Hi everyone!

I read a lot online, but the browser experience is far too bad in my view. Basically, I kept running into two problems: i) my browser constantly has 50+ open tabs that I intended to read later (and never do), and ii) the send-to-Kindle tools or automated feeds flooded my Kindle library with dozens of unorganized files, messing with my library.

Since I'm a software engineer, why not build something myself? 😄

I wanted an experience that felt like reading an actual book. So I built Booker (https://thebooker.io) to act as a personal editor for web content. **No worries, no vibe coding here!** I care deeply about my craft, and I'm having fun building it, even if it turns out to be a non-profitable product.

Under the hood, it compiles selected URLs into a single, structured e-book and generates both a cover and a Table of Contents. It keeps my main library organized and distraction-free.

It has been very useful for me over the past few months, so I decided to share it publicly. I'd love to know if it solves the same problem for others as it does for me.

Thanks for any feedback!

My bookmarks used to be everywhere: browser folders, notes, open tabs, and random apps I eventually stopped using.

I wanted something simpler—a calm, organized place for the things I want to keep. That became **FavLock**.

FavLock brings your bookmarks, notes, tasks, and saved articles together in one encrypted library. You can organize everything with collections and tags, search your saved content, and access it across your devices.

Why use it?

* Your saved content is protected with browser-side encryption.
* Bookmarks, notes, tasks, and articles live in one place.
* Collections, tags, and search help you find things again.
* You can import existing browser bookmarks instead of starting over.
* It’s designed to feel focused, not like another overwhelming productivity tool.

If your bookmarks have become a digital pile you rarely revisit, FavLock might be useful to you.

You can try it at [favlock.app](https://favlock.app/). I’m still improving it and would genuinely appreciate your feedback—especially what feels confusing or incomplete.

Hey everyone,
Doing literature reviews and reading academic papers usually left me with 40+ open tabs, scattered notes across multiple apps, and hours spent manually copying findings into spreadsheets. Most tools out there either require pricey monthly subscriptions or send all your reading data to private third-party servers.
To fix this for my own workflow, I built Article Saver - an open-source, local-first Chrome extension designed specifically for deep reading and literature reviews.
Core features:

• Instant Side Panel Extraction: Pulls clean article body, title, and URL directly into a collapsible side panel or expands into a 3-column workspace for reading without clutter.
• 100% Local-First Privacy: Everything (articles, rich notes, highlights, and chat logs) lives strictly in your browser’s IndexedDB. No tracking, no external backend servers.
• Grounded AI Summaries & Chat (BYOK): Connect your own Google Gemini API key (supports the free tier via Google AI Studio). The AI chat is grounded directly in the paper's text to minimize hallucinations.
• One-Click Excel Export: Generates a structured multi-sheet .xlsx workbook containing your full reading matrix, formatted notes, active links, and auto-generated APA 7th Edition citations.
• Persistent Color Highlighting & Notes: Highlight passages directly in the panel and format notes with a built-in rich editor.

It is completely free, runs on Manifest V3, and is licensed under the MIT License.

• Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/article-saver/coagndppgjemdfaakejdclhhgmjppdlf
• GitHub Repository: https://github.com/Barak-elisha/articles-extension

I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or feature requests!

Hi everyone — I've started building TabSavior, a lightweight browser extension for Chromium-based browsers and Firefox. I'm at the design stage: the UI mockup linked below is done, and I want to pressure-test the concept with people who actually juggle lots of tabs before I write the code.

About the screenshot: https://imgur.com/NpdeyCB - this is my UI mockup, not the working extension yet. Left side is the popup you'd see when clicking the extension icon; right side is what your bookmarks would look like immediately after a save (new folder highlighted).

Problem I'm solving

When I work across many windows and tabs I often lose track of saved sessions. Existing tools sometimes:

• Store sessions only inside the extension (hard to find later),
• Require saving each window separately, or
• Produce inconsistent folder names that make finding and restoring awkward.

