Did you know it’s possible to bookmark messages right within discord ? Most people are unaware of this, but is a must have utility tool for power users or even regular users who need to refer back to messages

How to bookmark messages

The only way is to………. use a bot. It’s not native, but it gets the job done. There are quite a few bookmarking bots out there. But most are either offline (discontinued), don’t work / haven’t been updated, or have been rejected from using messages intent. Some bots require you to add a 🔖 reaction making it public that you’ve bookmarked something.

As someone who like productivity, I sought out to create an amazing bookmarking bot… Bookmarker.

Using Bookmarker to bookmark messages.

Step 1: Add the bot (bot invite link)
Step 2: Right click (tap & hold) a message —> Apps —> Bookmark
And that’s it!

No permissions setup required. The bot uses ephemeral interactions only meaning your bookmarks are private and is “server less”. It’s made in rust using cloudflare workers. Built on the same infrastructure as discord meaning it is always online 24/7. Another plus point for this bot is that you can visually mange your bookmarks in your DMs by changing the embed colour.

Your bookmarks are private. Message contents are not stored and the bot is open source. For any help please see https://bookmarker.gitbook.io/

Using YAGPDB

You can set up bookmarks using YAGPDB via custom command. Navigate to the custom command tab in yag’s dashboard. Copy paste the code found here: https://yagpdb-cc.github.io/utilities/reactionbookmark . and you’re done. This system uses the reaction method but has the plus point of allowing you to change the bookmark emoji if you wish. You could also use a custom emoji from your server!

Glad you made it to the end. For the month of August there will be no newsletters as I’ve been quite busy with my final semester for my masters degree! See ya’ll in September! If you have any questions feel free to DM me.

-Daksh