Grimoire - Bookmark manager for the wizards 🧙
Grimoire - Bookmark manager for the wizards 🧙
The time has come to unveil Grimoire, a bookmark manager designed specifically for everyone who is missing a little bit of magic touch when it comes to organizing their bookmarks.
Its mission is simple: to help you add, process, and organize your bookmarks in a way that makes sense.
Reasoning behind the project
I've always struggled with organizing my bookmarks. Even though I tried many options, none of them really appealed to me. The built-in bookmark managers in browsers were too basic and didn't allow me to organize my bookmarks in a way that made sense to me. The most popular external bookmark managers have been too simple, too complicated, or too expensive for what they offer.
What I liked the most was the idea of having a bookmark manager with a relational database I had access to. This would let me retrieve my bookmarks in any way I wanted, and I could easily add new features in the future. I've searched for a solution that would allow me to do that, but I couldn't find anything that would fit my needs.
And that's how the idea of the Grimoire was born. I wanted to create a bookmark manager that would be simple to use, but also powerful enough to let me organize my bookmarks in a way that made sense to me. Moreover, I wanted to take SvelteKit and PocketBase for a spin, and this seemed like a perfect opportunity to do so.
How it looks now
Starting with v0.1.0, Grimoire has most of the basic features you would expect from a bookmark manager:
- bookmarks:
- can be added, viewed, edited, and deleted
- can be organized into categories and tagged
- metadata, like title, description, HTML content, favicon, and image, is fetched from the website and stored locally
- can have notes added to them
- bookmark list:
- display in a grid or list view
- can be searched by title, description, URL, and tags
- filtering by category, tag, and and more
- sort by date added, domain, and more
- users:
- can sign up and sign in
- all bookmarks, categories, and tags are private to the user
- admin panel:
- is used to manage users and see their bookmark, category, and tag counts
- can be used to preview most of PocketBase settings
- other:
- it's dockerized, so it's easy to run it locally or deploy it to your server
- all the benefits of a self-hosted PocketBase installation, like scheduled backups (local and to S3), high performance, and data security
- dark mode, because dark wizardry requires darkness
- responsive design as magic should be accessible to everyone, everywhere
- early and experimental support for AI-powered features (more on that in the future), like automatic tag suggestions
- and that's just the beginning!
What's next
It's still a work in progress, but I'm happy with the functionality provided so far. You can expect more useful features, like a way to import bookmarks from other services and export them to most popular file formats, public profiles, better admin panel, AI-powered features - just to name a few. For more details, check out the roadmap.
How to get it up and running
If you want to try it out, you can run it locally!
Contributors are more than welcome
To make Grimoire even better, I need your help! Don't be a stranger and check out the contributing guidelines today!
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2"Cross-site POST form submissions are forbidden"
Every time I try to log in with the info i put into the .env file. Doing "sign up" from the app does not do anything.
2I've been poking around trying to deploy this as well.
You'll want to edit the Dockerfile and make sure your origin is set to whatever url you'll be accessing grimoire from.
However, even doing this, I'm not able to login even when I manual inject a user into pocketbase.
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I try to test this out but having problems setting it up properly?
I set an Email and Password in all of the .env files and started the container with docker-compose up. But neither the admin panel or the normal login accept the credentials.
Any help please?
2A new tool to try out on Monday. Thank you for this
2!remindMe 4h
1Have always felt the same way about bookmark managers, we need one to rule them all.
Thought about a semantic search? I always end up looking for bookmarks but don't remember the website and I haven't stored it in an organised way
1Would love if "bookmarking" also ripped the text off the page for full searchability
1Grimoire uses https://metascraper.js.org/ for fetching metadata and website content as HTML and also text. Searching is not yet enabled for the latter, but it may change in the near future!
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But not like The One Ring!
1😂 very true
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This looks great! Been debating between all the different bookmark managers available. Definitely going to give this a go.
1This looks great! I'll fully migrate from raindrop.
1Haha same!
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Love it but it's absolutely overkill. What stack are you using? I saw svelte and tailwindcss.
Growing up with the Internet seeing today's 'modern' approaches when it comes to Web development the requirements grow exponentially and that's frustrating because the barrier of entrance gets ridiculously high.
Even though a lot of concepts have been invented, none feel 'natural' to me, it's almost as if the clunkyness of language design (c, c++ etc) has been carried over to the modern webapp era
1Don't forget that the modern approaches also make it much quicker and easier for someone to make something.
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Great! Thanks for sharing! Definitely trying it out :)
1Any advantages to this over Wallabag?
I don't mean that in a confrontational way, this looks great! But I'd rather force myself to find a good reason before I replace Wallabag with it so soon after spending the effort getting it set up :P
1Remindme! 4days
1The code quality is so nice OP Very well done and thanks a lot!!
1Thank you! I hope it will allow for smooth contributions for anyone willing to help make Grimoire better 🙂
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I have yet to find “the answer” to bookmarks so I am interested in checking this out.
1Is there a browser extension we can use with this or a plan for one? Currently I use wallabag but I think this may be a good replacement as long as it has some sort of browser implementation
1Most definitely there will be an official browser extension. Grimoire is just meant to be accompanied by one! 🪄
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Are you planning to add ldap authentication?
1The project relies heavily on PocketBase, a conscious decision. Although it could, and maybe even should, be abstracted later, the app will be limited in the authentication department by it.
In short: I can’t guarantee LDAP support in foreseeable future :(
1Pocketbase supports oauth, do you expose adding custom providers (possibly in the .env.docker)? In line with the other guy, all my users are already setup elsewhere. It's increasingly a nonstarter to have a) a wasted identity provider and b) redo all this work for every new app.
Although it is a nice step up to have multi-user support at all.
1I don't know why i got downvoted. I asked because it is hard to keep up with users' credentials with local user db, especially with other selfhosted services.
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What a coincidence! I know someone that's working in a very similar solution: a bookmarks organizer with a rdbms backend.
Good luck!
1I have quesion for you. Why do you use:
git clone git@github.com:goniszewski/grimoire.gitinstead of:
git clone https://github.com/goniszewski/grimoire.git1It has many advantages over the HTTPS one. And also was always the preferred way of interacting with remote repositories by teams I worked with in my professional career.
I think this comment sums it up nicely: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/s/Ecg3lm5sfV
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Looks great, I literally installed Shiori 2 days ago but can see myself moving to this. The one feature I'd love to see that's broken on Shiori is a browser extension to make adding bookmarks faster and easier.
1This is exactly what I needed
1Remindme! 90days
1Looks cool!
1This is what I was looking for! one thing I would like is having the ability of having the bookmarks in the regular bookmark tab to easily access them as if I was using the browser. Is that possible?
1Damn! Looks very impressive! I like the design so much!
1It’s the magic of awesome DaisyUI we’re using! 🌼
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Looks great, does it really “require” docker? Will it be difficult to run it from an lxc container?
1A great question! Frankly, it can be launched via any JS package manager + PocketBase executable, so it shouldn’t be that hard.
That being said, at the beginning I would like to keep it simple and stick with Docker.
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Remindme! 30days
1It has not been possible to install it on a raspi4 (2GB) it stays installing forever.. To be more specific, at this point:
=> [grimoire build 1/2] RUN --mount=type=cache,id=pnpm,target=/pnpm/store pnpm install --frozen-lockfile 429.3s1I know that making your own image can be a real challenge when the output has almost 1GB. In next 24h I will try to put some images on Docker Hub.
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