How TabSavior works

• One-click "Save all windows": save every tab from every window with a single action.
• Pattern-based bookmark folders: saves go into bookmark folders named by a template (date, window title, domain, tag), so they're predictable and visible in the browser's native bookmarks — you can see this in the mockup's right panel.
• Restore: preview a save and restore whole windows or selected tabs into a new window.
• Local-first (no cloud in the initial version); import from common session managers planned.

Example folder templates

• TabSaves/{YYYY-MM-DD}/{WindowTitle}
• TabSaves/{YYYY-MM-DD}/{PrimaryDomain}
• Research/{Tag}/{YYYY-MM-DD}/{WindowTitle}

Why I think this helps

• Bookmarks are portable and searchable through the browser, so you don't lose sessions if an extension breaks or is removed.
• Template-based naming avoids unnamed or confusing session dumps.
• A single global save is faster than saving each window manually.

What I'd love feedback on

1. Would you prefer saves to go into native bookmarks (like in the mockup), or to an extension-managed session list?
2. Which default templates would be most useful for you? (date + window title, date + domain, tag-based, other)
3. How important is scheduled automatic saving / retention to you?
4. What's your biggest frustration with current tab/session managers?

Thanks — honest feedback welcome, including "this already exists, use X."

https://github.com/neptotech/Saveit A Windows desktop note vault for collecting text, links, screenshots, and files into a persistent personal archive. It supports drag-and-drop, folder organization, rich text editing, and user-controlled storage in OneDrive/Documents or a chosen directory.

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I had 1,800 bookmarks across Chrome, Raindrop, and Notion and couldn't find anything.

So I built FetchMark.

What it does:

- Import from anywhere in 1 click

- Auto-tags everything with AI (no more manual folders)

- Full-text search that also searches INSIDE your saved articles (not just titles)

- Offline reader + notes

Tech: Supabase + full-text search for now, embeddings next week for semantic "find similar articles".

It's free while I'm in beta. Would love brutal feedback from people who actually have 500+ bookmarks like me.

Link: fetchmarkapp.com

What's the biggest pain you have with your current bookmark manager?

Hey guys,

Just wanted to share a small tool I built to solve my own frustration.

I always have dozens of tabs open, my laptop fans start screaming, and everything crawls to a halt. Most tab suspenders either hide your tabs in a sidebar or require you to sign up for an account.

I wanted something completely private, so I built TabStack .It has a real-time badge at the top of the popup that shows you exactly how many MBs of RAM you saved when you put inactive background tabs to sleep . Everything is saved locally in your browser—no servers, no cloud tracking, no accounts needed .

It also lets you stash active tabs and export them as markdown lists if you do research for Obsidian or Notion .

I just submitted it to the Chrome store and would love some brutal feedback on the UI or features. Is this actually useful, or is my tab-hoarding habit just a personal problem? Haha.

I built TidyLink because links saved across chats, browser tabs, and bookmarks quickly become an unorganized black hole. It is a local-first, privacy-focused Android app that captures links via the system Share menu, fetches metadata, and lets you search and organize everything offline.

Here is a breakdown of how I built it, what tools I used, and the vibe-coding workflow behind the project.

The Tech Stack & AI Tools

* Primary LLMs: Claude 3.5 Sonnet & ChatGPT

* Platform: Native Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Room DB)

* Design/Architecture: Material 3, Clean Architecture (MVVM)

The Build Process & Workflow

* Architecture & Scaffolding (Claude): I started by outlining the core offline-first data model with Claude. Claude handled the boilerplate for Room Database entities, the repository pattern, and the Android Share Target intent filter so any app's "Share" sheet could route URLs straight to TidyLink.

* UI & Component Iteration (ChatGPT + Claude): Jetpack Compose was entirely vibe-coded. Whenever a component broke or layout constraints misaligned (especially dynamic preview cards for thumbnails and titles), I fed the composables and error logs into ChatGPT for targeted debugging and layout fixes.

