At some point in 2025 I got tired of fighting with other people's bookmarking tools and just built my own.
I'd tried Pinboard, Pocket, Raindrop - you name it — they all do the job to some degree, but none of them felt quite right. And when you've been a PHP developer since the mid-90s, there's a point where "I could just build this myself" and it became a fun sunday afternoon project.
That project is mymarks.net.
What It Is
Save links, tag them, find them again later. No algorithm deciding what's relevant. No ads. No tracking. Just your bookmarks, organised the way you want them.
It's hosted in the EU, and your data stays there. That matters to me, and I figured it probably matters to others too.
Under the hood it runs on Symfony with a clean frontend built in TailwindCSS. Nothing exotic — just solid tools used well.
Adding Links Is Easy
The whole point of a bookmarking tool is that saving something should take two seconds, not interrupt your flow. There are three ways to do it:
- Firefox extension — grab it from Mozilla Add-ons
- Chrome extension — available in the Chrome Web Store
- Bookmarklet — for every other browser, one click setup
Why I Made It
Honestly? Mostly because I could, and because I wanted something that worked the way I think. But it turned out to be useful enough that I opened it up for anyone to use.
If you're looking for a no-nonsense bookmarking tool that respects your data and doesn't try to be a social network — give it a try.