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Getting started

Omnom is a libre web content preservation service designed to capture, organize, and revisit online information with ease and precision. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools for saving dynamic web pages, aggregating content feeds, and engaging with the decentralized web.

Core Functionalities

  • Bookmark Creation with Website Snapshots: Save web pages along with static snapshots capturing their visual state, including dynamic content.
  • Feed Aggregation: Consolidate multiple RSS and Atom feeds into a single, unified stream for efficient content monitoring.
  • ActivityPub Support: Integrate with the Fediverse by sharing your bookmarks or following and consuming content from ActivityPub-enabled platforms and users.

Key Features

  • Advanced Bookmarking: Captures websites as rendered by your browser, preserving the displayed content of complex, dynamic pages.
  • Feed Reader: Provides a built-in reader for effortlessly browsing and managing your aggregated feeds.
  • Fediverse/ActivityPub Support: Enables interaction with decentralized social networks.
  • Versioned Snapshots: Saves multiple snapshots of the same URL, complete with resource summaries and compare/diff views to track content evolution.
  • Web Interface with Multi-User Support: Features a web interface designed as a multi user environment.
  • Locally Saved Multimedia Content: Ensures that media assets are stored locally for dependable access.
  • Flexible Filtering Options: Allows for precise content retrieval through extensive filtering by date, free text search, tags, users, domains, URLs, and more.
  • Documented API: Includes a comprehensive, documented API for seamless integration with other tools and custom workflows.

Who is Omnom For?

Omnom is designed for a diverse range of users who need tools for capturing, organizing, and preserving web content - including

  • Researchers and Academics: For saving and organizing research materials, journal articles, and specific web states, especially those with dynamic content. The versioned snapshots and filtering options are invaluable for tracking evolving information.
  • Journalists and Content Creators: To reliably archive sources, track changes on websites, and gather information for articles and reports, ensuring no content is lost.
  • Privacy-Conscious Individuals: Users who prioritize data sovereignty and control over their personal browsing history and saved content by opting for a self-hosted solution.
  • Power Users and Digital Archivists: Individuals who actively curate and preserve specific portions of the internet for personal reference, historical documentation, or knowledge management.
  • Developers and System Administrators: Those who can leverage the self-hosted nature and the documented API for integration into custom workflows, internal knowledge bases, or automated archiving systems.
  • Fediverse and Decentralized Web Enthusiasts: Users who wish to integrate their activity on decentralized social networks (like Mastodon).
  • Teams and Organizations: Groups that require a shared system for bookmarking, content aggregation, and knowledge archiving.

Essentially, Omnom is for anyone who values the ability to capture the web as they see it, organize it effectively, and ensure its long-term accessibility, regardless of whether the original source changes or disappears.

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