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Buku v2.5 – Powerful command-line bookmark manager

53 points by apjana 10y ago

mwexler 10y ago
Perhaps more useful to link to the main page, https://github.com/jarun/Buku https://github.com/jarun/Buku. From that page: "buku is a powerful bookmark management utility written in Python3 and SQLite3. When I started writing it, I couldn't find a flexible cmdline solution with a private, portable, merge-able database along with browser integration. Hence, buku (after my son's nickname)."
dancek 10y ago
What's the use case for an advanced bookmark manager? Managing (online) scientific references our such? I find that even with a couple of folders of bookmarks in my browser, reading something later just doesn't happen in practice. And for reference sites that I might need later, the browser bookmark system is more than enough. Is it just me?
- metamaker 10y ago
  Nope, I feel exactly your way. That is why I started keeping links in Wunderlist in separate todos list and using Speed Dial to keep my oftenly used links.
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- apjana 10y ago
  Maintainer of `Buku` here. I agree. In the latest release we have pushed an Easter Egg to open random (and probably forgotten) bookmarks which you can revisit once in a while.
- pkaye 10y ago
  I feel the same way as you in that I rarely read something that I bookmark. However either I may want to read the contents later or I do want to read it but am too busy. The end result is a pile of bookmarks that I wish to keep safely and if there was a better way to automatically organize and search easily.
- setr 10y ago
  I have ~300 things between 40 or so folders in my chrome bookmarks atm, and about ~150 tabs that I need to get around to bookmarking. Main issue using the normal manager is that it's not actually that easy to parse my folders, and it's troublesome to reorganize Main reason I keep so many tabs is to send them to people when it comes up in conversation That'd be why I'd consider buku anyways Also in the back of my head is auto-pushing bookmarks to wayback and replacing the bookmark link with the wayback copy ala gwern.net; presumably doing that with sqlite would be simpler than some kind of chrome plugin
- jsilence 10y ago
  I have the same experience. Bookmarks only are of little value. I think this situation would be better for me if the bookmark manager would download the page, if possible extract the main content part sans the navigation and teaser boxes and built a searchable full text index from that. Optionally a snapshot of the page could be useful. For that I am misusing Zotero and the Zotero FF plugin. Apart from managing papers I have to read I also keep track of informative web pages. With sing Buku, emacs integration instantly came to my mind. Could be useful with the W3 browser mode or other modes that display URLs.
- komali2 10y ago
  I usually have folders of stuff that I want to blog about later (consolidate a bunch of tutorials or articles on some aspect of Backbone or whatever into a single post) or mass-send people who are going down paths I've once gone down, for example learning Chinese or learning Javascript.
majkinetor 10y ago
This is epic and something really needed. All current bokmark managers sux IMO more or less. However, without browser and mobile plugins I wouldnt touch it. I use digo free now and the great thing about it, is it works everywhere directly in browser. Its also exportable locally. I dont like its bulk management.
- apjana 10y ago
  It did cross our minds. But the future of browser plugins is quite uncertain (security issues, memory usage concerns...). Buku is browser compatible... you can add bookmarks from anywhere on Linux and OS X without touching the terminal or export Buku database as HTML and import it (ref: https://github.com/jarun/Buku#gui-integration https://github.com/jarun/Buku#gui-integration). We do have a ToDo list item for an Android app.
  - fbender 10y ago
    If you are referring to browser add-ons (and not Plugins), the future couldn't be brighter: Multiple vendors, including Mozilla and Microsoft, are converging on a "Web Extensions" standard that is based on the Chrome extension API (but neither a strict subset nor superset). Hence, it is far easier to write extensions for multiple browsers with a (largely) single codebase.
    - apjana 10y ago
      Yes, I meant add-ons. Thanks, I'll check it out.
      - fbender 10y ago
        If you miss any necessary APIs, contact the Mozilla folks working on the Firefox implementation of WebExtensions (e.g. via bugzilla.mozilla.org). They are usually pretty reactive to (sensible and well thought out) proposals to extend the API capabilites (and reduce the gap to their other APIs). If you need any help, drop me a message @fbender_dev on Twitter or @fbender on Github.
majkinetor 10y ago
This is epic and something really needed. All current bokmark managers sux IMO more or less. However, without browser and mobile plugins I wouldnt touch it. I use digo free now and the great thing about it, is it works everywhere directly in browser. Its also exportable locally. I dont like its bulk management.
sctb 10y ago
Previous discussion of the project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11712122 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11712122
HAL9OOO 10y ago
https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/ Is a bookmark manager I highly recommend. It has lots of extensions/apps written for it and is a barebones but powerful bookmark manager with tags. I have about 4k bookmarks on it right now.
- apjana 10y ago
  Buku is open source and free. In addition, it intends to be a private solution by design.
hyuuu 10y ago
curious on the naming, because it means "book" in my language, is this intentional?
- apjana 10y ago
  It's after my son's nickname. In my language it doesn't mean anything in particular.
nuex 10y ago
I wrote a 149 sloc shellscript that also solves this: https://github.com/nuex/note https://github.com/nuex/note.

