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A smart bookmark & knowledge curation desktop app with AI summarization, semantic search, and cross-device sync. Built with Go + Wails + React. (This description comes from the repository itself.)

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Linkit — Your Smart Knowledge Curation Space

Linkit — AI bookmark and knowledge manager

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English | 简体中文


Your bookmarks are a graveyard. You save a link, swear you'll read it later, and never find it again. Linkit fixes that — with AI that actually remembers for you.

Linkit is a desktop bookmark manager built for knowledge workers. AI summaries, semantic search, and a knowledge graph turn saved links into real assets. Collections let you group ideas across categories; link health checks and duplicate detection keep your library clean; one-click import from Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari and other bookmark services gets you started in seconds. Twelve beautiful themes, dual-track local-first storage and cloud sync — completely free with no paywalls, your data is always yours. Connect any OpenAI-compatible API or a local model (Ollama, etc.) for full AI features. Available on macOS, Windows, and Linux.


🔎 What is Linkit?

Linkit is a free, open-source bookmark manager for desktop — a self-hosted, local-first alternative to browser bookmarks, read-it-later services, and paid cloud bookmark apps.

Category Bookmark manager · PKM (personal knowledge management) tool
Platform Desktop app — macOS, Windows, Linux (Go + Wails + React)
Storage Local-first (SQLite on your machine); optional self-hosted cloud sync
License MIT — free and open source forever, no paywalls, no ads
AI Summarization, semantic search, knowledge graph — bring your own OpenAI-compatible API or local model (Ollama)
Privacy No account required, no telemetry, data stays on your device

Search it as a local-first bookmark manager, a self-hosted bookmark service, an open-source read-it-later tool, a privacy-first bookmark organizer, or a free PKM / knowledge management desktop app. If you want your bookmarks out of a saas paywall and back under your own control, Linkit is a FOSS bookmark manager that does AI curation without subscription pricing.


🚀 Installation

🍺 macOS — Homebrew (Recommended)

brew install blue-idea/tap/linkit

Upgrade

brew update && brew upgrade linkit

Linkit is currently distributed without Apple notarization. The Cask automatically clears the Gatekeeper com.apple.quarantine attribute on install — no sudo required.

📦 Direct Downloads

Windows, macOS (DMG), and Linux (AppImage / DEB) binaries are on the GitHub Releases page.

macOS DMG: If Gatekeeper blocks the app, drag Linkit.app to /Applications, then run Fix Gatekeeper.command inside the DMG to clear the quarantine flag automatically.


🌟 Why Linkit?

Linkit Other paid tools Browser Bookmarks
Local-first storage ✅ ❌ ✅
AI summaries & tags ✅ ❌ ❌
Semantic search ✅ ❌ ❌
Duplicate detection ✅ ✅ ❌
Knowledge graph ✅ ❌ ❌
Insights report ✅ ❌ ❌
Import from browsers & services ✅ ✅ —
Cross-device sync ✅ ✅ ✅
Offline-first ✅ ❌ ✅
Pricing (No Paywall) ✅ 100% Free ❌ Paid Subscription ($3+/mo) ✅ Free

⭐ Star Linkit

If Linkit solves your "bookmark graveyard" problem, a star genuinely helps other people discover it. It's free, it's open source, and it costs you one click.

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✨ Key Features

🗄️ Local-First Storage, Absolute Privacy (100% Free)

  • Zero setup, no account required: All bookmarks are stored in a local SQLite database on your machine by default. Works seamlessly offline with lightning-fast sub-millisecond lookups.
  • Uncapped library size: No limits on how many bookmarks, tags, or collections you can store. No hidden caps, trial periods, or functional paywalls.
  • 100% data sovereignty: Your data stays on your machine. No telemetry, no ads, and zero third-party data sharing.

☁️ Free & Secure Cloud Sync (Supabase RLS)

  • Real-time multi-device sync: Sign in anytime to keep bookmarks, collections, categories, and tags synchronized across all your devices.
  • Enterprise-grade Row-Level Security (RLS): Powered by Supabase (PostgreSQL), each record is cryptographically bound to your auth.uid(). Nobody else (not even the developers) can access your bookmarks.
  • Conflict resolution & draft protection: Built-in revision tracking and automatic merging prevent multi-device race conditions; dirty draft caching ensures zero data loss during network disruptions.
  • Completely free, forever: Unlike competing tools that gate cross-device sync, full-text search, or backups behind monthly subscriptions, Linkit's cloud sync is 100% free with zero paywalls.

📥 One-Click Import

Migrate your existing bookmarks in seconds:

  • Browser HTML export — Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge
  • CSV / JSON export from any bookmark service
  • Clipboard URL — paste any link directly via Spotlight (Cmd/Ctrl + K)

💡 Knowledge Assets, Not Just Links

Every bookmark is a rich knowledge card: custom tags, star ratings, pinning, personal notes, and reading status (unread → reading → read → archived). Stop losing links you meant to revisit.

