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Welcome to the Deep Dive.

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First off, before we jump in, a big thank you

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to our supporter, Safe Server.

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Absolutely.

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They handle hosting for software,

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kind of like what we're talking about today.

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And they really support digital transformation.

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You can check them out at www.safeserver.de.

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Great support.

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Really helps make this possible.

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It really does.

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OK, so let's be real for a second.

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How many browser tabs do you have open right now?

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Like, honestly?

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Huh, don't ask.

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Dozens, maybe.

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It gets messy.

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Right, dozens, hundreds.

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And your bookmarks.

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Is it like this perfectly organized library,

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or is it more of a digital junk drawer?

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Definitely leads towards junk drawers sometimes.

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Things go in.

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But finding them again, that's the challenge.

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Exactly.

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Finding that one link you know you saved,

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it feels impossible sometimes.

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It's that classic information overload we all deal with.

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It really is the modern struggle, isn't it?

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You find so much good stuff, online articles, tools,

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tutorials, but actually keeping track of it,

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retrieving it when you need it, are standard ways,

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like browser bookmarks.

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They just don't quite cut it after a while.

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They really don't.

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And that feeling of knowing you found something amazing

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and now it's just gone.

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Yeah, lost in the digital ether.

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Which is exactly why today we're digging

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into a tool designed to tackle that specific problem.

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It's called LinkedIn.

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We've been looking at its GitHub repository,

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the official website, trying to figure out, you know,

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what's the deal?

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Is it actually helpful?

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Especially if you're maybe new to managing links seriously

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or even this whole self-hosting idea.

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Yeah, our goal here is really to unpack what LinkedIn is,

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try to cut through some of the tech speak

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and explain why you might want something like this

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instead of just, you know, your browser's bookmark bar.

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We want to highlight the features

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that make organizing easier

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and maybe make that term self-hosted

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seem a bit less scary.

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Definitely.

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We want you to see how it could actually help you,

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you know, capture and organize

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all that valuable stuff you find.

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Exactly.

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From chaos to clarity, hopefully.

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Perfect.

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So let's start with the what.

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It's called a self-hosted bookmark manager.

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Okay, bookmark manager.

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Simple enough, it manages bookmarks.

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But self-hosted, that one sounds a bit technical.

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What does it mean in simple terms here?

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That's a great question

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because self-hosted can definitely sound intimidating.

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But the core idea, it's actually pretty simple.

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Just means you run the software yourself

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on hardware you control.

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Instead of relying on, say, Google Servers

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or some other company's cloud service,

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think of it like owning your own filing cabinet

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in your office versus renting a small locker

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in a giant storage unit complex.

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Ah, okay, so the filing cabinet is mine.

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I put my stuff in it.

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I control who accesses it.

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Exactly.

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Your data, your links, in this case, stays with you.

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You're in control.

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It's not on someone else's platform.

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Got it.

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So I own the data, I run the software,

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and it's specifically for links,

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unlike my browser, which does a million things.

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That's precisely.

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It's purpose-built.

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And the name, Linkding.

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It's apparently quite literal.

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We found in the docs, it's just Link plus Ding,

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which is German for thing.

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A link thing?

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Basically, a thing for your links.

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Simple name, simple tool.

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That seems to be the philosophy.

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I like that.

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No fancy jargon, just link thing.

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Okay, so why use this specific link thing

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instead of just soldiering on with browser bookmarks?

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What's the real pain point it solves,

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especially if you're just starting to feel overwhelmed?

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Well, you touched on it earlier.

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Browser bookmarks just don't scale well, do they?

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Folders get nested like crazy.

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Searching can be hit or miss.

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Finding something from six months ago is a nightmare.

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The sources really emphasize that link thing

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is built to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up.

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Minimal and fast, okay.

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It's designed to cut through the clutter.

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It's not trying to be your email client or your calendar.

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It's laser focused on making, saving,

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and finding links really efficient.

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Okay, that focus makes sense, simplicity and efficiency.

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How does it actually deliver on that?

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Let's talk features.

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What are the key things that make it work?

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Well, the first thing you notice, I think,

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is the user interface, the UI.

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It's deliberately clean,

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really optimized for just reading your links.

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When you open it up,

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there aren't tons of buttons or ads or menus everywhere.

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The focus is just on your bookmarks,

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making it easy to scan or search.