53 points by apjana 10y ago

Perhaps more useful to link to the main page, https://github.com/jarun/Buku https://github.com/jarun/Buku. From that page: "buku is a powerful bookmark management utility written in Python3 and SQLite3. When I started writing it, I couldn't find a flexible cmdline solution with a private, portable, merge-able database along with browser integration. Hence, buku (after my son's nickname)."

dancek 10y ago

What's the use case for an advanced bookmark manager? Managing (online) scientific references our such? I find that even with a couple of folders of bookmarks in my browser, reading something later just doesn't happen in practice. And for reference sites that I might need later, the browser bookmark system is more than enough. Is it just me?

metamaker 10y ago
Nope, I feel exactly your way. That is why I started keeping links in Wunderlist in separate todos list and using Speed Dial to keep my oftenly used links.
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apjana 10y ago
Maintainer of `Buku` here. I agree. In the latest release we have pushed an Easter Egg to open random (and probably forgotten) bookmarks which you can revisit once in a while.
pkaye 10y ago
I feel the same way as you in that I rarely read something that I bookmark. However either I may want to read the contents later or I do want to read it but am too busy. The end result is a pile of bookmarks that I wish to keep safely and if there was a better way to automatically organize and search easily.
setr 10y ago
I have ~300 things between 40 or so folders in my chrome bookmarks atm, and about ~150 tabs that I need to get around to bookmarking. Main issue using the normal manager is that it's not actually that easy to parse my folders, and it's troublesome to reorganize Main reason I keep so many tabs is to send them to people when it comes up in conversation That'd be why I'd consider buku anyways Also in the back of my head is auto-pushing bookmarks to wayback and replacing the bookmark link with the wayback copy ala gwern.net; presumably doing that with sqlite would be simpler than some kind of chrome plugin
jsilence 10y ago
I have the same experience. Bookmarks only are of little value. I think this situation would be better for me if the bookmark manager would download the page, if possible extract the main content part sans the navigation and teaser boxes and built a searchable full text index from that. Optionally a snapshot of the page could be useful. For that I am misusing Zotero and the Zotero FF plugin. Apart from managing papers I have to read I also keep track of informative web pages. With sing Buku, emacs integration instantly came to my mind. Could be useful with the W3 browser mode or other modes that display URLs.
komali2 10y ago
I usually have folders of stuff that I want to blog about later (consolidate a bunch of tutorials or articles on some aspect of Backbone or whatever into a single post) or mass-send people who are going down paths I've once gone down, for example learning Chinese or learning Javascript.

majkinetor 10y ago

This is epic and something really needed. All current bokmark managers sux IMO more or less. However, without browser and mobile plugins I wouldnt touch it. I use digo free now and the great thing about it, is it works everywhere directly in browser. Its also exportable locally. I dont like its bulk management.

apjana 10y ago
It did cross our minds. But the future of browser plugins is quite uncertain (security issues, memory usage concerns...). Buku is browser compatible... you can add bookmarks from anywhere on Linux and OS X without touching the terminal or export Buku database as HTML and import it (ref: https://github.com/jarun/Buku#gui-integration https://github.com/jarun/Buku#gui-integration). We do have a ToDo list item for an Android app.
- fbender 10y ago
  If you are referring to browser add-ons (and not Plugins), the future couldn't be brighter: Multiple vendors, including Mozilla and Microsoft, are converging on a "Web Extensions" standard that is based on the Chrome extension API (but neither a strict subset nor superset). Hence, it is far easier to write extensions for multiple browsers with a (largely) single codebase.
  - apjana 10y ago
    Yes, I meant add-ons. Thanks, I'll check it out.
    - fbender 10y ago
      If you miss any necessary APIs, contact the Mozilla folks working on the Firefox implementation of WebExtensions (e.g. via bugzilla.mozilla.org). They are usually pretty reactive to (sensible and well thought out) proposals to extend the API capabilites (and reduce the gap to their other APIs). If you need any help, drop me a message @fbender_dev on Twitter or @fbender on Github.

majkinetor 10y ago

sctb 10y ago

Previous discussion of the project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11712122 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11712122

HAL9OOO 10y ago

https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/ Is a bookmark manager I highly recommend. It has lots of extensions/apps written for it and is a barebones but powerful bookmark manager with tags. I have about 4k bookmarks on it right now.

apjana 10y ago
Buku is open source and free. In addition, it intends to be a private solution by design.

hyuuu 10y ago

curious on the naming, because it means "book" in my language, is this intentional?

apjana 10y ago
It's after my son's nickname. In my language it doesn't mean anything in particular.

nuex 10y ago

I wrote a 149 sloc shellscript that also solves this: https://github.com/nuex/note https://github.com/nuex/note.