Your searchable
memory of the web
Pensive captures full article content and makes everything searchable. Open source, self-hostable, and designed for developers who want to own their data.
Free hosted trial • Self-host for unlimited use • AGPL-3.0 licensed
Open source • AGPL-3.0 licensed • Own your data
The problem every developer knows
You find the perfect solution
That Stack Overflow answer, that brilliant blog post, that GitHub issue that solves your exact problem.
You think "I'll bookmark this"
But browser bookmarks become a graveyard, and "I'll remember to search for it later" never works.
Six months later, you need it again
You remember the solution exists, but Google only shows you SEO spam and outdated tutorials.
Pensive fixes this
Get the browser extensions
Extensions work with both self-hosted and managed instances
Everything you need to build your knowledge base
Powerful tools designed to capture, organize, and search through everything you read online.
Intelligent Search
Find content within articles, not just titles. Search through full text, summaries, and AI-generated tags to discover exactly what you're looking for.
Save from Anywhere
Seamlessly capture content from any device. Our browser extension and Telegram bot ensure you never lose a valuable piece of information.
AI-Powered Insights
Get automatic summaries and smart tags for every article. AI extracts key insights and organizes your content intelligently.
Your Data, Your Control
Import from existing services and export anytime. Your knowledge base belongs to you, with full data portability and control.
Open Source
Self-host unlimited bookmarks or use our managed service
🔧 Actively developing
Pensive is actively developed with community feedback. While we prioritize data safety, please back up important bookmarks during this development phase.
Why I built this
Years ago, I discovered Gordon Bell and MyLifeBits research project. It was an experiment to document and make searchable everything in a person's life. The idea stuck with me: is it possible to preserve everything I see and hear, and make it searchable?
As someone who loves reading articles (especially on Hacker News) and enjoys sharing links, I kept losing the good stuff. That mechanical watch article? Buried under SEO spam. The personal web is drowning in corporate content farms.
I tried everything. Pocket was one of them and I really liked it, at least until Mozilla turned it into another ad platform and finally shut it down. There are other options, but I at this point I wanted my own solution. So I built Pensive.
No growth hacking. No daily recommendations you'll never read. Just a quiet tool that remembers what you found valuable. You can read more about the creation of Pensive in this blog post. Let me know what you think.
How to use Pensive
Self-hosted
Host it yourself
- • Unlimited bookmarks
- • Full source code access
- • Your own domain & data
- • PostgreSQL database
- • Docker deployment
Hosted trial
Try before you deploy
- • 10 bookmarks per day
- • All features included
- • Browser extension
- • Telegram bot
- • AI summaries & tags
Managed hosting
per month
- • 100 bookmarks per day
- • Fully managed service
- • Regular backups
- • Updates & maintenance
- • Support the project