📮 Briefkasten

Self-hosted bookmarking application. Works with any Prisma compatible database (MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, etc.)

Cloud Instance: briefkasten.vercel.app
Docs: briefkasten-docs.vercel.app

📸 Screenshots

🎩 Features

Save by Browser Extension
Automatic title and description extraction
Drag-and-drop URLs on page to save
Keyboard shortcuts
Organise by categories and tags
Import and export bookmarks from standard HTML format
Bookmark image fetching background job
Multiple views
Fulltext search
REST API
OAuth + Email magic link login

🧺 Prerequisites

To self-host this application, you'll need the following thins:

Server / hosting platform for a Next.js application (i.e. Vercel / Netlify)
For OAuth login, a developer account at any one of the providers supported by NextAuth.js
Database that works with Prisma (i.e. MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, etc.)
Image hosting space (i.e. Supabase / ImageKit / Cloudinary) (optional)

These are all relatively straight forward, other than the image hoster. This was chosen to avoid putting the images in the database. The example application at briefkasten.vercel.app is using Supabase Storage, but any other similar provider like Cloudinary or a simple S3 Bucket would also do the job. I chose Supabase, because they have an easy to use SDK, a decent free tier, and I was already using their Postgres service.

After you've got an account setup at all of the above providers, or have your own infrastructure ready to go, you can continue on to the next steps below.

🚀 Getting Started

Clone the repository

$ git clone git@github.com:ndom91/briefkasten.git && cd briefkasten

Install dependencies

$ pnpm install

Copy the .env.example file, and fill in your copy of the environment variables.

$ cp .env.example .env
$ vim .env

In this environment variables file, make sure to fill in any of the keys / secrets needed for the cloud providers you selected for the components above.

Start the server!

// dev
$ pnpm run dev

// prod
$ pnpm run build
$ pnpm start

🕸 Related

📲 Save from Android Share Menu

With this open-source application HTTP Shortcuts, you can create a "Share Menu" item which executes a POST request with dynamic input, i.e. a web page's URL and title. This makes it super easy to share items from your phone to Briefkasten! More information in the docs.

🌍 Browser Extension

There is a companion browser extension in the works which you can use to add websites to your vault while browsing the web. It can be found at ndom91/briefkasten-extension. It is currently not published on any of the Browser Extension Stores, but can be built locally and loaded as a development extension in any Chromium based browser. More details in that repository.

🧑‍🏭 Screenshot Job

There is also a background job to fill in bookmarks which do not have a valid image. It can be found in the ndom91/briefkasten-scrape repository. This job runs every 2 hours in a Github Action and processes 10 bookmarks at a time.

👷 Contributing

This project is open to any and all contributions! Please stick to the ESLint / Prettier settings and I'll be happy to take a look at your issue / PR 😀

📝 License

MIT

TheAnachronism/briefkasten