Bookmark Bot

Bookmarking Discord Messages

Discord is a main littlefish Tools of Work for DAOs and for the LFF. Unfortunately, the ability to bookmark messages within Discord is a missing feature of Discord that many people are missing.

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Bookmarking is important for several reasons. As an individual, we want to collect and curate the important links for projects and for future reference. Likewise for groups and communities, shared resources are a way to establish standards and shared "Bodies of knowledge". This can be useful for onboarding and educational functions of communities.

The steps

I searched for bookmarks in Top.gg, a resource for discord bots. I found two that seemed to address bookmarking of messages: Bookmarker and Bookmark and Botmark

All of these seem to work in a similar fashion - react to the message you want to bookmark and the bot sends you a dm with a copy of the message.

I choose Bookmark by Skeleton Man from the Discord -

Bookmark messages and attachements. Let users or yourself bookmark posts to revisit them later on, or keep them as a back up.

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Bookmark will bookmark any message or attachement when you react with the bookmark emote. The bot will send you an embed with a link to the original message, attachements included in the original message will be added aswell. Bookmark detects NSFW content and spoilers the attachments when sending it to you. No need to worry about showing NSFW items in a SFW enviroment!

Latest additions: Choose your own emote to recieve bookmarks!

Commands:

/help 
/info 
/emote [set,reset] 
/setup

The support servers for the others were not available but I was able to contact the developer of 'Bookmark'. Unfortunately, the bot is not very stable. However, it might be worth an attempt as using. Also, the developer, skeleton man, has offered to share the source with us to host it ourselves. See the Discord support channel for our testing and conversation.

Note on how these bots solve the problem:

There is another way to solve the problem of saving messages or highlighting them for future reference: the search function! A possible method would be to react with an emote and then search for that emote. This is a requested feature and is not currently supported in Discord. Many folks have requested this...

Reactions are a big part of the Discord Bot experience. Here is the Discord.js section on reactions

How to Use 'Bookmark' Discord Bot

Invite the bot to the server -How to invite a bot

• review the bot commands - Commands: /help /info /emote [set,reset] /setup

• find the message you want to save

• react with the 🔖 emote

• check your DMs for a message from the bot

How Bookmarking Help DAOs

Discord is a very popular tool that is used by DAOs for variety of reasons like Permissions, Roles and Channel organization but. One important problem of Discord is catching up. If you are absent even for a couple of days, there can be hundreds if not thousands of messages and discussions in multiple channels. Even missing couple of hours can result missing a lot of information as DAOs have members from different timezones and not everyone can be online at the same time.

Imagine what a newcomer to the organization experiences. As new members join the DAO, they may need to catch up on past decisions, discussions, or key pieces of information. If there's a system in place to highlight or bookmark these, the onboarding process becomes smoother.

DAOs frequently have discussions on various topics, from governance decisions to project proposals. Being able to bookmark or flag significant pieces of information ensures that these insights aren't lost in the constant flow of conversation.

Disclaimer

As of March 2022, this bot is no longer available as a service. You need to self-host it if you want to use it. Link can be found here.