Introduction

Grimoire is a local-first bookmark manager. Save links, extract readable content, organize with tags and categories, and find things later with keyword or meaning-based search. Your library stays on your machine.

It is a full rewrite of the old 0.x app. Same idea — private bookmark library — with a new local daemon and UI. There is no multi-user signup and no published browser-store extension yet.

What you get

• Save public http / https links from the app, import, API, MCP, or a browser bookmarklet
• Extract readable text from normal pages, plus PDFs, GitHub repos and issues, Stack Overflow, and YouTube where available
• Tags and nested categories (up to three levels)
• Personal notes, pin, read / unread, read later, archive, and trash
• Keyword search always; semantic and hybrid search when embeddings are configured
• Optional AI summaries, tags, and categories (OpenAI, Ollama, Anthropic, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, or a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint)
• Import browser bookmarks (HTML); export JSON or CSV
• Local backups, restore, and diagnostics
• Single user, loopback by default (127.0.0.1:3210)

AI providers are optional. Core save, organize, keyword search, import/export, and backup work without them.

Start here

1. Quick start — Docker
2. Using Grimoire — day-to-day features
3. Install without Docker — native macOS/Linux

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