📁 Multi-Level Categories + Dynamic Collections

Build a stable category tree with drag-and-drop. Then create Collections — cross-category themed spaces with custom emojis and colors — for projects, research, or inspiration boards. Organize items manually or let AI structure them around your curation goals.

🎨 AI-Curated Collections

Break free from rigid hierarchies. Provide a natural language prompt (e.g., "Collect modern frontend tooling and design resources"), and the built-in AI will match relevant bookmarks across your library, generate a collection title and description, and recommend contextual tags. Inside any collection, a dynamic recommendation banner continuously surfaces relevant bookmarks based on content and tag similarity for one-click addition. All suggestions remain editable previews until you explicitly confirm.

🤖 Built-in AI Copilot

Note: Linkit does not provide built-in LLM services or API keys by default; users need to configure their own model.

Connect any OpenAI / DeepSeek-compatible API or a local LLM (Ollama, etc.) and unlock:

  • Auto page fetch, summarization, and key takeaways
  • Smart tag and category recommendations
  • AI-curated collections from natural language prompts
  • Semantic search across your entire library
  • Duplicate detection and merge suggestions

🔍 Spotlight Search (Cmd/Ctrl + K)

Instant full-text and semantic vector search across titles, notes, tags, and AI-generated content. Also doubles as a quick-capture bar — paste a URL and save it without leaving your current tab.

📊 Curation Insights Report

Linkit periodically generates an Insights Report summarizing your curation habits: most-used tags, reading progress, content patterns, and AI-surfaced highlights from your unread pile. Turn your bookmark graveyard into an active knowledge base.

🔁 Duplicate Bookmark Detection

Automatically surface exact-URL duplicates and AI-detected near-duplicates (same content, different URLs). Review and merge with one click to keep your library clean.

❤️ Link Health Check

Background scans detect broken links (404) and silently changed pages. Filter, review, and clean up stale bookmarks before they pile up.

🌐 Knowledge Graph

Visualize your entire library as an interactive network. Nodes connect via shared tags, collections, and AI semantic similarity. Click any node to jump directly to that bookmark.


📸 Interface Showcase

📊 Main Workspace (Dashboard)

Three-column layout with collapsible sidebars, six view modes (grid, list, waterfall, timeline, tag-cluster, collections), and a rich detail panel. Dashboard list1 list2 list3

🔍 Spotlight Search (Cmd/Ctrl + K)

Instant multi-attribute and semantic search, or paste a URL to capture and analyze it on the spot. Spotlight

🤖 AI Insights & Smart Summaries

One-click page analysis: core takeaways, auto-tags, and a concise summary — all generated locally or via your chosen API. AI Insights

🎨 AI-Curated Collections & Smart Aggregation

Generate curated collections from natural language goals, with real-time similarity-based bookmark suggestions inside each collection view. AI Collections

📥 Adding Bookmarks & Quick Capture

Drag-and-drop or clipboard detection. AI fetches metadata and suggests tags in real time. Add Bookmark 入库分析

☁️ Local vs Cloud Storage Modes

Seamlessly choose between an account-free, offline local-first mode or a free cloud account with multi-device synchronization. Storage Modes Storage Settings

🤖 LLM Configuration

Note: Linkit does not provide built-in LLM services or API keys by default; users need to configure their own model.

Connect any OpenAI / DeepSeek-compatible cloud API or local LLM (such as Ollama, LocalAI, vLLM). API keys are encrypted in your local OS keychain (macOS Keychain / Windows Credential Manager) and never uploaded. LLM Configuration

💔 Link Health Check

Scan for broken or changed links and filter results by status. Health Check

⚙️ Preferences & Themes

Twelve elegant themes (Midnight, Ocean, Graphite, Sunset, Obsidian, Aurora, Daylight, Paper, Cupertino, Cappuccino, Provence, Monet) and full English / 简体中文 localization. Settings theme1 theme2 theme3 theme4 theme5 theme6

🛠️ Technology Stack

  • Desktop Framework: Wails (Go)
  • Frontend: React + Vite + TypeScript
  • UI: Tailwind CSS + Glassmorphism design system
  • Local DB: SQLite (via GORM)
  • Cloud Sync: Supabase (PostgreSQL + RLS)
  • AI: OpenAI / DeepSeek-compatible APIs or local LLMs (Ollama)

🔑 Security & Privacy

  • Local by default: No account, no telemetry, no cloud dependency to get started.
  • RLS-enforced sync: Cloud data is row-level secured — only you can access your records.
  • Keychain-stored credentials: AI API keys are stored in your OS keystore (go-keyring → macOS Keychain / Windows Credential Manager). Never hardcoded, never uploaded.

📄 License

Linkit is MIT licensed — free and open source, no paywalls and no ads. Use it personally, at work, or as the base for your own self-hosted bookmark manager deployment.

MIT License · Copyright © 2026 blue-idea


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