Re: [PLUG] bookmarks

[Rich Kulawiec via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 12:00:41PM -0400, jeff via plug wrote:
> How do any of you deal with multiple local browsers and keeping the
> bookmarks in sync or in a central repository? Manually is killing me and
> online isn't an option. Don't need to sync across systems - just locally.

I periodically export all bookmarks to a file, then use a shell script
to postprocess that file so that all links are of the form:

	<li> <a href="http://example.com";>Description</a>

That is, I strip off all the superfluous metadata that I don't care about.
Sometimes I manually add keywords:

	<li> security, iot <a href="http://example.com";>Description</a>

Then I add each entry -- or more likely, group of entries -- to a set
of files that have appropriate names like "climate.html" or "security.html".
Revision history on those files is kept via RCS, because it's (still)
perfectly fine for a use case like this.  The set of files are periodically
rsync'd to the relevant systems.

It works for tens of thousands of bookmarks.  I search them with grep
when necessary -- that's why I tag some things -- and that usually
suffices although once in a while I have the can't-find-the-thing-I-have
problem.

---rsk
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