Hookmark 6.8 now available, with support for Linkding bookmarking service

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Hookmark Version 6.8 (6187; Integration v. 358) release is now available for download, and as an in-app update.

This release introduces support for the linkding bookmarking service, fixes bugs and has other improvements.

Linkding is a free, self-hosted, praiseworthy alternative to Pinboard (and to Pocket, Instapaper, and GoodLinks.) Linkding is particularly relevant because Pinboard has been stagnant for many years. Some features gleaned from its home page:

  • Focused. Optimized for readability, allowing to quickly add and find bookmarks without distractions.
  • Customizable. Features can be enabled or disabled as needed, adjustable UI through a number of settings.
  • Metadata. Automatically fetches titles, descriptions, icons and preview images of bookmarked websites.
  • Archiving. Automatically create snapshots of bookmarked websites, either as local HTML file or on the Internet Archive
  • Bulk editing. Apply any operation to a selection of bookmarks or the whole collection
  • Import / Export. Import and export bookmarks in the Netscape HTML format.
  • Multi-User. Supports multiple users, with the ability to share bookmarks with other users or guests.

and more.

Hookmark automatically bookmarks any resource it touches through its Copy Link, Copy As Markdown Link, and Hook to Copied Link commands. You can now configure Hookmark to automatically add Linkding bookmarks to any bookmark of a webpage that you touch with Hookmark. Hookmark won’t add non-http(s) bookmarks to bookmarking services. Use Hookmark’s Setting > Services tab and the Tags settings tab to configure integration with bookmarking services like Linkding.

Gratitude

Thanks to Brett Terpstra who requested integration with linkding.

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Thank you for the latest version. Could you make this behavior optional please: " When Make Hookmark File command is applied in Finder, the new Hookmark file is stored in the current folder rather than in the Hookmark Files folder." Perhaps something similar to the Notes folder configuration in Settings.

I personally rather it be placed in the same place, as opposed to new behavior, as I have already set my workflows to handle hookmark file.

Thank you again.

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OK that makes sense. We will do that

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Thanks so much for the linkding integration! Is this available on Setapp already?

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Hi, we have submitted it to Setapp for review and release.

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Thank you - and Brett - for the integration with Linkding. Very helpful.

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It is now live on Setapp.

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Hi there - I am trying to add my self-hosted linkding service.

I am using the URL for the service on my LAN and the API token for the user…and getting

Unable to verify account name or API token.

…and when I click “retrieve your API token here” I get

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I had the same problem with self-hosted linkding on Raspberry pi. Try adding http:// in front. That worked for me.

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Thank you, @mcmorgan .

Yes, it assumes the host URL starts with http. Hookmark is using linkding’s rest API.

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The issue I ran into with local hosting of linkding: when I added linkding from Settings > Services, Hookmark found the local IP but did not prefix it with http:// Once the protocol was added, it found the local address including port :9090. Works a charm.