Your searchable
memory of the web
Open source bookmarking solution that captures full article content and makes everything searchable. Self-host your own personal knowledge base to remember and find everything you read online.
Open source & self-hostable • Hosted version available
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You remember the solution exists, but Google only shows you SEO spam and outdated tutorials.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
One-click saving directly from your browser
Everything you need to build your knowledge base
Powerful tools designed to capture, organize, and search through everything you read online.
Designed for 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.
Open Source & Self-Hosted
Own your data completely. Deploy Pensive on your own infrastructure with full source code access and complete control.
🔧 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 at this point I wanted my own solution. So I built Pensive.
After building it, I decided to open source the entire project. Your bookmarks and notes are too important to trust to yet another service that might shut down or change direction. With Pensive, you can self-host your own instance and have complete control over your data.
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.
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