Web App

The Social Archiver web app at social-archive.org gives you a signed-in archive workspace and public timelines. It is useful when you want to browse, organize, archive, or share directly from a browser.

Sign In

1. Open social-archive.org
2. Click Sign In
3. Enter the email address used by your Social Archiver account
4. Open the magic link from your email

After sign-in, your own timeline is available at:

https://social-archive.org/{username}

Private Owner Views

When you are signed in and viewing your own timeline, the web app includes private owner-only views:

• All: every archive in your account
• Inbox: unreviewed posts
• Archive: reviewed posts
• Starred: liked/starred posts
• Shared: posts currently published to the web
• Notes: posts with personal notes
• Tags: grouped by archive tags
• Authors: grouped by author

Visitors only see public shared content. Your private owner views are not exposed to other users.

Archive From the Web

Use the archive action in the web app to paste a supported social URL. Social Archiver submits the job to the same server archive pipeline used by the plugin, mobile app, and Chrome extension.

New web-created archives can sync to:

• Mobile through Auto Sync
• Obsidian when the plugin is connected and open
• Chrome extension history when relevant jobs are created from Chrome

Organize and Edit

The web app can manage common archive state:

• Move posts between Inbox and Archive
• Star or unstar posts
• Add and remove tags
• Add, edit, or remove personal notes
• Highlight text in reader mode
• Delete archives
• Run bulk actions across selected or matching archives

Supported state changes are synced through your Social Archiver account to mobile and Obsidian where those clients support them.

Public Sharing

Use sharing when you want selected archived posts to be visible publicly:

• Your public timeline lives at https://social-archive.org/{username}
• Individual posts get permanent URLs under that username
• Shared posts are optimized for search engines and social preview cards
• You can unshare posts later

See Sharing for share modes, privacy behavior, and troubleshooting.

How It Relates to Obsidian

The web app does not write directly to your Obsidian vault. It updates your Social Archiver server library. The Obsidian plugin then writes Markdown files and frontmatter changes into your vault when connected.

If you have existing server archives that are not in your vault, open Obsidian and run Settings → Social Archiver → Sync → Sync Existing Archives.

Next Steps

• Sharing
• Mobile App
• Chrome Extension