ready-for-use and easily installed with Docker. I have been running it for 6 months now in a Docker container on my Raspberry Pi and in terms of just dumping links into a storage it suffices for me. I provided a demo instance with open registration here: https://demo.linkding.link
username=linkdemo password=checkitout123
Disclaimer that I'm not responsible for the content that other people add to that account :)
I like your suggestion too, but I would hold off from renaming unless I can say with certainty that it is a common issue.
Thanks for your comment, it made me realize I stopped thinking about persistence at some point and now I had to look up on SQLite usage in production. However for the apps current use-case of handling one account / one person it seems fine to use SQLite.
My use case would be running this on AWS ECS, but since this wouldn't get written to very often (probably) and the file hopefully wouldn't be very big either, I could just have the container or a sidecar pull it from S3 on startup and sync it at regular intervals and on shutdown.
Incidentally Firefox also uses SQLite for storing bookmarks (among other things.)
Edit: originally s/stupid/dumb, but HN changes that to "db". Ha!
I use NextCloud's bookmark on Android and it kind of does that but it's pretty basic and there are many rooms for improvements.
I think by default Chrome hides the bookmark bar when you are on a page. You can toggle the bookmark bar to be shown permanently from the Chrome Settings. If you're on a Mac the shortcut is CMD+Shift+B, on Windows it should be CTRL+Shift+B.
If that doesn't solve your problem - do you have any specific settings in Chrome, like Javascript disabled?
Docker might seem intimidating at first, but it really isn't hard to get started if you only want to spin up a container.
FYI the email is not used, the registration completes immediately without confirmation.