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A clean interface.

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Yeah, that alone sounds appealing

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compared to some browser bookmark managers I've seen.

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But, okay, even with a clean list,

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if you have thousands of links, it's still a lot.

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How does it help you organize them

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so you can actually find stuff?

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Right, and this is where it really differs

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from just using folders.

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Linking uses tags.

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Tags, okay.

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Yeah, instead of trying to force a link

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into one single folder,

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you can add multiple tags to it.

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So say you save an article about, I don't know,

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baking sourdough bread with ancient grains.

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Okay, niche.

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Ah, yeah, you could tag a baking sourdough recipe,

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ancient grains, maybe food science,

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whatever makes sense to you.

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Ah, I see.

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So later, if I just want any recipe,

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If I'm specifically interested in sourdough,

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I use that tag.

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And if I want that specific article,

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maybe I combine sourdough and ancient grains.

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Exactly, it gives you loads more flexibility.

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You're not stuck in that rigid,

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one place only folder structure

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that often doesn't really capture what a link is about.

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Yeah, that makes way more sense

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than trying to decide if it goes in recipes

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or baking or some crazy sub sub folder.

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Right, tags let you slice and dice your collection

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in multiple ways.

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And that clean UI makes it easy to see your tags

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and filter by them.

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The whole point is finding stuff again, quickly.

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Effective retrieval, not just saving.

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Okay, got it.

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Now there was another feature mentioned in the sources

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that really stood out to me,

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something browsers definitely don't do,

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archiving the content.

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What's that about?

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Why is that important?

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Ah, yes, this is I think a really key differentiator.

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Websites aren't permanent.

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Pages change, articles get moved behind paywalls,

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entire sites just vanish.

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If you only save the link, the URL,

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you're just saving an address to something

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that might not be there tomorrow

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or might look completely different.

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Okay, so how does LinkedIn help with?

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It offers automatic archiving.

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When you save a bookmark,

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you can set it up to also save a copy of that page's content.

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A copy?

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How?

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The docs say it can do it a couple of ways.

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It can save a local HTML file,

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basically a snapshot of the page

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as it looked when you saved it,

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stored right alongside your bookmark data.

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Whoa.

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Or you can configure it to submit the page

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to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine,

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which helps preserve it publicly too.

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Either way, you're saving the information itself,

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not just the address.

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Okay, that's actually a game changer.

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So my save link isn't just this fragile pointer anymore,

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it's backed up by the actual content now.

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It makes your collection much more resilient

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against link rot and disappearing content.

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All right, that's huge.

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So we know what it is, why it's useful,

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better organization, finding things,

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keeping the content safe.

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But how easy is it to actually get links into LinkedIn

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while you're just browsing the web?

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Because if adding links is a pain,

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nobody's gonna use it, right?

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That's a super important point.

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Usability for saving is critical.

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And they seem to have put thought into this.

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The main ways mentioned are browser extensions.

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Okay, standard stuff.

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Yeah, extensions for Firefox and Chrome.

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You're on a page, you click the LinkedIn button

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in your toolbar, add your tags,

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maybe a quick note, hit save, done.

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Nice and simple, click tags save.

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Pretty much.

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And for other browsers, or if you don't want an extension,

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they also have a bookmarklet.

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A bookmarklet.

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Remind me what that is again.

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It's basically a little snippet of code you save,

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just like a regular bookmark in your browser's toolbar.

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When you're on a page you wanna save,

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you click that bookmarklet and it pops up the dialog

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to save the link to your linking instance.

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Ah, okay.

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So it works almost anywhere you can have bookmarks.

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Exactly, very versatile.

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They also mentioned it can be installed

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as a progressive web app, a PWA,

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which means you can kind of install the website

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like an app on your computer or phone for easier access.

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Multiple easy ways to capture links then.

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Good.

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What about the info for the link itself?

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Like the title, description, do I have to type all that in?

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Oh no, thankfully.

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That'd be tedious.

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It automatically fetches the page title

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and it tries to grab a description from the page metadata

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and usually the little site icon, the Faticom too.

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Okay, cool.

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So it does the basic legwork for you.

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Yeah, less manual entry makes saving quicker.

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Definitely.

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And I think I saw something about sharing links too.

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Yes, that's in there.

