EDIT 2023-09-05

I'm archiving this projects as it's probably too old to be updated or useful to anyone.

Apologies for the long queue of unanswered issue.

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I personally changed my approach towards bookmarks and since a few years now I'm using this workflow:

• I send myself an email with the URL and, eventually, additional notes
• the "envelop icon" present in Firefox next to the URL bar is very comfortable for sending
• when I need to bookmark a group of tabs, I use the Save Tabs FF extension to quickly create the email content. I send the email with my email client.
• when I need to search for a bookmark I use my email client search functionality

The main advantages of this approach:

• super simple
• hard to break, always works
• works on any device
• easily accessible, even from phone
• easy to add any kind of note regarding the bookmark
• easy to share (email forwarding)
• easy to search

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Browser extension for Nextcloud Bookmarks

This is a cross-browser extension for Nextcloud Bookmarks, a very popular bookmark application for Nextcloud.

It allows you to add, search and delete your Nextcloud Bookmarks.

This extension does not synchronize your browser bookmarks with Nextcloud Bookmarks and it will never perform any kind of synchronization between the browser and Nextcloud.

It has been tested on Firefox and Chrome but it should work also on Opera, Safari and Microsoft Edge.

Note: this extension doesn't work on OwnCloud but you can fork this repo and modify the code accordingly

Available features

• it adds new bookmarks
• it lists latest bookmarks
• it searches for text among the bookmarks' title and description
• it searches bookmarks by tag or by a tags combination (like 'tag1 AND tag2 AND tag3' and 'tag1 OR tag2 OR tag3')
• it deletes a bookmark
• you can choose if you want to display first the bookmark form or the search form

Missing features

• it can not search for a bookmark starting from a URL (API lacks the method)
• it can not retrieve the list of already set tags (API lacks the method)
• it does not edit a bookmark
• it lacks a translation (localization) system
• it lacks translations

Disclaimer

This extension is ready for production but, of course, it can have bugs.

Screenshots

Firefox screenshots

Chrome screenshots

Update 2018-02-28. Please don't use this extension for now. I didn't have the time to update it yet.

Help needed

I'd love to have any kind of feedback on this extension.

If you are a developer have a look at the code and please open issues or send greatly appreciated PRs.

If you are not a developer please open issues and tell me what's not working for you.

Thank you!

Installation

Server side

Update 2018-02-28: no changes are required on server side at the moment. Be sure you are running Nextcloud 12.04 or 12.05 and everything should work fine

Client side (browser)

Firefox You can install the Firefox AddOn from the Mozilla Webstore

Chrome Update @2017-01-16: You can install the Chrome Extension from the webstore Update 2018-02-28. Please don't use this extension for now. I didn't have the time to update it yet.

Don't forget to configure the addon settings:

• URL of your Nextcloud server
• Nextcloud username
• Nextcloud password

If you want to modify or debug this extension:

Clone this extension repository in your pc:

git clone git@github.com:damko/freedommarks-browser-webextension.git

Open Firefox and paste this about:debugging in the URL bar

Click on the Load Temporary Add-on button and select the freedommarks-browser-webextension/src/manifest.json file

Click Open

Paste this about:addons in the URL bar and you will see the FreedomMarks extension listed among the others

Click on the button Preferences on the right of FreedomMarks and fill in the form with:

• URL of your Nextcloud server
• Nextcloud username
• Nextcloud password