Re: Yet another browser extension for capturing notes - LinkRemark

[Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 26/12/2020, Samuel Wales wrote:

> [... i can imagine great things possible with such extensions. for
> example, you could have sets of tabs, selected by right click in
> firefox, to save to a bunch of org entries.  then you could load that
> particular set of entries into firefox whenever you want.  and you
> could keep notes on each page and move the entries wherever you want.
> this would be useful for such things as "i am researching rice
> cookers; these are my tabs, but i don't want them cluttering firefox
> and i want them with my org notes and to make notes on them and will
> re-load them into firefox when i want to revisit".]

It should be possible since some tab management extension were used in 
mozilla to evaluate if webextensions are mature enough and if support of 
XUL add-ons could be dropped. On the other hand do not expect such 
feature soon. A kind of semi-blocker is absence of automatic tests to 
run before every release, and it will require a lot of time.

In the meanwhile, have you looked at the following comment?
https://github.com/sprig/org-capture-extension/issues/12#issuecomment-323569334
alphapapa commented Aug 20, 2017

> You can do this with the "Copy all URLs" extension (ID:
> djdmadneanknadilpjiknlnanaolmbfk). Use this as the custom format (note
> the linebreak):
> 
> [[$url][$title]]

I am almost sure that similar extension should exist for Firefox as well.

Some points should be clarified in my opinion

- Do you expect that metadata should be captured in addition to URLs and 
titles? Browsers can unload some tabs making page content unavailable.
- Are you going to capture reviews of "rice cookers" that could be 
considered as ordinary pages or you are going to save items from online 
stores? I do not current state of affairs but I have heard about some 
activity for special metadata that allows search engines to display 
products in a special way. Could you inspect head element of pages in 
your favorite stores contains desired metadata using page source or 
inspect element tools?
- Should tab group be captured as single Org heading or it should be a 
tree with a section per tab? I am not sure that capture will have no 
problem with subtree. Certainly Emacs interface for org-protocol + 
capture are not suitable for sending each tab as a separate link. 
Another option is to create nested lists, anyway org formatter in my 
extension need improvements. Are you expecting headings subtree or 
nested lists?

> [now if i can only debug the extra-blank-lines-in-capture problem.]

Fully agree that it is really annoying. It is among high priority items 
in my TODO list.

Accidentally I pressed =C-x C-o= and discovered 
[[help:delete-blank-lines]] innerText is not exactly the same as 
selection range toString but the rules could work in a similar way. 
Table rows, floating and absolutely positioned elements require 
newlines. Such elements are often abused by designers.
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#dom-innertext