A Pinboard alternative that looks like this decade
Pinboard has kept bookmarks safe since 2009 with a text-only interface, tags, and a one-person company behind it. People who love it really love it. People who leave usually leave for the same two reasons.
Stay on Pinboard if you live in tags and want the archive of every page you ever saved. Try ceevo if you want previews and titles pulled in automatically, folders instead of tags, a page you can share, and no yearly fee.
- Saving
- Bookmarklet, extensions, API.
- Paste a link or write a note on the web. Share to ceevo from any app on your phone.
- Organising
- Tags. Lots of tags.
- One level of folders you name yourself. Flat on purpose.
- Look
- Plain text, dense, fast.
- Titles, previews, and favicons pulled in. Light and dark themes.
- Sharing
- Public bookmarks and tag pages.
- Any folder becomes a public page under your name with one switch.
- Archive
- Full page archive on the archival tier.
- No archive. ceevo keeps the link, not a copy of the page.
- Price
- Paid yearly.
- Free. If paid plans ever come, nothing you saved gets locked.
Why people leave Pinboard
The first reason is the interface. Pinboard is deliberately plain, which is fine until you have three thousand bookmarks that all look like the same line of grey text. The second is tags: they are powerful, and they need discipline that most of us do not have at 11pm on a phone.
What ceevo does instead
Every saved link gets its title, a description, and a preview image automatically. Folders replace tags, and there is only one level of them, so the choice at save time is short: which of your ten folders does this belong in.
A folder can be public in one switch. Pinboard has public bookmarks too, but a ceevo folder page is designed to be sent to someone, not just to exist.
Where Pinboard still wins
The archive. If you pay for the archival tier, Pinboard keeps a copy of every page you save, and years later it is still there when the original is gone. ceevo does not do that. If link rot is your main worry, Pinboard is the right tool.
Questions
- Does ceevo have an API?
- Not yet. Public folders can be shared as pages today, and an open way to fetch them is on the list.
- Does ceevo archive pages?
- No. It saves the link and its preview, and opens the original page.
- Can I import from Pinboard?
- Not yet. You would re-save the links that still matter.