LinkTaco is an open source platform that allows you to manage your links in virtually anyway you please. You can organize links and notes by tags, statuses, read flags, and more. You can also shorten URLs and create link listings (ie, link-in-bio type pages) that have full analytics.

Custom domains, QR codes, full API, etc. There's a lot built into the platform. For now though, let's just get you going on the basics. This is a getting started guide after all.

#Accounts & Organizations

In LinkTaco, you have one account. Each account can own "unlimited" organizations. What is the difference between the two?

An account is what you use to login. Think of it like your email and password. This is the identity that is used to link all your data together as owned by your account.

An organization is more like a grouping of data. So all your bookmarks, listings, shorts, QR codes, custom domains, etc. all are linked to the given organization.

Organizations are also what are paid for. So when you want to upgrade to a paid organization it's done so at the organization level. Since each account can have multiple organizations this allows an account to combine both paid organizations and free organizations.

Every account can have up to two free organizations. After that if you'd like to add a new free organization you must pay for an existing organization first. This will free up a new free organization slot and you can then create your new organization.

#Changing organizations

When logged into your account by default the system will select your default user organization (that is, the organization created when you registered your account).

You can see which is selected in the drop down menu in the top left corner of the LinkTaco page. If you have other organizations linked to your account, you can use this drop down menu to select the organization you wish to work in at the moment.

Just change the organization in the menu and the page will reload. You will now be working in the selected organization and the data you see will be linked to the organization you selected.

#Organizing & Filtering

With Bookmarks, Notes, Link Listings and Short URL's you can use tags to organize your links. You can use these tags to filter your data quickly find a specific entry you're looking for. With Bookmarks (and Notes) you can also search by query.

If you click "Advanced Search" in the top right corner of these pages you can also exclude tags. This allows you to, for example, filter for all items tagged with "beach" but exclude any also tagged with "boat".

On Bookmarks/Notes, each time you add a new filter to the chain you will be given an updated RSS feed link in the corner. You can use this for RSS feeds specifically for this filter. All users can create these custom RSS feeds for all public links on the system.

#Bookmarks & Notes

Saving bookmarks and notes is the core piece of LinkTaco. The idea is to save your bookmarks (links) in a way that's easy to organize and find them when you need them.

Saving them is very easy and the process is virtually the same for both a bookmark or a note.

1. Click Save Link (or Save Note)
2. Fill out the Title, URL (not present for Note), Description/Note, etc.
3. For bookmarks, if you click "Archive URL" you will trigger a new archive of the URL using the archive.org service. Once this process is completed the archive link will be displayed in your link listings.
4. Select the organization this should be saved to (for most people there is only one choice but for those with multiple, choose the one you'd like)
5. Enter the tags to use. You can specify up to 10 and they are comma separated (ie, tag 1, tag 2, simple tag, tag 4).
6. Click Save

And you're done.

#Link Listings (ie, link in bio)

Link Listing is exactly what the name implies. It's an ordered list of links. Think of it like a link-in-bio type link that is used in social media profiles. Of course it's useful in way more scenarios than that. For example, for us in on-boarding new members to a club or providing useful resources for a class. There are countless use cases.

To save a new listing simply login to your account and do the following:

1. Click "Lists" on the left menu
2. Click the "Add" button on the top right
3. Enter all the various fields. Only title, slug and domain are required.
4. Some notes on specific fields:

• Slug, this is the list name. For example, if the URL is "https://links.ht/test-list" then "test-list" is the slug.
• Image, if an image is provided it must be a jpeg, gif or png format. It will be resized and displayed on the listing page.
• Domain, the default link listing domain is links.ht
• Domain, if you have a paid organization and have configured a custom domain for your listings you can select that here. Whatever domain is selected is what will be used for your listing. You can change it in the future if you'd like.
• Is Default, this is only useful if you have a custom domain configured. When loading a custom domain without providing a list slug, the system will look for the "default" list configured for the custom domain. This is how you select which list is used.

1. Click the "Save" button

And you're done. You will be redirected back to the Lists listing page. Now you need to add all your links to the listing. So find your new list and do the following:

1. Click the "Actions" button
2. Click the "Manage Links" menu item
3. Click the "Add" button at the top right.
4. Add the Title, URL, Order and Description.

• Order, this field will determine the order in which the links are displayed. Starting at zero (0).
• In the future we will have a nicer ordering interface.

1. Click "Save".

That's it. Do this for as many links as you'd like to have on the listing.

#Link Shortening

Link Shorts are just URL redirects, usually with a shorter URL that's easier to remember. Using this service provides your end users with greater ease of use and also provides you with some extra insights, such as analytics.

To add new new short URL, login to your account and do the following:

1. On the left menu, click on "Short Links".
2. Click the "Add" button at the top right.
3. Fill out the various fields. Only the Title, URL and Domain fields are required. Some notes on the fields below:

• Short Code, you can customize the short code by specifying what you'd like. It's not required. If not given then one will be generated for you. As long as the code is not already taken by another user, for the given domain, you will be allowed to use it.
• Short Code, An example. If the shortened URL is "https://linkta.co/short-url", then the short code in this case is "short-url"
• Domain, the default domain for shortened urls is linkta.co
• Domain, if you have a paid organization and have configured a custom domain for your short URL's you can select that here. Whatever domain is selected is what will be used for your short. You can change it in the future if you'd like.

1. Click the "Save" button.

All done. You can now see the new URL in your short listings.

#Importing data

You can quickly populate your account organization by importing data from various sources. Please see the Import page for more information on this process.