Everyone's bookmarks end up the same way: a bar full of favicons with no labels, folders you never open, a "read later" pile that is really a "read never" pile - and underneath it all, a slow rot you cannot see. Links that 404. Domains that lapsed. Pages that quietly moved.

Hosted bookmark tools solve the organising part, but they ask for an account and a copy of your links on somebody else's server. That trade never sat right for something as personal as a list of URLs. Your bookmarks are a map of what you care about. That map should live on your own disk.

Arrow keys move the selection, Enter opens the focused bookmark, and the digits 1-9 jump straight to a page. You never have to aim at anything.

Prefer the mouse for some things? That still works. Right-click a bookmark for every action in one menu, drag the strip on its edge to move it between categories, long-press a row to edit it in place. The keyboard is the fast path, not the only path.

The Health view sorts every bookmark into Healthy, Broken, Content issues, Unchecked, Stale, and Unused, with search, bulk export, and a "work through" mode that steps you through the list one item at a time instead of dumping everything on you at once.

Flag a bookmark as monitored and it gets its own history: an uptime percentage over 24 hours, 7 days, and 30 days, a response-time chart, a heartbeat bar of every check, and a CSV export if you want the raw numbers.

None of it is one-size-fits-all. Every bookmark's checking mode - Off, Periodic, or Monitor - is set individually, along with the recheck interval and how many retries happen before something is marked offline.

Config -> Statistics keeps a quiet record of how the dashboard actually gets used: a bar chart of active bookmarks over the last 7, 30, 90 days or year, and a ranked "most opened" list so you can see at a glance what actually earns its place.

The fastest route is Docker Compose. Drop this in a docker-compose.yml and start it:

services:
  nextDash:
    image: ghcr.io/jordibrouwer/nextdash:latest
    container_name: nextDash
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    volumes:
      - ./data:/app/data
    restart: unless-stopped

visitor@nextdash:~$ docker compose up -d

Open http://localhost:8080 and import your browser's bookmark export from the config screen, or start adding links right away. That is it - you are running.

Phosphor green is just the default. nextDash ships with fifty-plus built-in themes and seven layout presets, and switching from Config -> Appearance repaints every screen entirely - colours, density, even the terminal chrome around it. Columns and layout are yours to rearrange too.

nextDash has no login by design. It assumes a network you trust - so keep it behind Tailscale, a reverse proxy with authentication, or on localhost. There is an optional write token for the moments it has to live on a LAN. Analytics are off by default and opt-in only: when they are off, the tracker is not even loaded onto the page.

nextDash began as a fork of ThinkDashboard by MatiasDesuu, and has grown a fair way from there. It is open source under the MIT license, which means you can run it, read it, change it, and ship your changes. Issues and pull requests are welcome - bugs, features, and translations alike.