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If you set up LinkedIn to allow multiple users,

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maybe for a family or a small team,

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you can share bookmarks between users on that instance.

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And you can also create public share links

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if you want to share a specific bookmark

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or maybe a tag with people who don't have an account.

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Got it, useful options.

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Okay, let's circle back to that self-hosted thing.

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We know what it means now running it yourself,

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never run their own server software before,

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even if it is designed to be easy,

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it still sounds a bit daunting.

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How does LinkedIn make setup easier for a beginner?

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That's a totally fair concern.

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on making this accessible.

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The key piece of technology that makes it way simpler

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than it used to be is something called Docker.

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Docker.

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Okay, heard of it, but still sounds a bit technical.

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Can we break that down simply?

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Let's try.

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Think of Docker like a standardized shipping container

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for software.

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Instead of you having to get the software,

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then figure out all the libraries it needs,

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install a specific database,

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configure everything just right.

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Docker packages,

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linking in all its dependencies together

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into one neat box, one container.

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which pretty straightforward in most systems.

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And then you basically just tell Docker,

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hey, run this LinkedIn container.

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It handles all the internal setup bits for you.

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Okay, that's a much better analogy

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than setting up servers in the basement.

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It's like pre-packaged software

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that just needs the Docker player to run.

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Kind of, yeah.

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It dramatically lowers the barrier to entry

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for running software like this.

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And because LinkedIn itself is designed to be lightweight,

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it uses a simple file-based database called Syncolite.

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So you don't need to set up

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a separate complex database server.

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The sources suggest it's also pretty low maintenance

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once you have it up and running.

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Low maintenance, music to my ears,

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especially for someone just dipping their toes

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into self-hosting.

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Exactly.

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And what about getting started?

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If I have years of messy bookmarks in my browser,

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can I bring them over easily?

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Oh, absolutely.

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That's essential.

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It supports importing bookmarks from the standard format

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that all browsers use for export to Netscape HTML format.

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Okay, good.

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So you just export from Chrome, Firefox, whatever you use,

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and then import that file straight into LinkedIn.

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It gets all your history in one place.

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And you can export back out, too, if you ever need to.

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No lock-in.

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Crucial.

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Nobody wants to re-bookmark hundreds of things manually.

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Okay, we focused a lot on the basics,

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the beginner experience, which was the goal.

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But the sources hinted there's more under the hood

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if you need it.

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Briefly, what else can it do?

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Yeah, without getting lost in the weeds,

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it does have more advanced features.

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Things like bulk editing, changing tags,

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or deleting lots of bookmarks at once.

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You can add notes to bookmarks using Markdown,

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which is nice for adding more context.

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And we mentioned the multi-user support.

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And for the technically inclined, there's a REST API,

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which means other applications or scripts

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can interact with your LinkedIn data.

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So it starts simple, but there's room to grow

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if your needs become more complex.

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It doesn't force the complexity on you upfront.

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That sounds like a really good balance.

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Scales with you.

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All right.

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Okay, so zooming back out then,

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what's the big picture?

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The core appeal of linkless sending

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for someone feeling swamped by links.

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I think the real appeal is about bringing

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intentionality and control

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back to how you manage online information.

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It offers a simple, fast, and importantly reliable way

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to capture things you find valuable

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and actually retrieve them later.

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And by being self-hosted,

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especially using something like Docker that makes it easier,

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it puts you in control of that data and that process.

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It helps you move from just letting potentially useful

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information wash over you and disappear

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to actively building your own

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searchable personal knowledge base.

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Building your own knowledge base.

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I really like that framing.

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It's more than just bookmarked.

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It's about curating your slice of the internet's

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useful information.

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Okay, well, as we wrap up this deep dive,

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maybe here's a final thought for you, the listener,

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to chew on.

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Given how much information flies past us every single day,

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how much truly valuable knowledge are you encountering

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that you're not effectively capturing?

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Are you actively building your personal library of insights?

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Or are you mostly just letting the pages turn?

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It's definitely something worth thinking about.

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Indeed it is.

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And that brings us to the end of our look at LinkedIn.

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Once again, a huge thank you to Safe Server.

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That's www.safeserver.de for supporting the show.

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They help make hosting software like LinkedIn possible

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and support digital transformation.

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Thanks, Safe Server.

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Thanks for tuning into the deep dive.