I like plain text; it looks clean and tidy. I think I'll give this a try.
Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
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Re: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
#42This is needed, TIL but only till recently did Firefox remove their bookmarks limit, it was something like 6000 about 3 years ago.
(For those curious about why one needs so many bookmarks, similar to maybe some other people, I use the bookmark feature as a "like" to save articles/URLs I find interesting).
Re: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
#43My way of managing bookmarks is to just print the page as a PDF, save PDF in a Google Drive folder. Then you can do full text search quickly.
Re: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
#44I actually do this. I put urls and files in a text file. Which I parse with rofi. The reason why I do this is so I can just open rofi with a shortcut and type out the name of the file or url and instantly open it.
Re: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
#45I think that people who say they prefer keeping a simple file has never found a good app for bookmarking. There is still a space for killer app with bookmarks.
I think that simple URL bookmarking is just wrong. It simply will not work for big bookmarking data sets. The key is using tags, and rating system, and automatic update which checks if URLs are even valid any more.
I also thought that we miss a killer RSS app.
That is why I created my own self-hosted app.
- it can store bookmarks
- it gather news through RSS
- it provides tags (I can search bookmarks by tags)
- it provides user ratings (I can filter using it too)
- I can filter, or order by link, date of publish, date of creation, etc. etc.
- It checks if links are rotten (and marks them)
- I can mark link to read it for later
- I can see how many times I have visited a link
- I can check 'related links' to jump to things I have jump before from this link
On the other hand, I am quite certain that I use it, because it is 'tailored for me'. I am not that interested in the looks. I know how it works
- https://rumca-js.github.io/search - demo search
- https://rumca-js.github.io/music - demo music
- https://rumca-js.github.io/bookmarks - demo bookmarks
- https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database - database of bookmarks
- https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database - link meta information
- https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive - main crawling engine using for all databases
Re: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
#46I never really used browser bookmarks until I discovered Firefox's bookmark keyword feature [1]. It basically eliminates the search step. For example, I set "pr" to the GitHub pull request page. Just press Alt + D to focus the address bar, type the keyword, and hit Enter. [1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarks-firefox#w_how...
I don't know why nobody uses that feature. I have quite a few. For example, Wikipedia (w), Wiktionary (wt), Go docs (go), ...
Saves me a middleman request.
Re: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
#47This is needed, TIL but only till recently did Firefox remove their bookmarks limit, it was something like 6000 about 3 years ago. (For those curious about why one needs so many bookmarks, similar to maybe some other people, I use the bookmark feature as a "like" to save articles/URLs I find interesting).
Same, I have many folders with subfolders of related stuff, and on top, I have "sessions" as well, and lots of notes (Vivaldi).
Re: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
#48Mozilla-based browsers used to (before Firefox 3, I believe) store bookmarks as HTML (bookmarks.html) instead of using an SQLite database. It still uses a single HTML file when exporting or importing bookmarks.
I was wondering if someone else would remember this.
Remember? I just exported bookmarks as a HTML a few days ago. :o
Re: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
#49Just in case, If you want to index the content of these bookmarks for searching maybe my little wip tool face is useful to you. As it’s also a local server you can use a keyword search in browsers for it. https://github.com/svandragt/fafi
Re: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
#50Bookmarks are something I have grown tired of. From the days of del.icio.us, I started collecting bookmarks and it kind of trickled along almost until Pinboard went on life support (or something else if you'd prefer to call that). The thing is - I just saved bookmarks, I never really utilised them ever, to find something, to go back to. I can remember once or twice and either I couldn't find anything among my bookmar…
you can write a program which randomly opens up a bookmark so you can get notified at least per some day/week.