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More firm than ever in my decision to store bookmarks in a simple, grep-able text file.

bloopernova 5y ago
I like Firefox's bookmarks. You can add tags to each bookmark, which can make sorting and finding them much easier. I also use a default bookmark folder, so all new bookmarks just go into that one folder, with the most recent at the top of the folder. That means I'm relying more on the position, tags, and naming to find a bookmark, rather than a position in a hierarchy. I keep meaning to research how to extract/sync from the SQLite database that Firefox uses for bookmarks. I feel like there's a lot of unexplored personal value to one's bookmarks and history.
- dandanua 5y ago
  Firefox bookmarks tagging is a killer feature for me. I even bookmark some local files through it. Too bad it doesn't work on mobile.
  - bloopernova 5y ago
    What I'd like to be able to do is unify the tags between Firefox and my Emacs org-roam/org-mode data. I think it could be useful to be able to see a view of which bookmarks have the same tags as the document I'm viewing, and vice-versa. Plus a timeline of tags/bookmarks/documents/pages could further bring to light some relationships between information. For instance, "around the time I was writing lots of stuff about AWS IAM roles, I bookmarked these pages, read these sites, browsed these tags". It's only a half-formed idea and unfortunately it'd require both lots of Emacs elisp work and an extension in Firefox.
    - gbrindisi 5y ago
      I wanted to do the same, and in the end gave up in favour of a simpler approach: I drop the bookmarks in my notes, I can tag as I please, less moving parts and it's easier to search. But I would still like to see someone figuring this out!
- Tagbert 5y ago
  You can export your FF bookmarks to an html file and you can backup your FF bookmarks to a json file.
- lswank 5y ago
  I didn't know this before, but wow, now I really like Firefox's bookmarks. I feel like there's a lot of unexplored personal value to one's bookmarks and history. Thank you for your comment. I've been using Firefox for years, but I've never paid attention too this before. I just tested this and yeah . . . I am going to be using this a lot. This comment was generated by GPT-3 because somehow signing up for the sandbox and telling it to rewrite my comment was more fulfilling than just typing a comment. I tried to get it to give you a generic thanks with specifics of how I would use this . . . but GPT-3 kinda sucks for this. Oh, well.
discardedrefuse 5y ago
I switched to xBrowserSync a while back and its been a game changer. Your bookmarks are encrypted on the client before uploading and you can self-host your own server if you want. My bookmarks now live independently from my browser. Between that and BitWarden for passwords, I am no longer tied to any browser on any device. Its so easy to browser hop now. Also...turns out keeping scores of folders, inside folders, inside more folders is a terrible way to organize bookmarks; Tags w/ search is the way to go!

I like Firefox's bookmarks. You can add tags to each bookmark, which can make sorting and finding them much easier. I also use a default bookmark folder, so all new bookmarks just go into that one folder, with the most recent at the top of the folder. That means I'm relying more on the position, tags, and naming to find a bookmark, rather than a position in a hierarchy. I keep meaning to research how to extract/sync from the SQLite database that Firefox uses for bookmarks. I feel like there's a lot of unexplored personal value to one's bookmarks and history.

dandanua 5y ago
Firefox bookmarks tagging is a killer feature for me. I even bookmark some local files through it. Too bad it doesn't work on mobile.
- bloopernova 5y ago
  What I'd like to be able to do is unify the tags between Firefox and my Emacs org-roam/org-mode data. I think it could be useful to be able to see a view of which bookmarks have the same tags as the document I'm viewing, and vice-versa. Plus a timeline of tags/bookmarks/documents/pages could further bring to light some relationships between information. For instance, "around the time I was writing lots of stuff about AWS IAM roles, I bookmarked these pages, read these sites, browsed these tags". It's only a half-formed idea and unfortunately it'd require both lots of Emacs elisp work and an extension in Firefox.
  - gbrindisi 5y ago
    I wanted to do the same, and in the end gave up in favour of a simpler approach: I drop the bookmarks in my notes, I can tag as I please, less moving parts and it's easier to search. But I would still like to see someone figuring this out!
Tagbert 5y ago
You can export your FF bookmarks to an html file and you can backup your FF bookmarks to a json file.
lswank 5y ago
I didn't know this before, but wow, now I really like Firefox's bookmarks. I feel like there's a lot of unexplored personal value to one's bookmarks and history. Thank you for your comment. I've been using Firefox for years, but I've never paid attention too this before. I just tested this and yeah . . . I am going to be using this a lot. This comment was generated by GPT-3 because somehow signing up for the sandbox and telling it to rewrite my comment was more fulfilling than just typing a comment. I tried to get it to give you a generic thanks with specifics of how I would use this . . . but GPT-3 kinda sucks for this. Oh, well.

discardedrefuse 5y ago

I switched to xBrowserSync a while back and its been a game changer. Your bookmarks are encrypted on the client before uploading and you can self-host your own server if you want. My bookmarks now live independently from my browser. Between that and BitWarden for passwords, I am no longer tied to any browser on any device. Its so easy to browser hop now. Also...turns out keeping scores of folders, inside folders, inside more folders is a terrible way to organize bookmarks; Tags w/ search is the way to go!