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You're not alone, I want even more: or load a window with all my productivity SaaS sites. I want to open a tab with a page that's an index consisting of the b
by narag 4y ago
You're not alone, I want even more:
or load a window with all my productivity SaaS sites.
I want to open a tab with a page that's an index consisting of the bookmarks of some folder in the bookmarks bar. That's obvious to me: when I'm researching some topic, I drag the interesting finds onto a folder in that bar.
Once I have a list for consulting later, I would like that list to be presented as a list of links, much like Hacker News front page, not as a menu. Menus are BAD ui for links.
Of course I'd like to add icons, re-order, save, nest, group by month, etc.
I've found that Firefox saves all bookmarks (and history) to a sqlite database, so it must be easy to program a little tool to do most things I want.
- littlecranky67 4y agoYou can do mostly that in Firefox itself. Bringing up the bookmarks side pane (CMD+B on a mac). Right click on any folder -> "Open all bookmarks" will open the full folder. Creating folders and subfolders is as good as categorizing will get, so you could organize your bookmarks by month by creating folders per month. I also recommend using Firefox Containers (mostly for privacy and security reasons), and then you can also reorder you open tabs by container.
- narag 4y agoThank you, but that's not what I meant. I don't want to open all bookmarks. I want to list them in HTML, like the front page of this very site. Actually that was how Firefox used to export bookmarks, as one HTML page with clickable links. Edit: I've just checked and Firefox still can export the whole bookmarks collection. What I would love is the option to export just a folder, not the entire database. Edit2: Now, if I just want to export a folder, I must export the whole thing, open the result in a text editor and paste the html in some of my "launcher pages".
- littlecranky67 4y agoI don't see a big difference with having them in a HTML page, vs. the side bar. You get a full list of your bookmarks with icons in a vertical-sorted way, including search. What difference does it make?
- narag 4y agoIt makes a big difference to me. I use what you say sparingly for organizing, but once it's sorted, there are several shortcomings: limited horizontal space, the fixed presentation (it would be nice to add notes or images, change sizes, etc.) and in general the fact that it's an internal format that I can't manipulate. To summarize: I don't want just a way to launch the bookmarked pages, but to create a page based on a list of bookmarks that can contain more than the bookmarks themselves. A related feature (related for me anyway) is backing up pages. I use the extension SingleFile, but I would love to have a system integrating bookmarking, authoring and local backup. I guess you'd understand me better knowing my workflow when I'm collecting information for some new topic: searches, visiting a dozen of pages, following links, selecting what's useful... the bits of information are spread across pages. I need to keep the links for reference (better with both the bookmark and a local backup), but often it's much more convenient to make a page with text snippets, maybe including images. Anything that makes this easier is useful to me.
- littlecranky67 4y agoOkay I get your usecase, but adding images and notes to bookmarks seems to be a very rare/custom/fringe feature request (not even Opera had this), so I wouldn't see firefox or chrome here neglecting their users. Sounds like something for an external tool or extension.
- narag 4y agoActually the only thing I want is "bookmark folder as HTML list" to clipboard, to file or similar. I didn't say anything about neglect, this is no trial :)