MyDeck Console, a Readeck companion app for bookmark repair

[NateEaton]

Once I stepped back from active development on MyDeck and focused on using it, all of the broken bookmarks in my Readeck library, ones that failed during extraction when I imported everything I had accumulated over many years in Pocket, became my next area of focus.

The creator of Readeck feels strongly that once created a bookmark should be immutable. I completely understand and agree, but it's obvious that I'm not alone in having lots of broken bookmarks and interested in having an alternative in which those can be recovered.

MyDeck Console is my attempt at providing a solution for this need. It is currently available in pre-release. Developed as a progressive web app (PWA) for ease of use across a variety of platforms, including desktop, browsers and most mobile devices, it is available for server-side installation as a Go executable.

Intended for use by users running a self-hosted instance of Readeck, just install and configure the Go executable on the same server as Readeck, access it through a browser and you are ready to work on repairing your broken bookmarks.

The application uses a repair flow involving cloning and deprecating bookmarks with full control over the disposition of replaced bookmarks (archive or delete). Replacement options include archive.org snapshots, web results identified using the Brave Search API or manually entered URLs.

Since MyDeck supports automatically displaying content when Readeck extraction failed but the original URL is still valid, MyDeck Console also supports hiding bookmarks from the triage list using Ignore action.

See README and User Guide for more information. Please use the Issue page on the MyDeck Console repo if you run into problems or the Discussions page there if you have questions or suggestions.

[NateEaton]

@Alanon202, @copperfeesh,

We had a great time in Rome but during down time I developed another app, one that is directly addressing one of my personal pain points, broken bookmarks. If you have any yourself, is be very interested to hear your feedback on how it works for you.

Regards,
Nathan