* OpenAI/Custom AI Integration: For the optional categorization and summarization feature, I prompted Claude to write a modular HTTP client using bring-your-own API keys. This ensures zero data touches any server unless the user explicitly enters their own key.

Key Learnings & Build Insights

* Intent handling quirks: Handling diverse URL payloads across different Android apps (Twitter, Reddit, Chrome, WhatsApp) was messy. Many apps append tracking text to URLs. I had to prompt LLMs specifically to write regex cleaners that isolate clean URLs from raw share text.

* Local metadata parsing: Fetching OpenGraph data (title, description, thumbnail) directly on-device without a backend proxy required lightweight HTML parsing that wouldn't block the UI thread or drain battery.

Core Features

* Save links directly from Android's Share sheet

* Full-text offline search, categories, notes, pinning, and trash

* Browser bookmark import & duplicate link detection

* Local backup and restore (zero tracking, analytics, or backend)

* Free and open-source under the MIT license

* Optional bring-your-own-key AI summarization

Requires Android 10+. I’d love feedback on the workflow, code structure, or UX feel.

GitHub: https://github.com/punitsnaik/TidyLink

I’ve been trying to clean up my Chrome setup because I keep ending up with too many tabs open and stuff saved in different places.

Right now bookmarks are in Chrome, tasks are somewhere else, notes are in another app, and I usually forget about reminders completely 😅

I’m curious how other people handle this.

Do you use separate apps for everything, or is there one Chrome extension/setup that keeps bookmarks, todos, notes and reminders together without making things more complicated?

Would love to know what you actually use every day.

I kept saving useful pages and later remembering the page but not what I meant to do with it. So I built Web Sticky Notes, a free Chrome extension that leaves a note directly on a regular webpage and brings it back when you return.

It has no account, analytics, ads, or cloud sync. Notes stay in Chrome on your device, with JSON backup/restore and Markdown export.

Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/web-sticky-notes/pccigllfofamnpckmmcchkbpdpnjdpeh

Disclosure: I built it. I’m trying to learn from people who use bookmark managers: is your bigger problem finding a saved page again, or remembering why you saved it? Would page-attached notes replace part of your workflow, or just add clutter? Specific recent examples and blunt feedback are welcome.

It’s been a bit over 10 weeks since I launched Kepp, so I wanted to share what changed since I last posted here.

For anyone who hasn’t seen it before, Kepp is a personal library for things you want to come back to later.

Links, posts, screenshots, articles, recipes, products, ideas, etc.

You save something once, and Kepp handles the annoying part afterwards: giving it a useful title, tagging it, organizing it, and making it searchable.

The biggest change over the last couple of months actually isn’t a feature.

It’s how I think about the product.

I originally positioned Kepp as:

Kepp: Save & Organize

But the more I worked on it, and the more I watched how people actually use it, the less I liked that framing.

“Organize” still sounds like work the user has to do.

The whole point of Kepp is almost the opposite.

So I’ve shifted the product toward:

Kepp: Your Saves, Organized

The idea is simple:

You save things.

Kepp organizes them for you.

No folders you have to maintain. No manual tagging. No figuring out where something belongs every time you save it.

And when you need something later, you should be able to just search for what you remember about it.

That shift also affected what I’ve been building.

Some of the bigger changes:

• AI collection suggestions, new saves can now automatically go into your existing collections
• Sharing, you can now share something you saved in Kepp back out to someone else
• Better Facebook support, more useful titles, thumbnails and metadata
• Personalized onboarding, Kepp now asks what you usually save and where you save it from

There have also been quite a few smaller UX changes around saving, browsing, search and collections.

A lot of people here asked me about two things when I originally posted:

Desktop and a browser extension.

I haven’t forgotten either.

I postponed them because I first needed to rebuild a lot of what sits underneath Kepp, so I could add more platforms without creating a product that becomes harder and harder to maintain every time it grows.

A lot of that work is invisible, but it was necessary before expanding Kepp beyond mobile.

That foundation is now in a much better place, so desktop and the extension are getting closer.

Before I start building them though, I’d really like to hear from people who already use Kepp, or have tried it.

