Reminiscence

Spec sheet

Purpose

Reminiscence is a self-hosted bookmark and archive manager described as a hybrid of a bookmark manager and a personal wayback machine.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Deployment

The project documents installation with Python and a Docker Compose setup, and describes the application as self-hosted.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

API

A REST API supports token login, adding URLs, listing saved URLs and directories, and logging out.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Integrations

Media archiving uses configurable third-party download managers; curl and wget are listed as defaults, and youtube-dl is given as an option.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Security

The reader removes JavaScript from the original archived format for security reasons, and the README advises migrating from versions using wkhtmltopdf because of a security vulnerability.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Privacy

The README says directories and links are private by default; archived media links are also not shared by default.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

License

The GitHub repository identifies its license as AGPL-3.0.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Maker

The GitHub profile identifies the repository owner as Abhishek K and lists Bengaluru, India.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Accounts and sharing

It supports multiple accounts and private, public, and group directories; directories and links are private by default.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Archiving

It can archive links as HTML, PDF, or full-page PNG, and automatically save linked non-HTML files such as PDFs, images, and text files.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Automatic metadata

Optional automatic tagging and summarization are implemented with NLTK and are off by default.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Automatic tagging and summaries

Automatic tagging and summarization are off by default, and the README describes the method as simple and imperfect, including that it does not treat multi-word phrases as single tags.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Data storage

SQLite is the default database, and the project says users can substitute databases supported by Django ORM, such as PostgreSQL.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Notable limit

The README says annotation works well on desktop browsers, while mobile annotation works mostly on Firefox.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Notable limitation

The README says automatic tagging cannot treat meaningful multi-word phrases such as “data structure” as one tag.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Organization

Users can categorize bookmarks in directories, edit metadata, and search by URL, title, tags, or summary.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Organization and search

Bookmarks can be organized into directories and searched by URL, title, tags, or summary.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Platform and deployment

The README documents installation on Arch-based and Debian/Ubuntu-based Linux distributions and provides a Docker setup for self-hosting.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Reader and annotations

The built-in reader offers a readable view, and users can annotate archived pages and PDF or EPUB files while saving their last read position.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Reading and annotations

It provides a readability mode, annotations for archived HTML and PDF/EPUB files, and remembers the last reading position for HTML, PDF, and EPUB.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Requirements

The documented installation requires Python 3.9 or later, and the README recommends Python 3.10 or later.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Security detail

The README says JavaScript is removed from the original archived page view for security reasons.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Support limitation

The README says annotation works well on desktop browsers and works mostly on Firefox on mobile.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Users and sharing

It supports multiple user accounts, with private directories by default and options for public and group directories.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

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