Ask HN: How to save bookmarks locally including searchable content?

I use SingleFile [0] in the browser:

"SingleFile is a Web Extension (and a CLI tool) compatible with Chrome, Firefox (Desktop and Mobile), Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, Brave, Waterfox, Yandex browser, and Opera. It helps you to save a complete web page into a single HTML file."

I really like and often use the option to highlight text and add notes to a web page before saving it locally. After saving the file you can easily do a full-text search because, e.g., both macOS Finder and Windows Explorer index HTML files by default.

[0] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

Decade ago I just copy-pasted the page/content of the page to OneNote. Worked good enough.

A couple years ago I discovered Bookstack's [0] editor was capable to keep the most of the formatting for the Word documents and most of the sane pages, looks like it still works [1][2]

It didn't manage to save the whole old.reddit.com page, but I tried this on a official demo, of course it could be just limited resources.

And of course there is Evernote [3]

[0] https://www.bookstackapp.com/

[1] https://imgur.com/a/VYvaqnl

[2] https://imgur.com/a/rUcP9ov

[3] https://evernote.com/features/webclipper

I’ve not had the chance to try this personally, but have seen ArchiveBox [0] mentioned frequently as a nice bookmark/history archive system.

[0] https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

I'm building my own solution because nothing like this existed to my knowledge.

https://imgur.com/a/qY6GQSj

It currently supports webpages, pdfs, personal notes, images and twitter.

Eagle Filer is really good for this on Mac![1] (Not affiliated)

[1]: https://c-command.com/eaglefiler/

You could self-host wallabag:

https://www.wallabag.it/en/features

i remember there used to be good firefox plugin to save content offline can't remmber its name . there should be simple web extention that does this to save articales offline

I use Zotero for that.