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Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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post #19

> No limits on storage. just need a BBD module (bookmark block device) and boom free unlimited disk backups

About to encode my photo library as a set of "data:image/jpeg;base64" URLs...

ah, been done haha

Show HN: BookmarkFS – Store files as Chrome bookmarks that sync between devices

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32887863

Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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I wrote bookmark manager in Django.

https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive

You can self host it.

You can add RSS sources and auto import new links regularly.

It may not be stare of the art, but gets the job done.

Demo below, but may not be working when you look at it. It runs on raspberry pi.

https://renegat0x0.ddns.net/apps/catalog/entry/11503/

Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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I currently use Firefox bookmarks, synced through my Mozilla account. What would be the advantages for me if I were to use Webtag? Related: does anyone know if there's any limit to synced bookmarks/history in Firefox?

Do you ever feel like Firefox is forgetting your bookmarks or search is bad? Not endorsing this project or any other, but from time to time I’m a bit suspicious that firefox is dropping some links I’m sure I saved/not surfacing some links I’m fairly sure were related to my search. Likely all in my head though!

The search is bad.

Example: If you tag one entry with "meta" and another with "metaverse", then search bookmarks for "meta", you'll get the union of anything containing meta. Particularly problematic in the case of short terms like "ux", "go", or "c".

Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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I love the homepage, simple and clean! Any screenshots of how it looks for logged users?

I noticed it uses MongoDB. That seems like an overkill to me, have you considered SQLite?

if you are open to taking feature requests:

- ability to add random notes

- any submitted link should be captured in archive / wayback machine

- (complicated) search within the submitted links content

Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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I currently use Firefox bookmarks, synced through my Mozilla account. What would be the advantages for me if I were to use Webtag? Related: does anyone know if there's any limit to synced bookmarks/history in Firefox?

Why should somebody try to convince you in either direction? I can't see how it would matter to any other person how you specifically choose to sync your bookmarks.

Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you ever feel like Firefox is forgetting your bookmarks or search is bad? Not endorsing this project or any other, but from time to time I’m a bit suspicious that firefox is dropping some links I’m sure I saved/not surfacing some links I’m fairly sure were related to my search. Likely all in my head though!

The search is bad. Example: If you tag one entry with "meta" and another with "metaverse", then search bookmarks for "meta", you'll get the union of anything containing meta. Particularly problematic in the case of short terms like "ux", "go", or "c".

Use the search filters.

> Add ^ to show only matches in your browsing history.

> Add * to show only matches in your bookmarks.

> Add + to show only matches in bookmarks you've tagged.

> Add % to show only matches in your currently open tabs.

> Add # to show only matches where every search term is part of the title or part of a tag.

> Add $ to show only matches where every search term is part of the web address (URL). The text “https://xn--ivg or “http://xn--ivg in the URL is ignored, but not “file:///”.

> Add ? to show only search suggestions.

You can select the search constraint in the dropdown if you don't want to memorize the list.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet...

Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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post #13

If you ever used w3m, it uses a local bookmark file. Something like this: $ cat ~/.w3m/bookmark.html Bookmarks Bookmarks Searches Google Time Sink Hacker News

Looks like a variation of the Netscape bookmark format.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/...

Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The search is bad. Example: If you tag one entry with "meta" and another with "metaverse", then search bookmarks for "meta", you'll get the union of anything containing meta. Particularly problematic in the case of short terms like "ux", "go", or "c".

Use the search filters. > Add ^ to show only matches in your browsing history. > Add * to show only matches in your bookmarks. > Add + to show only matches in bookmarks you've tagged. > Add % to show only matches in your currently open tabs. > Add # to show only matches where every search term is part of the title or part of a tag. > Add $ to show only matches where every search term is part of the web address (URL).…

I meant in the bookmark search, the search box which appears after pressing cmd/ctrl-b.

This is still an interesting workaround, I'll give a shot. Thanks!

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