Betula is a free self-hosted single-user federated bookmark manager for the independent web with archival support. Use it to organize bookmarks, maintain a linklog or a personal web archive.
Features
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Publish bookmarks, along with title and optional description formatted with Mycomarkup.
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Add tags to your bookmarks.
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Bookmarks can be public or private. Share only what you want to share!
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IndieWeb microformats are produced.
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Simple installation: the program is one binary, the collection is one SQLite file, all configuration is done through the web interface.
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Bookmarklet.
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Built-in documentation.
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Searching (local and federated).
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Fediverse support.
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People can follow your Betula from Mastodon, Akkoma, Smithereen and whatnot and receive all new public bookmarks.
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Likes, reposts.
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Subscribe to other Betula servers and read all new bookmarks!
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Archive copies of web pages!
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You can follow other Betula instances.
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Calm user interface (JS optional).
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Miniflux integration.
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Log servers integration.
Development and news
Bouncepaw is the main developer of Betula. See his personal instance. Subscribe from any Fediverse software or with any RSS reader.
Some public automatic lists of Betula servers:
- https://betula.fediverse.observer/list
- https://fedidb.com/software/betula
- https://fedi.wrm.sr/software/betula
Betula packages are not managed by the Betula developers, they are managed by other people. We thank them a lot for their continuing work.
Versions
You are encouraged to always use the latest version. Older releases are not supported.