blakewatson/bookmarks

This is a NodeJS app that mostly shuttles JSON back and forth between the frontend application and the file system. Here is a rough explanation of how to set up the app.

Once you have your credentials in the .env file and your initial data files created, you are ready to install packages and serve the app:

Mainly because I just wanted to. Also because it seems like the Pinboard archival mechanism hasn’t been working on my account for a little while now. And I like the idea of archiving them on Wayback Machine.

Pinboard had sort of become the place where my bookmarks go to die. I thought making my own tool just for me might incentivize me to keep better bookmarks and also revisit them. I guess we'll see.

No, probably not. I made it for me. But if you want to you are welcome to. That is why I wrote this README. It is offered as-is tho.

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