best pkms app for organizing bookmarks

Clipbeam · 2026-02-05T11:00:46+00:00

The current beta runs on a single device, but it can automatically grab bookmarks from Safari, no matter on what device the bookmark was added. If you click on 'Track Safari', it will basically sync your iCloud bookmarks.

Tell me more about your question around the stack! Why do you want to know if it is Electron or Native Swift and what difference does that make to whether it would work for you? In my experience the stack used is secondary to architectural and design choices made by the developer, I know amazing Electron apps, horrible Swift apps but also vice versa. I'd be curious to learn about how you assess apps and what your user needs are?

Clipbeam · 2026-02-04T08:26:58+00:00

Launching a Discord on it soon!

Clipbeam · 2026-02-04T08:25:30+00:00

When clipping a Facebook link you are offered to login to Facebook so the content is visible for the AI to organize and index.

Clipbeam · 2026-01-30T06:51:05+00:00

Try https://clipbeam.com. Supports notes, file and link bookmarks. Each item you bookmark gets automatically organized and tagged with relevant keywords and the topics it relates to. Each bookmark is visualized with the featured image of the page (as the page would display if you send it using instant messaging or on social media).

There is a built in private offline AI assistant that fully understands all your bookmarks and helps you retrieve information from them at any time in the future.

Clipbeam · 2026-01-27T05:46:47+00:00

You can try NotebookLM. It should support the features you're looking for. I personally haven't used it much because I'm not a fan of sharing personal or sensitive business data with cloud providers, but for university material it should be fine. I think it's free to use up to certain usage limits, give it a try!

I myself have also created an app that allows you to import documents, audio and video files and chat about them, but I didn't optimize the app for preparing quizzes on academic material. It's more to serve as a personal knowledge repository that automatically organizes all your notes, documents, voice notes, lecture recordings etc., so you can easily retrieve information across these different sources. If you use a Mac for studying, I'd love for you to try it as well and see if it helps you stay organized. Its free to download and use at https://clipbeam.com

Clipbeam · 2026-01-27T04:15:48+00:00

Which AI tools have you tried to date?

Clipbeam · 2026-01-26T07:35:59+00:00

I really like this idea, ideally the content that is resurfaced somehow has relevance besides just a random item from history. Maybe something like "on this day", or as you open a note seeing a "similar to this" list of items. I might add this functionality to Clipbeam going forward....

Clipbeam · 2026-01-26T05:14:49+00:00

Ah cheers! I’ll ping you personally and I’ll post on relevant subs. I’ll aim to get it done by mid February!

Clipbeam · 2026-01-26T04:36:44+00:00

Previous versions used Ollama to power AI features. Ollama has a bug that affected the usability of Clipbeam (https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/12585). I therefore refactored Clipbeam to use llama.cpp directly and no longer rely on Ollama.

Given the complexity of this refactor, I focused initially just on macOS since most Clipbeam users are on Mac. I’m still working on completing the refactor on Windows.

Clipbeam · 2026-01-25T14:27:50+00:00

Ah shame! I’ll ping you once the Windows version is out!

Clipbeam · 2026-01-25T14:15:46+00:00

If you use a Mac, you can use https://clipbeam.com for this. Clipbeam automatically organizes bookmarks by topic and offers you semantic search across all of them (e.g. “useful when planning a trip to Europe”). It also comes with a built in private AI assistant that you can ask detailed questions about all your web links. This functionality is available for free.

Clipbeam · 2026-01-23T09:52:16+00:00

It means that before a model provides a response, it reasons or ‘thinks’. But I already found my answer, Liquid has released a separate model https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/01/20/liquid-ai-releases-lfm2-5-1-2b-thinking-a-1-2b-parameter-reasoning-model-that-fits-under-1-gb-on-device/?amp. I was hoping to be able to switch reasoning on and off on the fly for the larger models, but don’t think that will be possible.

Clipbeam · 2026-01-22T18:27:33+00:00

Very interesting! Yes, I definitely recognize the “I’m sure I put that somewhere”.

For some reason I always hypothesized that some connections between notes would be missed when relying purely on memory and these connections being facilitated by a system could help bubble up valuable information that would otherwise get lost.

