On Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 9:37:43 AM UTC-5, andyjim wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at 11:35:05 PM UTC-5, Thomas Passin wrote: >> >> >> >> I've been spending some time with my bookmark manager again, >> >> Thomas, is your bookmarks manager available to 'the general public'? I > am terrible with bookmarks. No organization at all, and (after taking up > valuable time counting them) I would blush to report how many I have open > right now. > I would love to say yes. I have no objection, and I'd be happy to have more people using it. But using it takes some setup. You have to get certain batch files pointing to the right directories, etc. How about if I work with you to do that? Limitations are: 1) It works best with Firefox bookmarks. Other browsers can export to the same format, but they are organized a little differently, and I have had to hand-edit the export files for them to work with the bookmarks manager. I could work with you to fix up the bookmarks if you want to move them over to Firefox. 2. While you can add and edit data to the resources (the URLs) - like notes, other URLs, etc, - the process for saving these annotations is very clunky. That's because browsers themselves won't let you save to the file system as a security measure. 3. I *think* that by using Firefox, you can use the manager without running a web server. Most other browsers won't let you do it (they all worked without a server back when I developed it, in the 2003-2004 time frame, but no longer). So if you don't want to use Firefox, we'll have to set you up with a web server on your computer. 4. If you didn't save your bookmarks into a series of folders, then the program won't be of so much help, because it uses the folder names to figure out the links that make the system especially good for serendipity. You would only have a flat list of resources. All you could do would be to search them for a text phrase in the title. OTOH, if you did use folders for saving the bookmarks, you are going to love the thing. And the various displays and computed linking arrangements built in might stimulate some useful thoughts for the kind of user interface features that a zettelkasten might profit from. Once it's set up and running, it's very easy to use, and it performs very quickly. Oh, yes, and it can read files from specified directories in the files system, too, if they contain URL links or files of some types. It will, for example, treat a folder full of Internet Explorer bookmarks just like the bookmarks from your browser. This can be very handy. Sometimes I think that if I could make the process of saving your annotations easy, we'd have maybe 3/4 of what we (or I) want in a zettelkasten. But maybe not. In my thinking, a zettel would be represented by its URL. That's all the bookmark manager needs. So if you want to try it out, check the gmail account that you used for private messages. I finally found the message that you sent me, and responded to it a few days ago. It has a better email address for me. Write me there. Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/861c5157-8de3-463e-9eb5-3ff1f986e65d%40googlegroups.com.
