Publish the collection, and still have somewhere to work
3 min read · Switching & alternatives
Wakelet is built for publishing - a collection reads like a story and looks good when shared. What it is not is a daily working surface with governance behind it. Linksley is a Wakelet alternative that keeps both sides: boards you can publish as public pages with five themes and per-link descriptions, and private boards with per-person view-only caps, required boards, and a searchable new tab page for the people doing the work.
A beautiful collection nobody works in
The collection went out in the newsletter, it looked good, and forty people opened it. Three weeks later the team still pastes the same six links into chat, because the published page is a thing you send to other people, not a thing you keep open while you work. Curation and publication are different jobs, and tools that only do the second one leave the first one on a spreadsheet.
The governance gap shows up right after that. When someone leaves the organization, who owns the collections they made? When a volunteer needs to read the resource list but must not edit it, what stops them? Publishing tools are built to be seen, so they rarely answer either question.
The public side is still there
Any board can be published as a public page at a clean URL. Pick one of five themes - Classic, Gallery, Launcher, Showcase, Card Grid - add a header image and a tagline, and give each link a description and an image so the page reads as a curated thing rather than a raw list.
Control comes with it. A share link can carry a password, or you can require an account to view, which is the difference between a resource page for a community and one for a cohort. Publishing public pages is a Business-plan feature; if you also want your own logo on the app, the extension, the new tab, and the published pages, white-label sits on the same plan.
The private side is the part that keeps
Wakelet is a publishing format; Linksley is a working file that happens to publish.Behind the public page, the same board is a working surface with permissions: share with people or groups, cap anyone at view-only (enforced in the app and in the extension), and hand out Can share deliberately rather than by default.
Admins can push a required board that members cannot remove - the safeguarding policy, the tool list, the current campaign. Offboarding is a single revoke, every link stays with the workspace, and a board can be reassigned to a successor. That is the difference between a curated collection and an organizational asset.
Where curation pays off during the day
The browser extension can make your boards the new tab page, rendered instantly from a local cache and searchable from the same screen. The new tab is the most opened page of a working day, so a resource list living there gets used rather than admired. Saving is a keyboard shortcut, a right-click, or the extension popup.
Boards also carry text blocks for context, checklists with a recurring cadence, and read-only calendars from ICS feeds, so a program board can hold the links, the weekly routine, and the dates in one place.
When Wakelet is the right answer
For narrative, media-rich storytelling - a collection that carries a reader from one item to the next with embedded media and text between them - Wakelet is genuinely good, and Linksley is not competing there. Linksley pages present links attractively; they do not tell a story.
Moving is straightforward and reversible. Import browser bookmarks HTML, Toby JSON, Raindrop CSV or Pocket CSV from Import and export in the sidebar, each landing as a board with categories, and export standard bookmarks HTML whenever you want, on every plan.
Common questions
Can I publish a Linksley board as a public page?
Yes. A board can be published at a clean URL with one of five themes, a header image, a tagline, and a description under each link. Creating public pages is a Business-plan feature.
Can I restrict who sees a published board?
Yes. A share link can be password protected, or you can require viewers to have an account. For internal collections, share the board itself with named people or groups instead of publishing it.
What happens when a staff member or volunteer leaves?
Revoke their access in one action. Every link stays with the workspace, and their boards can be reassigned to whoever takes over.
Is Wakelet still better for some things?
Yes. For narrative, media-rich storytelling collections, Wakelet does that well. Linksley is for link collections that people work in daily and need permissions on.
One board, two audiences
Publish the page for the world and keep the working version governed - start free on one board.
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