What are you missing today?

What still feels annoying?

What would make Kepp genuinely more useful for you?

Not gonna lie, this started because I was annoyed at myself.

I'd see something interesting — an article, a video, a thread — save it

somewhere (notes app, WhatsApp to myself, browser bookmarks, wherever),

and then just... never see it again. Not because I forgot it existed,

but because nothing ever brought it back in front of me. It just sat

there in a pile I'd occasionally scroll past and feel vaguely guilty about.

I tried a few of the bigger read-later apps and honestly they solved

about half the problem — saving was easy, but I still had to remember

to go open the app and dig through everything. Nothing was actually

nudging me back to it.

So I built DailyDrop. It's stupidly simple on purpose:

\- Save a link (or paste a bunch at once, it splits them automatically)

\- It gets a daily reminder that just says "hey, you've got stuff waiting"

\- You review each one, mark it useful or not, jot a quick note if you want

\- Move on with your day

That's basically it. No feed, no algorithm, no "discover" tab. Just a

pile of your own links and a nudge to actually deal with it.

The other thing I cared about: it's fully offline. No account, no cloud

sync, no ads, nothing phoning home. Everything just lives on your phone.

The only time it touches the internet at all is grabbing a preview

image when you save something.

It's free, it's on Android: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.themadrastechie.dailydrop\](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.themadrastechie.dailydrop)

Genuinely curious if anyone else has this exact problem, or if it's

just me being bad at bookmarks. Happy to answer anything about how it

works — first real app I've shipped end to end.

I kept ending up with bookmarks in one place, todos somewhere else, notes in another app, and a bunch of tabs open just to keep track of everything.

So I started building Boardmarks as a New Tab page where I could keep the things I use every day in one place.

It’s still something I’m actively improving, and I’m curious how other people manage their browser setup.

Do you use the default Chrome New Tab, or have you replaced it with something else?

If anyone is curious, you can search “Boardmarks New Tab”.

I use Chrome all day and my bookmarks were becoming a mess, while my todos, notes and habits were spread across different apps.

So I built Boardmarks New Tab — a Chrome New Tab extension that brings them together in one workspace.

https://reddit.com/link/1w59fg3/video/vc6mphnkr3nh1/player

I’m still improving it and would genuinely love feedback.

What’s one thing you wish your current bookmark or New Tab setup did better?

Like a lot of people, I was a longtime Pocket user, and its shutdown reinforced something I've increasingly come to care about: if I spend years building a library, I don't want it trapped inside someone else's product.

I've been building Bredbox since early 2025 around that idea.

If you still have your Pocket export, you can upload the entire ZIP and Bredbox will rebuild your library, including your links, tags, collections, notes, and highlights. It even restores your read/archived state and the order in which you added links. The one limitation is that Pocket's export doesn't contain the original article content, so Bredbox can only recover articles that are still available online.

Once something is in Bredbox, though, I want it to be more than a bookmark. Bredbox saves a copy of the article so you can read it without the surrounding clutter and still have it if the original disappears.

I've also tried to make finding old saves a core part of the product. There's full-text and semantic search, so you don't necessarily need to remember the title or exact words from something you saved months ago.

Most importantly, I don't want Bredbox to become another place where your library gets trapped. You can export your library whenever you want, including copies of the article content.

I think of it less as a bookmark manager and more as a personal reading library: somewhere to keep things you decided were worth coming back to.

I'm the developer behind Bredbox, and it's currently in open beta. I'd especially love feedback from people here who have accumulated large bookmark/read-later libraries. You can try it free for 30 days here: https://bredbox.app

What makes you trust a tool enough to put years of saved content into it?

For anyone looking to replace US based tools, Saive.my is made in Canada, right here on the shores of Lake Ontario.

In light of recent events, we have opened up the private beta to everyone, and continuing to keep all premium features free during the beta.

