Support tags for bookmarks

RasmusWL

The current tree-structure for bookmarks simply doesn't cut it for me. I love the idea of adding tags to bookmarks (from firefox). Take this article http://www.polyglotweekly.com/2015/04/24/thoughts-of-a-rustacean-learning-go.html as an example. It contains thoughts on both rust and go. Usually this would go in either "dev > lang > rust" or "dev > lang > go", either one being bad as it should go in both. However, tagging it with both "go" and "rust" solves this problem. Please add support for tags, don't screw bookmarks up as Chrome is currently doing.

An_dz

Just add tags in the description box and when you search it will show all of them.

ryofurue

I'd like to see a more fundamental enhancement on bookmarks. What I envision is
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Visit a webpage and if you need to save it, just click on the "bookmark" button.
Next time, put some key words into the search box, and the top hits would be from your bookmarked webpages, listed above the usual Google-search results.
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This idea is: If the searching of bookmarks were as powerful as Google, you wouldn't have to assign keywords to your bookmarks (although keywords would increase the precision of the searching). You wouldn't even have to organize your bookmarks.

I think this would be the best approach for many people. I find myself using Google search in place of bookmarks, even when the page I want is somewhere in my bookmarks. The problem is that I have too many bookmarks and I'm too lazy to add keywords to them. I do organize them in a tree structure, but as the OP of this thread describes, a tree-structure isn't good enough to organize bookmarks.

I think that what I want would be achieved if Google stores each user's "bookmarks" and offers an extension (plugin) to Chrome and Vivaldi that sends the webpage information to Google when the user clicks on the "Google Bookmarks" icon on the browser

. . . It's just occurred to me that Google, being Google, must already have this feature . . . Sure enough, "Google Bookmarks" does exist! It offers a bookmarklet that serves as the bookmark button . . . I don't know how good it is, but I'll give it a try.

Cheers,

Ryo

An_dz

Google search is "good" because it can read the pages contents, cross-connect searches of most people and cross-connect info they know about you. If bookmark search would do like what you envision the pages would have to be saved in your computer so that the browser can read them to output a better search.

ryofurue

@An_dz:

Google search is "good" because it can read the pages contents, cross-connect searches of most people and cross-connect info they know about you. If bookmark search would do like what you envision the pages would have to be saved in your computer so that the browser can read them to output a better search.

Or, an index would be generated when the bookmark is created. It would be somewhat like Mac's Spotlight, I guess. Whether the entire contents or only index terms are saved, a downside is that the stored information potentially becomes out of date if the original webpage potentially evolves in time. But, that's a nature of any type of bookmarks . . . .

Regards,

Ryo

An_dz

Vivaldi could also auto-copy the description and keywords meta tags from the page HTML to the bookmark's description. May not be very useful for pages that abuse those meta tags but for most pages worth bookmarking it may work.

Maybe even with a custom keyboard shortcut:
Ctrl+D => New bookmark without description
Ctrl+Shift+D => New bookmark using page description

Zelphir

This is what bugs me too about the bookmarking system in Vivaldi. I simply cannot efficiently find my bookmarks, if I have to enter exactly a substring of the description. Who remembers the exact wording of a description?! If there is one word different, you'll simply not see that bookmark, instead of seeing it, because you typed a word, which is the tag of the bookmark.

afaik it cannot be done in Vivaldi so far. I have to rely on addons like one-tab to compensate for it, putting tags I will soon need again into that, instead of bookmarking and forgetting until needed.

barutkin

Firefox bookmark manager is its killer feature. Missing it on Vivaldi

Ueno

(Sorry to my bad English, I am Chinese from Hong Kong, but I am really need to register a new account and tell below to Vivaldi team.)
I agree add the Tag as well! The only reason i don't turn to vivaldi and still using Firefox. I am delicious bookmark user since 2005 and heavy use on bookmark, i have about 3K+ bookmark and become my own knowledge base & library.

For bookmark system, Chrome is fail, Chrome doesn't have tag also and Google doesn't improve since very first release, as well as the new bookmark extension from Google, horrible speed, and material design. (Google think material design can apply to all UI? definitely he is wrong.)

The only winner is Firefox, Title,description,tag, keyword, last visit, add date etc. Very detail on it. Vivaldi having a unique feature is refresh the thumbnail, which I love it and I sure it is exciting for Delicious,Pocket,Pinboard user as well. Just one things, the Tag. Tag is very different concept to folder.

Let say I have many bookmark about Javascript, but some is about [Framework], [plugin], [Datetime], [Maths], it very inefficient if I classified as Folder and the sub-folder tree will huge. Vivaldi is going on right way now, bring back the feeling of Opera, not just being Chrome Clone. So I hope I can uninstall the Firefox, Chrome and stay with Vivaldi.

Ayespy

@veewii: Bookmarks have miles of improvement ahead of them yet. Tags are one thing that (at least eventually) will be addressed.

Ueno

@Ayespy
It is really good news, I believe many firefox user will turn to vivaldi very soon!
Firefox 57 will drop classic extension model and goes web extension, Many (really! MANY) firefox user is looking for alternate browser, but Doesn't consider Chrome because it doesn't able to customize and the UI is just look old and not much improve from version 1 to version 58.

luism

I've switched from Firefox recently and bookmark with tagging seems yet to be implemented, or is it hidden somewhere?
This would be a very important and necessary feature to implement.

SemperRoto

With mozilla firering a lot of good people I was looking at Vivaldi again but not being able to import and use my tagged bookmarks keeps me (and potentially others) from switching over.

Pesala

@SemperRoto It is a popular request to Add Searchable Tags for Bookmarks, but it is not currently tagged as In Progress or Pipeline, so you are unlikely to see it any time soon.

bjoernaldi

I have created a script to add the tags from my Firefox bookmarks to the description field of the Vivaldi bookmarks.

If there is interest, I could work on making it more usable.

At the moment it has to be used from the command line, and Deno (a JavaScript runtime) has to be installed. It is intended for one time use (import bookmark tags from Firefox once). It is a hack as it modifies the "Bookmarks" file that Vivaldi uses to store bookmarks. I only tested it on my own bookmarks.

The GitHub repository for the script is here:
https://github.com/Bjoern/vivaldiBookmarkTags