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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Long-term storage of hyperlinks for future reference? (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I frequently just email myself links to sites or articles I find helpful (usually some permalink to a specific comment buried deep in a thread that was the answer to some technical issue I had). There are probably close to a hundred of them now in my email. Do y'all have a more efficient / effective way to store these and some notes to self with them that won't keep eating up inbox space? Also looking for a solution that isn't OS specific, and accessible on any device via cloud-something. Solutions?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Archivebox might be something to look at. Open source, self hosted, made for archiving websites.
So it not only keeps track of your mass of links, you can also snapshot/archive them when you add them. So if they ever were to go down, you'd still have a copy yourself.
https://archivebox.io/

Though to be fair, I have not actually tried it out myself. I looked at it a few times but I don't personally have a need for it so. Worth taking a look at though.