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Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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Post by asdffdasasdf »

toastercat wrote: post #33
skilled wrote: post #11

Why did browsers fail when it comes to bookmark management? I mean seriously, it is arguably one of the most important features for organising your digital life and the best that a browser vendor can do is “folders”? This has always baffled me. Who enjoys opening their bookmarks and seeing 500 links in an unordered list? Metadata has been a thing for how long now, and yet no browser that I know of has gone ahead and…

For what it's worth, I gave up on all external bookmark tools and went back to using Firefox's built-in bookmark manager. I enjoy that it's a CTRL+B away to see all my bookmarks, and that I'm able to sync it with my Firefox account.

With a s* for brains search.

It fails to search anything, even it's own folders! or parts of the url. or the tags that gets added and removed from the UI every now and then and are ignored in search.

heck there's a 18yr old bug about performance being so bad in this search that if you have over 1k bookmarks it will just hang for several seconds.

edit: that said, i also use firefox bookmarks exclusively, but just for the (only one true in the entire industry) e2e server backups. Then i just manually export them and search outside of firefox, which sucks.

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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Post by asdffdasasdf »

talkingtab wrote: post #3

It would be helpful to have an overview of how to use this. I understand that I run a docker image, but what does it do? Do I have a bookmarklet? Can I import and reorg my saved bookmarks? Does it tie in with Chrome or Firefox saved bookmarks? Etc? Thanks!

(for now?) it's just a sample webapp. Like those TO-DO lists exercises. It have a dozen random metrics dashboards about how many bookmarks you add per day etc but not a single use case is done yet.

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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Post by asdffdasasdf »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #13

After delicious and pinboard I am done with bookmarks. You know why? Because I never access them ever again and if I do, and that is ridiculously rare, finding them elsewhere in is actually easier and faster. I am all for cute little services and one app for one need, but bookmarks for me are not a need at all. Whatever little need it has are squarely served by the browser’s bookmark service and I think all of them h…

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Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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Post by otteromkram »

progbits wrote: post #15
duiker101 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is when I suddenly remember something I saw a month ago that is now relevant and I can't find it anymore. That's why I preemptively bookmark interesting stuff

This. I also edit the bookmark title to include a bunch of keywords. Finding an article I have only a vague recollection of on the wide web can be hard, but finding it in my bookmarks is easy. I was a big del.icio.us user back in the day, maybe self hosting something like the OP is the way to go.

> This.

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Isn't submitting a response enough to convince the rest of us plebs that you agree or have other strong feelings about the parent comment?

Chances are good that, unless you're James Joyce, folks will read through the entirety of your statement to draw inflection from what you've conveyed.

When you don't agree with the parent comment, have you kicked things off with, "Not this" or, more succinctly, "!This" before making your counterpoint?

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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Post by otteromkram »

barefeg wrote: post #12
9dev wrote: post #4

Aside. I completely stopped using book marks. Everything relevant to me will be an open tab, and closed once read or no longer useful; everything not immediately relevant enough to warrant an open tab will probably not be read anyway, or the link broken once I get back to it. This has made my digital life a lot less burdensome to manage, and it also felt freeing to drop all that unorganised baggage. To all those book…

Have you tried the arc browser? It embraces having lots of open tabs and organize them as you wish (or not) https://arc.net/

I updated their slogan just now:

"Firefox is the Chrome replacement I've already been using."

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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Post by andygeorge »

otteromkram wrote: post #64
progbits wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This. I also edit the bookmark title to include a bunch of keywords. Finding an article I have only a vague recollection of on the wide web can be hard, but finding it in my bookmarks is easy. I was a big del.icio.us user back in the day, maybe self hosting something like the OP is the way to go.

> This. ... Isn't submitting a response enough to convince the rest of us plebs that you agree or have other strong feelings about the parent comment? Chances are good that, unless you're James Joyce, folks will read through the entirety of your statement to draw inflection from what you've conveyed. When you don't agree with the parent comment, have you kicked things off with, "Not this" or, more succinctly, "!This"…

this isn't it

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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Ringz wrote: post #41

My perfect bookmark manager is Markdownload https://github.com/deathau/markdownload Just save the complete page, only selected text or only the link to a markdown file or Obsidian. With downloaded, linked or without pictures. My OS and Obsidian can search those files, they have more (automatically added) metadata. I can even edit them in the browser: add your thoughts, tags or change the name of the file before they…

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Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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9dev wrote: post #4

Aside. I completely stopped using book marks. Everything relevant to me will be an open tab, and closed once read or no longer useful; everything not immediately relevant enough to warrant an open tab will probably not be read anyway, or the link broken once I get back to it. This has made my digital life a lot less burdensome to manage, and it also felt freeing to drop all that unorganised baggage. To all those book…

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Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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marginalia_nu wrote: post #54
skilled wrote: post #11

Why did browsers fail when it comes to bookmark management? I mean seriously, it is arguably one of the most important features for organising your digital life and the best that a browser vendor can do is “folders”? This has always baffled me. Who enjoys opening their bookmarks and seeing 500 links in an unordered list? Metadata has been a thing for how long now, and yet no browser that I know of has gone ahead and…

Chrome doesn't want you to use anything other than Google to mediate web access. Makes business sense for a search company to build a browser that is basically just a search bar. Other browsers copied their homework. Makes less sense.

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Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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[deleted] wrote: post #69
marginalia_nu wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chrome doesn't want you to use anything other than Google to mediate web access. Makes business sense for a search company to build a browser that is basically just a search bar. Other browsers copied their homework. Makes less sense.

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