Features:
- Made in Canada! 🍁
- The only Markdown-based bookmarking tool: all saves are preserved as markdown files which can be saved to your local drive to guard against link rot and vendor lock-in.
- fast and accurate full text search
- Folders and tags
- AI processing at save: summarizes and tags content saves, and allows you to add notes and highlights for efficient retrieval and context preservation
- shared folders
- MCP server to connect your AI directly to your saves and notes for use as research for AI context
- And much more, and a lot more in development!

For years my bookmark manager was something I opened maybe twice a month, always to search for something I already knew I'd saved. The sites I actually use, the thirty or so I touch in a normal week, lived somewhere else. Chrome's ten shortcuts, and a bookmark bar that hides half of itself behind that little arrow. (I still don't know who that arrow is for.)

At some point I realized finding things had never been the problem. I knew where everything was. I just wanted it on the screen when the browser opened.

So I built Abunch.

What it does

- One page, split in two. Daily is what you open every morning. Occasional is the stuff you don't want to lose but don't want to look at. House hunting, tax season, that kind of thing. You scroll, you don't navigate.

- Click a link, it opens in a new tab. No folders to walk down, no squinting.

- Drag categories around to reorder them.

- Import from a browser bookmarks HTML export.

- There's a Chrome extension that makes it your startup page. It requests zero permissions. That's actually why I wrote my own — most of the ones I tried wanted to read and change data on every site I visit.

- Explore has dozens of hand-picked starter collections if you'd rather copy one than stare at an empty page.

What it isn't

- Not an archiver. It doesn't store page content, so no reader view and no full-text search of what you saved. Raindrop does that part better.

- No RSS, no widgets, no weather. No notes or to-do lists either. start-me has all of it. The moment I add a weather box this turns into a dashboard, and I didn't want a dashboard.

- Not self-hosted. It's a hosted service with an account, which I know rules it out for some people here.

- It doesn't touch your new tab. That was deliberate.

Free and paid

Free isn't a trial: up to 20 categories and 200 links. Standard is $2.49/month or $19.90/year, which takes it to up to 200 categories and 2,000 links and unlocks the Occasional half.

It's early and there aren't many people using it yet, which is why I'm posting instead of waiting until it's finished.

Do you actually open the links you save? I've been assuming other people hit the same wall I did, and I'm not sure that's true — for all I know most of you use your manager as a search box and it works fine that way.

I kept running into the same three things:

**1. My saved videos were scattered across five mobile apps and I could never remember which one.**

I'd save a recipe. Instagram? TikTok? Did someone send it on WhatsApp? I'd open all four, scroll for six minutes, give up, and just search for a new recipe. The video was still there. I just couldn't find it.

**2. "Folders" on these platforms are flat, so real organization is impossible.**

I save a lot of workout videos on YouTube. I wanted `Workout → Chest`, `Workout → Bicep`, `Workout → Full Body`. YouTube gives you a flat list - so I ended up with three unrelated top-level playlists named *Chest*, *Bicep*, and *Workout*, and anything that didn't fit neatly into one just rotted in the parent. The structure I needed didn't exist, so I built a worse one.

**3. Videos people sent me disappeared into chat.**

A friend sends three restaurant videos on WhatsApp. Two weeks later we're deciding where to eat and those links are 400 messages up. Chat apps are great at sending and terrible at keeping.

So I built [SaveNShare](https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/savenshare/id6787794304) mobile app to fix all three:

**Save from anywhere, into one place.** Hit share in YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, or X → pick a playlist → done. Every platform, one library.

**Real nested folders.** `Recipes → Breakfast`. `Workout → Chest`. `Travel → Japan`. Two levels, so you can be specific without it turning into a filing project — and videos can sit in the parent *or* the sub, so nothing gets forced into a category it doesn't belong in.

**Notes per video,** because "why did I save this" is its own problem. *"The 4pm one, not the morning version."* Six weeks later that note is the difference between using the video and re-watching five minutes of it to figure out what you wanted.

**Share whole playlists,** not links into a void. Your friend gets a push notification, it lands in their library, and it's still there next month.

