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Joseph Basquin


01/10/2024

The best browser bookmarking system is already built-in

30 September 2024, by Joseph#browser #bookmark #productivity #chrome
#firefox

Along the years I have tested various browser bookmarking systems.

And for 10 years, I've realised that the best bookmarking system is
already built-in to most browsers (Firefox, Chrome), and that is:

files!

See the video, the drag-and-drop creates a .url shortcut file:

Just that. You drag and drop the URL to the Desktop or any folder.

No browser extension needed.

  * Want to delete/copy/move/rename a bookmark? Just delete/copy/move
    /rename the file.

  * Want to organize your bookmarks? Use directories in your
    filesystem, as usual.

  * Want to join the bookmark to a work-in-progress in its dedicated
    directory? Just copy the file there, you'll have the bookmarks
    grouped with your other files:

    [browserboo]

  * Want to backup all your bookmarks? They are just .url files in
    folders, so you can do a backup with all your other documents.

  * Want to sync them with other devices? Use the same sync system as
    your other documents (Syncthing is great)

  * Want to use your bookmarks in multiple browsers? No problem, you
    just drag and drop the bookmark file into the browser, and it
    opens automatically

  * Want to change your main browser? No need to do anything, you
    just keep the bookmark files (no need to "export" anything, no
    need to install a browser extension to save the bookmarks and/or
    convert them to another format...)

  * Want to search among your thousands of bookmarks? Just use your
    OS's search among all .url files

  * Want to add tags to your bookmarks? Just rename the file Super
    bookmarking system.url into Super bookmarking system #
    productivity.url and later you can search your bookmarks with
    tags, example query in your favorite OS's file search tool:
    "bookmarking #productivity"

  * Want to do some data mining on your thousands of bookmarks? You
    can do it with any programming language, since a .url file is
    just that:

    [InternetShortcut]
    URL=https://www.afewthingz.com/browserbookmark

That's it!

This has worked for decades with Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer,
and probably others, at least on Windows.

Remarks:

  * sadly, it doesn't work out of the box on Ubuntu + Firefox.
    Mozilla, please fix this :)

  * There has been a regression about this in recent versions of
    Firefox on Windows, you now have to modify your default Firefox
    shortcut to firefox.exe -no-deelevate. Please Mozilla, don't let
    this awesome feature die, this should work out of the box. It
    works on Chrome.

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