boosta

Easy bookmark management with rofi

Features

• Browser independent
• Store your bookmarks in a simple textfile, which can be easily tracked with git
• Use rofi as a convenient interface to search, open and manage bookmarks
• Convert your bookmarks.html file exported from Firefox to a boosta bookmarks file

Requirements

boosta has the following requirements:

• Python 2 or 3 (for the convertFirefox2Boosta script)
• rofi

Usage

To convert your bookmarks.html file exported from Firefox to a boosta bookmarks file, run:

convertFirefox2Boosta

The boosta bookmarks file will be created as bookmarks. Copy it to $HOME/.config/boosta/bookmarks to use it with boosta.

Copy the config.sample file to $HOME/.config/boosta/config and customize it as you like.

Run boosta, then you can switch between the following modes:

• Alt+o open bookmark (default mode)
  • start to type a tag, a title or an url and press Enter when you found the bookmark to open.
• Alt+n add bookmark
  • You need to provide tag(s), title and url for a new bookmark.
  • For each of tags, title and url, you can also select from the existing ones.
  • The title of the previous window (probably the browser window) is inserted as the default value for the title.
  • You might want to copy the url to the clipboard before running boosta and insert it then with Shift+Insert.
  • Press Ctrl+Enter to use the entered text and not the selected entry as input.
• Alt+d delete bookmark
  • start to type a tag, a title or an url and press Enter when you found the bookmark to delete.
  • Confirm the deletion of the selected bookmark by selecting [Y]es and pressing Enter.

License

This software is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt

TODO

• change delimiter
• edit bookmark
• generate a html file of the bookmarks