ArchiveBox

Spent an hour of my morning setting up ArchiveBox. I’ve set this up before but I forgot how to access it. It wasn’t even running.

I saw that there was a docker-compose.yml already and I went to update Docker Compose in my Synology NAS and ran docker-composer up -d and it worked as it was before:

Why?

I blocked Reddit and other news site to my main computer to prevent me to rabbit-hole on unintended topics. I wanted some sort of deterrent when I impulsively type or visit a Reddit link.

I was watching a podcast and they linked to an interesting Reddit post about someone posting their net worth, growth, and plans. I did not want to unblock Reddit “temporarily”. I remembered this is a good use-case of ArchiveBox. I’ll archive the Reddit link and I’ll have access only to the archived page.

It worked:


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