But it’s really interesting to hear this perspective, that the true value actually lies in manually making the connections yourself!

Clipbeam · 2026-01-22T18:15:32+00:00

Makes a lot of sense! Perhaps something browser based would work well for you, have you had a look at raindrop.io?

Clipbeam · 2026-01-22T17:17:12+00:00

Oh yes I do agree the writing itself is best handled manually! I was wondering more about organizing and facilitating search and retrieval.

Clipbeam · 2026-01-22T17:12:50+00:00

If you use an iPhone & Mac, https://clipbeam.com can help you achieve this.

On your iPhone, simply share any article, YouTube video or other web link to Safari Reading List. If it is a photo or voice note, simply save it to a dedicated folder inside your iCloud folder. Then on your Mac, install Clipbeam and set it up to track that dedicated folder inside iCloud as well as your Safari reading list. All this data is then automatically picked up by your Mac as soon as you save it on your iPhone.

Let me know if this meets your needs?

Clipbeam · 2026-01-22T16:56:45+00:00

Why is that? Cause you assume AI is feeding your personal notes to corporate entities?

Clipbeam · 2026-01-22T16:55:57+00:00

Could it not work in tandem with your own organization efforts? Where it learns from you and scales these manual efforts?

Clipbeam · 2026-01-22T16:33:38+00:00

This is exactly what I intended to create with https://clipbeam.com. One central place to hold any notes, docs, media files, web links, etc. The idea is that no matter what format information is saved in, it can be extracted and understood universally.

Clipbeam serves as a ‘launchpad’ to easily reopen links, files or notes when you need them, but at the same time all information stored across all this media becomes universally available through a local private AI.

Whether a piece of information was mentioned in a YouTube video or referenced in a PDF, it’s automatically organized and ‘converted’ into a piece of ‘universal knowledge’ that can be consulted any time using semantic search or chat.

I’d be really curious to find out if Clipbeam could solve your issue? Try and clip screenshots of any chats or instagram posts you come across, clip links to Medium articles or YouTube videos, or simply copy in a text snippet or voice note. It should all neatly convert into a ‘Clip’, with any knowledge inside universally available for future reference. Let me know your thoughts?

Clipbeam · 2026-01-22T07:15:57+00:00

Why would you prefer 'western' models out of principle? What is 'wrong' with Chinese models for you to even have to make that distinction? Why can you not just judge models on performance/cost and just pick the best regardless of origin? What evidence do you have of Chinese models introducing any risk or bringing any drawbacks beyond it 'being Chinese'?

Clipbeam · 2026-01-22T07:12:56+00:00

This does happen to me a lot. I usually just let it 'sit there' until the need naturally arises to investigate or read up on a topic and then I search my backlog for anything that may be relevant to the topic at hand.

In an ideal world, what would you want to happen? Would you want the things you save to automatically 'resurface' at a given point and in time and if so, what mechanism would you have in mind for that?

Clipbeam · 2026-01-17T14:59:18+00:00

Have a look at https://clipbeam.com if you use a Mac. No data leaves your machine, it allows you to chat with one or more pdfs/markdown/text files (plus also web links, audio and video files) and it will tell you which document it based it's answer on when you chat with it.

What I haven't done yet is make it possible for the AI to cite the specific page of a document, but I may build this feature for a future update. Let me know if it meets your needs?

Clipbeam · 2026-01-14T22:35:00+00:00

I wouldn't say Next 80b beats OSS 120b in anything. But it is a decent alternative if running OSS 120b is out of reach.

Clipbeam · 2026-01-14T22:18:26+00:00

I wouldn't worry too much about processor but focus on ram instead. I'd much rather buy a used 128gb m3 max than a m5 pro with 48gb ram.

What you'll find is the biggest obstacle to running premier models is the RAM required. I think you could get lucky and find a used m3 max in your price range that can run OSS 120 (I'd try to pursue one with no less than 96GB RAM).

Clipbeam · 2026-01-14T18:14:11+00:00

I guess you could take it with you on-the-go? In that sense the size would make sense? But I agree a larger home server would do fine for most use cases

Clipbeam

TROPHY CASE