Embark

Get to where you need to go. Embark is your bookmarks bar, re-imagined. (Static demo)

The purpose of this project is to allow anyone to host a customized and enhanced bookmarks page. It can be configured as the "new tab" page in your browser.

Features

• Use / to quickly search with Google
• Organize links into groups
• Easy JSON configuration
• Recent links

Installation

I recommend installing this with Docker. But, you could also install the source code and run it manually.

Docker

You can pull the Embark image, and start it by running this command. You need to add in your port of choice, and a directory where you want to store your bookmarks.json on your machine. The bookmarks.json file is how you add links to Embark.

$ docker run \
  -dit \
  -p <port>:3000 \
  -v <data>:/app/data/ \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  --name embark \
  ggantek/embark

I prefer running the container with Docker Compose:

version: '3'

services:
  embark:
    image: ggantek/embark:latest
    ports:
      - <port>:3000
    volumes:
      - <data>:/app/data/
    restart: unless-stopped

From source

$ git clone git@github.com:graysonlee123/embark.git
$ cd embark/
$ npm i
$ npm run build
$ npx next start -p <port>

Configuration

To modify your bookmarks, all you need to do is create and edit your bookmarks.json file. It should resemble the following:

{
  "groups": [
    {
      "name": "Productivity",
      "icon": "briefcase-outline",
      "items": [
        {
          "label": "Gmail",
          "url": "https://gmail.com/",
          "blank": true
        },
        ...
      ]
    },
    ...
  ]
}

You can use any icon in Ionic's open-source icon library for group icons.

You can optionally add "blank": true to an item to open it in a new tab by default.

Updating

To add, change, edit, or remove links in Embark, edit your bookmarks.json file. Then, refresh the site twice or wait some time. On the first refresh, NextJS triggers a function to rebuild the page with the new data.

Changelog

• 1.2.0: Added dark mode and bookmarks.json checking.
• 1.1.0: Added TypeScript, ESLint, and Prettier
• 1.0.0: Initial release

Contributing

See the contributing notes for details about contributing.