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Launch Time

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Robert Goniszewski
Robert Goniszewski
Creator of Grimoire

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!