Adding a Bookmarks Page

đź”— | by Chris McLeod

I mentioned over on The Underground that one thing I wanted to add to my site, to “do more” with it, was a space to collect bookmarks and fun links I com across. Well, I’ve added a quick and dirty “first draft” of the feature over on the new /bookmarks page. It’s even got its own feed you can use to follow along at home.

I’d had the idea for the page a while ago, but the real motivation to get it done came with a recent push to get more people sharing links they’d enjoyed on their website more often (See, for example: Cassidy, Hidde, and Joan). I wanted to have a way of sharing these links that in a way that didn’t need me to dedicate a whole blog post to them[1], giving me the opportunity to be more spontaneous about it.

Fun(?) Technical Notes:

When I add a bookmark it should trigger a webmention to the page in question (if it supports webmentions), and if the other site supports microformats then it should show up as an IndieWeb “bookmarkOf”. This was by far the most fiddly bit to get right.

In terms of adding bookmarks - I’m using a combination of IndieKit and a “bookmark on my site” iOS shortcut I made using the guide I wrote a few years back: IndieWeb Sharing with iOS Shortcuts . Hurrah for blog archives, otherwise I’d have had to figure this out again from scratch! I have a few minor niggles to iron out, but adding bookmarks is overall pretty easy for me to do.

  1. I am thinking about automating some sort of “weekly round-up post” that will include bookmarks + other content I add to the site. But not yet, as I don’t quite have everything in place as I’d like it. ↩︎