Add links directly to archive

[ahuse]

I really would like to use linkding as a selfhosted alternative to pinboard.in. But one minor missing feature still holds me back.

I use the "read later"-feature of pinboard to distinguish between articles/websites i want to read at a later time and articles/websites i just want to save (with tags). In linkding the normal view of links would be my "read-later"-list and the archive would be the list of links i just want to safe.

As is see it, it is currently not possible to add links directly to the archive. Would be great, if there is an "add to archive"-option (checkbox) in the bookmarklet-menu or second bookmarklet for adding links to the archive directly.

[bachya]

I assume this would be the case, but the API should also support sending bookmarks directly to the archive.

[ahuse]

Yes, I wrote a small iOS-Shortcuts-Script for adding links to the archive. It works, but would be nice to do the direct archive with a bookmarklet aswell.

[kencx]

Adding bookmarks directly to archive is now supported in the API with #268.

Just include is_archived: true in the payload to /api/bookmarks/.

[ahuse]

This is great. I just updated my iOS-shortcut and it works as expected, plus the shortcut is less complex now.

Only thing missing for me is an option to archive for the bookmarklet.
Maybe a bookmarklet, which autocloses (without the need to hit Save and close), is also a good idea for a quick "read later".

[sissbruecker]

Instead of adding more workarounds to make the "use non-archived bookmarks as read it later list" work, I'd rather put in work on an actual read it later feature. I can see that being useful, and I did use that on Pinboard myself before I realized that I never catch up with all the stuff that I wanted to read.

I did some prototyping on this. The bookmark form would get an additional checkbox:

To make unread bookmarks discoverable, I would probably restructure the navigation to provide filter presets:

The unread bookmarks view would basically just be a special filter in the search query:

And bookmarks marked as unread get an additional action to mark them as read:

You can give this a try using the sissbruecker/linkding:read-it-later Docker image. The image will not modify your database, the unread flag was actually there before, it just hadn't been utilized.