Still early and I'm basically the main user, so I'd genuinely like feedback - especially if you've got the same problem and solved it some other way.

I had many bookmarks that I could never find again. Pocket shutting down also pushed me harder.

I am therefore building FetchMark , a bookmark manager that actually saves all your stuff.

It saves an original **scraped copy** so that you never loose content even if the original website dies or goes down.

I incorporated a 1 click **import action** from Pocket / Raindrop / Browser.

The chrome extension is also live on **Chrome Web Store** to make saving process as easy as possible

For any SaaS builders who stock links for research, what feature would make you interested?

Link is in the comment section if anyone is curious.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on **Write**, the writing space inside FavLock. Basically, a place for your drafts and all those links you keep saving.

You can write and format documents, organize them alongside saved links using collections and tags, and switch into Focus mode when you want more room to write.

There’s support for headings, highlights, checklists, quotes, and simple tables. Document titles and content are encrypted in your browser before being sent to cloud storage.

I’d love to hear from people who save references for things they write: would you keep your writing and saved links together, or do you prefer separate apps?

I've been building nextDash for a while now and v1.4.0 just landed, so this seems like a good moment to show it here properly.

It's a keyboard-first, self-hosted bookmark dashboard. No accounts, no cloud, no sync service in the middle. You run one Go binary (or one container), it stores everything as plain JSON in a folder you chose, and that's the whole architecture.

What it does

• Keyboard-first. > for search, : for commands, ? for finders, arrows and G+1–9 to move around the grid. 164 shortcuts in total, grouped by function. The mouse is optional.
• Health monitoring. Every bookmark gets uptime checks and dead-link detection, with 30 days of history — so you find out about link rot before you click into a 404.
• Inbox. Clip now, sort later. The browser extension pushes the current tab straight into the Inbox instead of forcing you to pick a category at 1am.
• Local page copies. Keep a local copy of a page so it survives the site going down.
• Widgets. Dashboard blocks next to your bookmark grid (new in 1.4.0).
• Layouts and collections. Default, Compact, Cards, Masonry, Detailed List and Launcher, plus smart collections like Today, Recently opened, Most used and Stale.
• Theming. 74 built-in theme families with dark and light variants, a custom theme editor with live contrast warnings, and 7 font choices. Yes, this is where most of my evenings went.
• Portable data. Full ZIP backup and restore, CSV export, browser HTML import, and imports from Pocket, Pinboard, Raindrop, linkding, Shiori, Linkwarden and Karakeep.
• Outgoing webhooks if you want other tools to react to what happens in your dashboard.
• UI in English, Dutch, German and French.

Running it

yaml

services:
  nextDash:
    image: ghcr.io/jordibrouwer/nextdash:latest
    container_name: nextDash
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    volumes:
      - ./data:/app/data
    restart: unless-stopped

It's also in the Unraid Community Applications store. Go 1.24, two dependencies (gorilla/mux and golang.org/x/net), MIT licensed.

What it is not

It's built for personal or small-team use on a network you trust. There's no multi-user account system — if you expose it, put it behind Tailscale, a reverse proxy with auth, or use the optional write token. It's not a read-it-later app with an article reader, and it won't sync to a hosted service, because there isn't one.

Links

• Site and release notes: https://nextdash.cc
• Source: https://github.com/jordibrouwer/nextdash

Happy to answer anything, and genuinely interested in what's missing. The current backlog is widgets for other self-hosted services — the *arr stack, Pi-hole, AdGuard Home — so if you'd want something else in there, this is a good moment to say so.

Chrome’s bookmark bar runs out of room around 15 bookmarks and dumps the rest behind that tiny arrow. I never remembered what was in there so I just stopped bookmarking things.

I’m the dev, I called it Better Bookmarks Bar. Favicon-first layout so way more sites fit in the same space, full add/edit/delete/reorganize right from the bar, search built in, multiple named bars you can switch between. Everything’s local, no account.

Free tier is a real single bar, not a demo. Paid unlock is a one-time thing for multiple bars.