Re: getting Firefox tabs into org on a mac

From: Andreas Burtzlaff <andy13@gmx.net>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: getting Firefox tabs into org on a mac
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:12:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091020101242.dbd48ea8.andy13@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20524da70910192040r2858d89ew90d8d955ec5caf7f@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:40:54 -0700
Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a huge number of Firefox tabs that I want to get into
> org.  Figuring out how has gotten complicated, despite good
> documentation out there.
> 
> I want simply title and url for each tab.
> 
> Maybe like this:
> 
>   * Firefox tabs
>     * Public Git Hosting - Worg.git/summary
>   http://repo.or.cz/w/Worg.git
>     * Google Search
>   http://www.google.com
> 
> Would be nice to get fancier by allowing annotations (for
> use by fireforg?).  And allowing syncing back and forth.
> But first, I just want to get started.
>
> I envision two ways of doing this.  Maybe there are more.
> 
>   1) Have emacs or a script convert one of the folders in
>      the bookmark file to an org outline as above.
>   2) Have org-mac-protocol set up for individual tabs to be
>      clicked to get them remembered.
> 
> If I do (2), then I'd want it to be easy.  That is, without
> having to switch from mouse to keyboard.  But does (2) work
> on a Mac?  Last I heard, org-mac-protocol works for Safari,
> but not Firefox.

Fireforg has a workaround for Macs:
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-devel.php#sec-1.2.6

So you could select the tabs one after another and trigger remember
from the Fireforg status bar menu. (This menu is accessible by right
clicking on the status bar entry.)

I will add an entry to the tab context menu tonight to do this in one
step.

Concerning syncing I'm not sure I get your plan entirely. Is the main
purpose of it to synchronize the tabs between different browsers?

Andreas

> Ideas very welcome.  I am stuck here.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> P.S.  I /also/ have a huge number of Safari tabs and a huge
> number of emacs-w3m tabs.  I've found those also difficult
> to orgify.  So ideas here are also welcome.  But Firefox is
> more important now.
> 
> 
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