Re: Re: Again on bookmarks

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Thierry,
>
> On 2009-11-26, Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> wrote:
>> See BookmarkExtension:
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/BookmarkExtension
>>
>> It support now nearly all:
>> emacs-w3m bookmarks, Firefox bookmarks, Delicious bookmarks, Gnus
>> bookmarks, Man pages etc...
>
> The reason I like the idea of using org as the central store is that
> it holds a lot of information, including annotations (headline body
> text), subheadings, tags, properties, etc.  Possibly even
> last-modified date of the web page and last-synced.  It can also be
> subsetted using the agenda.

The both are complementary i think.
For Gnus, i use bookmark to quickly save a mail with (C-x r m), but i
also use Org with remember when i want to store more info (TODOS, notes
etc...)

> The idea would be that when you, say, save all Firefox tabs that are
> currently open to a Firefox bookmark folder, you can export that whole
> folder to org.  Then, you can add annotations, move the headlines
> anywhere in the agenda files hierarchy, export from org to w3m or
> Firefox or Safari (using the agenda to subset), and reimport back to
> org without losing the annotations (new browser tabs (web pages) that
> org does not know about yet end up in a special place in the org
> hierarchy while existing ones sync with existing headlines).

You can actually store all Firefox bookmarks to a org file.
Not a specific Firefox bookmark folder (that can be done though).

> Can the emacs bookmark mechanism serialize all that org data?  If not,
> perhaps org would be a good place to store everything.

For the moment, from firefox, i record only the title and url of
bookmarks.
however,i can record more infos if needed:
All infos that are provided by the firefox bookmarks.

> Maybe we have different ideas, which deserve different implementations?
>
>
> Samuel

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