On 12/29/2017 08:25 AM, Jim Dell wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
On 12/29/2017 04:53 AM, null wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm using
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/51.0 SeaMonkey/2.48
Build identifier: 20170706221455
on a Debian 9 system.
Over the years my bookmarks have grown topsy turvy. I currently have
over 400 folders nested at least 3 deep (no idea how many bookmarks).
I find the "Manage Bookmarks" option too cumbersome.
I experimented with an "export as HTML, edit HTML, import HTML"
sequence. It is doable but sub-par.
Is there a newbie friendly tool to do a "backup as JSON, edit the
JSON, restore from edited JSON file" sequence.
I've not done any significant coding since using dBaseII and 8080
assembler in the 70's.
TIA
As a power user of bookmarks since the old Netscape days, I was
intrigued to see a posting about them as we don't seem to see much
discussion about bookmarks.
We have similar history. I suspect that the reason for little
discussion of bookmarks is that such a good job originally. My
standard for a good UI is still Netscape.
However, from what you say, it's not entirely clear what the problem
is. For instance, you say you find "Manage Bookmarks" too cumbersome,
but what other way could there possibly be to organize your bookmarks?
Folders containing both other folders and quanta of information is
fine {e.g. FHS}.
I probably have more bookmarks and folders than you, and every so
often I open Manage Bookmarks and set about filing new bookmarks
withing my system of folders, creating new folders as necessary,
deleting bookmarks that I decide I no longer need, and so on.
You are organized. I'm currently *NOT* :<
A large portion of my folders have WHEN bookmarked rather than SUBJECT.
True,
you can export the bookmark file as HTML, but trying to edit that
would be vastly more difficult than the previous alternative, and
trying to edit the JSON file would, I think, be impossible.
I've a vague idea of how it could be done, but don't have enough
programing background to express it.
Perhaps you could post more details of what exactly your problem is in
organizing your bookmarks.
If someone could remind me of the command and syntax for displaying a
file directory structure/contents as ASCII line art I could display
display the organization of my home directory. I could then mangle the
display an analog of the disorganization of my bookmarks.
Thanks for reading.
Try this
1) Manage Bookmarks
2) Create a folder by the Subject name you want to put bookmarks in
So far so good ;/
3) Now drag & drop all the bookmark that apply to that subject
But there are the GOTCHA's that prompted this thread.
"Manage Bookmarks" does not have appropriate search capabilities.
1. I need to be able to search ONLY folder titles for key(s)
I then need to be able to yank that folder and its contents
be they be folders OR URL's and place them in the desired
folder.
2. I need to be able to search ONLY the assigned item name (usually
the titled given by the page's author).
I then need to know where in the folder hierarchy it is.
Should it be remain in current folder, should it be moved or
copied to the new folder you mentioned by you, or should it be
deleted as a duplicate &/or obsolete item.
3. I need to be able to search ONLY the URL to see if it is in the
right folder or perhaps be duplicated in another folder.
4) Repeat for each subject
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