Arcmark
Your bookmarks, attached to any browser as a sidebar
208 followers
Your bookmarks, attached to any browser as a sidebar
208 followers
A native macOS bookmark manager that attaches to any browser window as a sidebar. Open source, free, and local-first. Heavily inspired by Arc Browser's sidebar.
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@fmerian Thank you Flo! 🙏
@curiouskitty I'd say the biggest trade-off of not having an account is that I can't easily sync bookmarks between devices. It's possible to rely on iCloud and the Apple ecosystem a bit to bring saved bookmarks to the iOS app (which I also might build later), but it doesn't look straightforward
Right now I'm mainly adding more imports so that it's easier to try Arcmark (so far I have Arc and Chrome imports). But the format in which Arcmark stores the data is completely open and accessible to anyone. So I hope this way people won't be locked out at all because it's just a JSON file that can be parsed easily.
@chrismessina Thanks, Chris! Yeah that's a tricky problem. For now, it won't work when the browser is in full-screen, unfortunately. But there are some workarounds I could build in the future: for example, force enable the Split View feature when you launch the browser in full screen. This way macOS would enforce the window to be next to browser.
@chrismessina Just tested and it does work this way when you place the Arcmark window manually inside the full-screen container, but a better UX would be for the app to detect full-screen mode and do that automatically :)
@geek_1001 right on — maybe make it autohide, and then pop-over when you hover near the edge of the screen?
Would you mind sharing what was your inspiration to buid Arcmark?
@lisadziuba my main motivation was to find a way to finally jump off Arc. I got so used to the structure of having a dedicated workspace for each project in a sidebar as a way to organize bookmarks/links that I couldn't have done that before. With Arcmark it's much easier for me to try other browsers now
Also, building Arcmark was my excuse to test the latest Codex models more heavily 😅
@lisadziuba @geek_1001 did you want to jump off Arc? Or was it forced by their lack of updates?
WOW, good luck with the launch! I wonder how long it took to build it?
@valia_havryliuk Thank you so much Valia! 🙏
In total it took me a little over a week, a few hours per day. Definitely faster than I would have expected 🙂
Visually, it looks cool. But what if I have too many bookmarks? Willit not be so much cluttered?
@busmark_w_nika I'd usually split them into separate workspaces, so each workspace is extremely focused on a specific purpose/project.
For example, I started way back with only the "Work" workspace where I'd place all the work-related links, but then it got a bit out of hand, so I split it into a dedicated workspace per project.
In Arc I had 35 workspaces and around ~2000 links in total 😅
@geek_1001 But some of my bookmarks are not only for one workspace, they are aligning with more niches :D
@busmark_w_nika yeah, fair point :)
It's a tricky challenge to solve. I was also thinking of adding an API/CLI for AI agents to help organize the bookmarks directly in the app. For example, when you have a bookmark that's related to multiple workspaces, I think it's fine to duplicate it in both workspaces as well
I'm thinking of workspaces more like a "desk for everything I need to work on specific thing"
The sidebar-attached approach is genuinely clever. The problem with most bookmark managers is the friction of opening a separate app or tab to access them, which kills the workflow. Having it follow the browser window natively removes that friction completely. Open source and free is the right call for a utility like this too. Congrats on the launch!
@pukha Thank you so much, David!
Yeah, I felt exactly the problem you're describing. When the bookmark manager is detached from the workflow it turns into a pile of links that you never look at