What's this?

This is woomarks, an app that let's you save links in your browser storage, no account needed.

I can already save my bookmarks in my browser.

Well, yeah, but it's not as shiny and colorful and browsable. This design is inspired by Pocket's UI, which was very good for showing a list of articles to read later. Native bookmarking feels more utilitarian, suited for recurrent links, woomarks is more suited for read later links.

What's the bookmarklet?

A bookmarklet is a small program stored as a bookmark in your web browser. When you click the bookmark on your browser bar, the program runs on the webpage you're viewing. woomarks' bookmarklet does 3 things:

• Get the url of the current page you are visiting.
• Get the title too.
• Open woomarks with that information ready to be saved with just 1 click.

How to install the bookmarklet?

OPTION 1. The easiest way, drag this link >>> add woomark <<< to your bookmarks bar.

OPTION 2. Create a new bookmark with "add woomark" as Name and past the next code as URL.

javascript:(function(){
const url = encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);
const title = encodeURIComponent(document.title);
window.open(`http://woomarks.com/?title=${title}&url=${url}`, '_blank');
})();

In Google Chrome

1. Open Chrome.
2. Right-click the bookmarks bar (below the address bar).
   
3. Click “Add page…”.
4. In the dialog:
   • Name: “add woomark".
   • URL: Paste the code.
5. Click Save.
6. Click the bookmarklet from the bookmarks bar to run it.

In Safari

1. Open Safari.
2. Go to View > Show Favorites Bar.
3. Visit any website.
4. Go to Bookmarks > Add Bookmark... or press Cmd+D.
5. Save it to the Favorites Bar.
6. Go to Bookmarks > Edit Bookmarks.
7. Right-click (or Control-click) the new bookmark and choose Edit Address.
8. Replace the URL with the code.
9. Press Enter.

In Microsoft Edge

1. Open Edge.
2. Right-click the favorites bar.
   Tip: Press Ctrl+Shift+B (Windows) or Cmd+Shift+B (Mac) if it's hidden.
3. Select “Add page”.
4. In the dialog:
   • Name: "add woomark".
   • URL: Paste the code.
5. Click Save.
6. Click the bookmarklet from the favorites bar to run it.

Tip

If your browser blocks pasting code starting with javascript:, create a regular bookmark first, then edit the URL manually.

Why are you doing this?

I had all my bookmarks in Pocket and it's shutting down. Same thing happened to del.icio.us. So I decided to keep the web cool and decentralized and make this little thing. Probably this site will disappear too, but the code is open source and you can use it on your own website forever.

Is this free? No ads? What's the catch?

Yes, this is free. I won't put ads, but maybe a link or two to my other projects.

There's no catch, you are not the product. This is just an html page and I don't have backend services or databases as everything is handled by your browser. It's prety cheap to run for now. I could drop a donations link in the future.

Is this open source?

Yes! You can get the code here and install it on your own website if you have one. If you do it and put your links public, feel free to add it to the BOOKMARKS FEDERATION

Are my saved links encrypted?

No. They are saved as text in your browser storage. This is just for saving articles and interesting links, not for anything that requires some security.

Is the content of the links archived?

No.

What's next?

Nothing. There's no roadmap, no business plan, no enshitification. This is all you get.

Who is running this?

Yours truly, Roberto Martinez. I write code as job and I have been doing side projects on the web since 2003.