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Add Chrome bookmarks like a boss

14 points by ahmadassaf 12y ago

Physlet 12y ago
I tried pressing CMD+B and CTRL+B and it didn't work on Chrome for Mac OS X.
- ahmadassaf 12y ago
  thats strange .. it should work using either of them. Can you please check if you get any error messages in the console
clonardo 12y ago
This looks pretty nice. I've been using Recent Bookmarks (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps?hl=en), but it's not exactly helping the bookmark proliferation problem.
RubyPinch 12y ago
is this running javascript in the page? can someone make a page to extract all bookmarks it sees?
Immortalin 12y ago
It would be really great if you can add an option to use a custom sync provider e.g. Dropbox, drive. onedrive etc. alongside the default chrome sync. The default chrome sync tend to create huge amounts of duplicate bookmarks when used across multiple devices and sorting through them is not fun...
- ahmadassaf 12y ago
  i disabled chrome sync for my bookmarks because as you said it keeps making duplicates. I use xmarks instead, but for sure this can very well be a nice feature to have
hoers 12y ago
Cool idea! How about adding functionality to open already saved bookmarks as well (and in the long run adding folders etc)? Then I could picture this becoming my main bookmarks manager.
- ahmadassaf 12y ago
  am glad you liked it :) definitely this is on my to-do list. I am already getting back the urls but i am brainstorming on how to present them nicely on the same UI. Also to make it better i am thinking of making the filtering smarter by doing a fuzzy search instead of just (:contains).
  - hoers 12y ago
    Have you ever used Alfred (on OSX)? Maybe take some inspiration from there? It let's you access a lot of different features by using one-key-modifiers in the search box, like: - Just type something: will search applications - Hit Space before typing: will search all files - If you just hit enter on a file it will open it, CMD+Enter will open the containing folder ..etc etc. I could picture something like this: - Selecting a folder via fuzzy search + arrow keys and hitting enter to add a bookmark - Hitting space before typing to search and open existing bookmarks - ":" in the beginning to only search folders - "." in the beginning to create a folder .. as crude examples. I might look into your project next week and maybe work on a fork for functions like this. With a bit of work I think this could become a wonderful extension!
    - ahmadassaf 12y ago
      thats great .. ive been using alfred but really as a simple app launcher. I will try and see if i can implement some early version of theses ideas. I am also thinking of being able to search opened tabs as well. I hope you will have time as well to contribute and hopefully turn this out into something cool
      - mtrn 12y ago
        A nice search experience over some personal web space is still kind of missing. Great to see that you are continuing to explore and implement things in this space. It was fun working on some of them with you at Hackzurich.
thehoff 12y ago
Is having this many bookmarks common? Watching the video I can't imagine how you keep all that straight. Personally I try to keep my bookmarks to a minimum. I find that when my list gets large I don't even remember what I bookmarked.
- ahmadassaf 12y ago
  well i guess i have some sort of OCD when it comes to bookmarking. It took me lots of time to organise them and i kinda remember most of them. However the reason for this extension is to make my life easier :)
ahmadassaf 12y ago
I've just published a new version. Features - Filter bookmarks based on manual entry - Show the path of the current selected folder - Navigate easily through the folders tree using keyboard (if the folder is highlighted in blue this means that it contains sub-folders as well. The right arrow (->) keyboard key will go inside that folder. You can go back one step to the back using the left keyboard arrow (<-)) - Bookmark directly when you find your target - The ability to switch to urls search [NEW] - Launching urls in current or new tab [NEW] - Fuzzy search enabled for filtering on both folders and urls [NEW] - Clean current URL before bookmarking (sometimes the url is polluted with query strings e.g ?source= ... for various tracking information). To clean the url from those, hit ctrl+alt+x and this will solve this issue.

14 points by ahmadassaf 12y ago

Physlet 12y ago

I tried pressing CMD+B and CTRL+B and it didn't work on Chrome for Mac OS X.

ahmadassaf 12y ago
thats strange .. it should work using either of them. Can you please check if you get any error messages in the console

clonardo 12y ago

This looks pretty nice. I've been using Recent Bookmarks (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps?hl=en), but it's not exactly helping the bookmark proliferation problem.

RubyPinch 12y ago

is this running javascript in the page? can someone make a page to extract all bookmarks it sees?

Immortalin 12y ago

It would be really great if you can add an option to use a custom sync provider e.g. Dropbox, drive. onedrive etc. alongside the default chrome sync. The default chrome sync tend to create huge amounts of duplicate bookmarks when used across multiple devices and sorting through them is not fun...

ahmadassaf 12y ago
i disabled chrome sync for my bookmarks because as you said it keeps making duplicates. I use xmarks instead, but for sure this can very well be a nice feature to have

hoers 12y ago

Cool idea! How about adding functionality to open already saved bookmarks as well (and in the long run adding folders etc)? Then I could picture this becoming my main bookmarks manager.

ahmadassaf 12y ago
am glad you liked it :) definitely this is on my to-do list. I am already getting back the urls but i am brainstorming on how to present them nicely on the same UI. Also to make it better i am thinking of making the filtering smarter by doing a fuzzy search instead of just (:contains).
- hoers 12y ago
  Have you ever used Alfred (on OSX)? Maybe take some inspiration from there? It let's you access a lot of different features by using one-key-modifiers in the search box, like: - Just type something: will search applications - Hit Space before typing: will search all files - If you just hit enter on a file it will open it, CMD+Enter will open the containing folder ..etc etc. I could picture something like this: - Selecting a folder via fuzzy search + arrow keys and hitting enter to add a bookmark - Hitting space before typing to search and open existing bookmarks - ":" in the beginning to only search folders - "." in the beginning to create a folder .. as crude examples. I might look into your project next week and maybe work on a fork for functions like this. With a bit of work I think this could become a wonderful extension!
  - ahmadassaf 12y ago
    thats great .. ive been using alfred but really as a simple app launcher. I will try and see if i can implement some early version of theses ideas. I am also thinking of being able to search opened tabs as well. I hope you will have time as well to contribute and hopefully turn this out into something cool
    - mtrn 12y ago
      A nice search experience over some personal web space is still kind of missing. Great to see that you are continuing to explore and implement things in this space. It was fun working on some of them with you at Hackzurich.

thehoff 12y ago

Is having this many bookmarks common? Watching the video I can't imagine how you keep all that straight. Personally I try to keep my bookmarks to a minimum. I find that when my list gets large I don't even remember what I bookmarked.

ahmadassaf 12y ago
well i guess i have some sort of OCD when it comes to bookmarking. It took me lots of time to organise them and i kinda remember most of them. However the reason for this extension is to make my life easier :)

ahmadassaf 12y ago

I've just published a new version. Features - Filter bookmarks based on manual entry - Show the path of the current selected folder - Navigate easily through the folders tree using keyboard (if the folder is highlighted in blue this means that it contains sub-folders as well. The right arrow (->) keyboard key will go inside that folder. You can go back one step to the back using the left keyboard arrow (<-)) - Bookmark directly when you find your target - The ability to switch to urls search [NEW] - Launching urls in current or new tab [NEW] - Fuzzy search enabled for filtering on both folders and urls [NEW] - Clean current URL before bookmarking (sometimes the url is polluted with query strings e.g ?source= ... for various tracking information). To clean the url from those, hit ctrl+alt+x and this will solve this issue.