I often find myself browsing videos on different invidious instances or posts on various lemmy instances, and I would love to be able to create a “watch later” list or a “favorite” list that works across all of them. I don’t want to have to manually import and export these lists between different instances, either, like I have to do on lemmy, invidious, etc.
I’m currently using a single bookmarks folder to keep track of everything, but I don’t like this because it’s a mess. I’d like to be able to create two or three different lists for different groups of websites, so that I can easily find what I’m looking for. For example, a favorite list for reddit, tumblr, etc, another favorite list and a watch for later list for invidious instances, and other lists for other sites.
Is there any way to achieve this? I’m open to using browser extensions, third-party apps, or any other solutions that might be out there. I would prefer a free solution, but I’m willing to consider paid options as well.
A bookmark can only exist in one folder at a time, whereas I want to be able to add a single item to multiple lists (e.g., both “favorites” and “watch later”).
I believe the closest to what I’m looking for are Raindrop.io, Pocket, Wallabag, Hoarder, etc.
https://github.com/hoarder-app/hoarder?tab=readme-ov-file#alternatives
I use Manjaro Linux and Firefox.
That is literally what browser bookmarks are meant for.
Would bookmark folders suffice for organizing?
Or go retro and have a tree of bookmarks as an unordered list, with the top level of the tree as the folders or categories.
A “list of videos to watch later” can quickly become a dreaded multiple hour homework assignment. My “favorites” list on the steaming service is a graveyard of movies I thought I wanted to watch.
I think that was the initial idea behind Pocket but no idea how it has developed since then.
Yes you can achieve this with Pocket or Wallabag, a FOSS alternative.
Wallabag also have an automatic tag feature that can add tag based on the URL, so it would be possible to make different reading lists as you suggested: https://doc.wallabag.org/en/user/configuration/tagging_rules.html
The many tools around this are interesting. “Web clipping” I think is the generic phrase for it. I got kind of deep into it from of a desire to wrangle ADHD, and a bit of datahoarding and knowledge mapping. Omnivore is one I liked for text articles, and there’s super niche applications like Zotero.
I like to use Hypothes.is for annotating stuff I read in depth
Yeah, I was gonna say Pocket does this pretty well. You just have to Copy+Paste links.
Organize you bookmarks? It’s a simple folder hierarchy, not rocket science.
Save the videos, put them on a NAS and use a fancy frontend like Infuse to view your collection.
I thought public Invidious instances stopped working?
You could save them to an RSS Reader
Just write the URL down on a piece of paper. Break it out when you have some time to kill.
I use tabs on Firefox and move the websites/videos that I want to read/view later on a specific tab.
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not sure what you mean by across different websites but imdb and letterboxd do this or any todo list app.
StuffToWatch.txt
