Great user focused (client side, hold our own data) idea for bookmarks. I've tried a bunch ie raindrop, stache, pinboard etc. Would love to have a js bookmarklet for easier adding and if you are thinking about it, option to save the bookmarked page content. Thanks.
@stevenvandervalk A bookmarklet is planned. Saving page content is unlikely, it's a very different and data-heavy problem.
Also, is there any way to run bort locally and not rely on bort.io ?
Would like to run it locally, is it open source?
@sammcj No it's not possible to run locally. It wouldn't work with file:// URLs, you'd need a localhost server. Not open source either, if it were, there'd also be the trouble of getting your own Dropbox API keys. I think it's just too much trouble to run yourself and makes much more sense as a web application. The hosting should be good though (Amazon S3 + CloudFlare) and downtime hopefully rare.
Ignore that question
@otsaloma can you at least open source it?
Or at least the client side js?
@danfarrow The user interface is not really designed for a huge amount of bookmarks or tags. https://bort.io/about.html#faq-amount
@Immortalin I have no plans to open source Bort at this time. I don't see it being that useful for what is inherently a cloud service (even if the code runs client-side). Regarding freedom, I find it more important to ensure it for data, i.e. that you always know what data is stored and where and can export or destroy it at any time.
Extensions for Chrome and Firefox added. Source code at GitHub. https://bort.io/tools.html https://github.com/otsaloma/bort-extensions
Support for high resolution website icons added. This is using a custom Node.js icon server hosted on Heroku, code available at GitHub: https://github.com/otsaloma/webcon
@blanfordrobinson I did a bunch of other changes along with high resolution icons as I needed a lot of time for testing, which I apparently didn't do enough of. You might get stuck with the welcome page if Bort fails to open or initialize the local database. Which browser are you using (see e.g. http://www.whatsmybrowser.org/)? Could you open a JavaScript console, load the page https://bort.io/?debug=1 and copy any possible error messages from the console?
In case there's a real problem with the latest changes and it takes a while to fix it, I put a version from January 24th at https://bort.io/old/. It's not permanent, but something you can use for a couple days or weeks and at least export your bookmarks to be safe.
thanks!
@blanfordrobinson Thanks. That screenshot explained it to me and I could reproduce the error. There was a silly bug in the new icon code that assumed HTTP/HTTPS URLs, so if you had e.g. an FTP bookmark, it would fail very spectacularly. I have now fixed the bug and also made the error handling more graceful. So, https://bort.io/ should work again; you might need to hit Ctrl+Shift+R or Ctrl+F5 to force Chrome to bypass its cache and load the latest page from the server.
New icon server at GitHub: https://github.com/otsaloma/bort-proxy
hello, this is my first time to use gitter so apologies if im showing up strangely. i just wanted to say thanks for bort! this is something i have wanted for years and wondered why so few people cared about it!
i am having a great time cleaning up YEARS of bookmarks in record time, and i dont have to entrust a browser with my hierarchy!
so my main recommendation or question is to include some kind of "tagged" "untagged" rule, so that i am able to determine which bookmarks do not have a tag at all. i think you get around this by forcing at least one tag?
but i would also like an autogenerated "ALL" button sort of like "All Mail" in gmail, and an accompanying count of the "ALL" total.
this way I know how many of the bookmarks are essentially unsorted, and need to be either classified or deleted
An "all" buttons could be added, I guess, I'l keep it in mind. It would probably require preferences dialog entries to enable/disable these built-in buttons to avoid too much clutter.
im far less concerned with the "ALL" tag. i suppose i was pretty good about tagging everything so i didnt have any untagged. i just tested and that works perfectly for me!
