Abookmark advanced bookmark manager & tab organizer

https://www.abookmark.org

Abookmark uses the native bookmarks as its database and it has some advanced features as labels, sticky notes, and trash mode...

Abookmark can store and restore tabs as onetab and toby, but it saves tabs as bookmarks.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/abookmark/poeodakgiedndmmkabehagjgpbjkcfgg

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/abookmark/njffnfkceagiolcjfjdnofoobckaeanb

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A bookmark is a sleeping tab and a tab is a living bookmark. The two can be converted into each other. Abookmark is good at managing a large number of tabs and bookmarks, and making them useable.

If abookmark doesn't work for you, there are some related extensions to try out, such as onetab, toby, workona, braintool, tabs outliner, tree style tab (firefox), sidebery (firefox), tab stash (firefox), bookmark sidebar, card bookmarks, finder bookmarks.

abookmark tab inbox is a subset of abookmark. It has the minimal features for tab management.

Features

• Labels/Tags.
• Sticky notes in web pages.
• Trash/Recycle.
• Tab managments. (store & restore tabs/sessions.)
• Sailing. (update saved bookmarks automatically while surfing)
• Advanced bookmark bar (spread view & top bar)
• Data text editor. (edit bookmarks in your favorite text editor)
• Import selected bookmarks from a file.
• Monthly backup.
• Recent bookmarks.
• Link hint. (vi-like keyboard)
• Shortcuts.
• Link picking.
• Link replacing.
• Advanced search.
• Cooperate with native bookmark system.

Privacy

All your bookmarks are stored in your browser system. Abookmark does not transfer any of your data to anywhere else.

Tips

• Unselect all nodes by 'Escape'.
• Select a list of nodes with 'Shift' on checkbox.
• Right click on a checkbox to select it exclusively.
• Select all the nodes in a subfolder by click the left edge of that openned folder.
• Remove marks of trash with 'normalize', or just drag them out of trash folder.
• Click a node's icon to edit it.
• Move bookmarks with [merge].
• Drop nodes into nav buttons ([home], [trash], [top]...).
• If you want to show the title of a bookmark in top bar you can put a letter '!' in front of its title.
• Drop a bookmark node on the blank area in nav page to reveal it or to attach to topbar if it is a folder.

Shortcuts

• Search: Ctrl +f
• Undo: Ctrl + z
• Clear selection: Escape
• Remove a node: Delete
• Remove a tag: Shift + click
• Save in bookmark editor: Ctrl + enter
• Spread view (for any tag/folder): Alt + click
• Link hint: f
• keyboard manual: ? (disabled by default)
• Alt + store buttons = add bookmarks (without close tabs)
• Shift + store buttons = store without creating new folders.
• Alt + open button = close other tabs & open
• Alt + restore button = close other tabs & restore
• Alt + update button (~) = update & close saved tabs.

Concepts

node

A node is a bookmark or a folder.

home folder node

The Home folder is the default starting folder of Abookmark.

Abookmark uses the 'Other bookmarks/favorites' as home folder by default.

inbox folder node

Newly created bookmarks will be put into inbox folder. If there is no inbox folder appoited, home folder will be used as inbox.

top folder

Top folder is a folder for shortcuts. You can put anything you like into it.

Abookmark uses the 'Bookmarks/Favorites bar' as top folder by default.

date stamp

Abookmark prefers to store the date in the title explicitly. Generally it is a four-character string. eg: [231a]. The first two characters represent the year: 23 -> 2023. The third character represent the month: 1 -> January. The last character is the date: a -> 10, b -> 11, u->30.

onetab

A 'tab' in onetab is nothing but a bookmark node in Abookmark.

Save [one tab] / [all the tabs] / [tabs on the right] to inbox folder and close these tabs.

In app page, you can reopen these tabs/bookmarks by click the titles. But if you click the urls on the right side, the node will be removed at the same time. This is what we called 'restore'.

Abookmark is built with performance in mind. You can save thousands of tabs easily. Your data's safety is guaranteed by your native bookmark system.

labels/tags

User tags should start with '#' and contain no other symbols, but may have '-' or '_'.

All other symbols are reserved by Abookmark.

'@' tags are for all kinds of links. Generally they are created automatically by Abookmark.

'#!' tags are for macros.

'$' tags are reserved for system usage.

<!-- ### id tag: format: '@' + 'folder id' + ':' + 'anything' eg: @100:books The 'id' may be omitted. Then id tag becomes: '@:' + 'node_name' eg: @:books The 'node_name' can be any part of that node's title. When you click a id tag, AsNote will search out all titles matched the 'node_name'. -->

Trash

When in 'Trash' mode, all deleted nodes will be marked as trash and moved into trash folder. You can restore them by 'Normalize' function.

You should select a trash folder node to enable trash mode. Any folder may be appoited as trash folder, even outside of working folder.

Recycle

'Recycle' engine may reuse these 'trash' nodes when you create new nodes.

'Recycle' is designd to reuse node ids. Generally this is not necessary if you do not know what it is. So it is disabled by default.

Trash folder reserves at least 50 (100 after v0.6) nodes from recycling by default.

Fold

'Fold' creates a new folder besides the last selected node and moves all selected nodes into that folder.

Suppose you want to move several nodes into a folder.

Merge

'Merge' unfolds all other selected folders(if they are folders) and moves them into(or beside) the last selected node.

'Merge' is designed to merge several folders but it is also useful for bookmarks.

link picking

Suppose you are viewing a page contains many links. You want to bookmark some of the links and read them another day. This pattern is what we called "link picking".

After switched to Picking mode, any links clicked with 'Ctrl' (by default) in that page will be bookmarked and the openning of new tabs will be terminated. You can click any other tab to exit Picking mode.

link sailing

Generally a bookmark is a note of a 'static' url. But sometimes this is not enough. For example, you are surfing from bookmark of site/page1, then you go to site/page2, site/page3... Now you want the bookmark to point to site/page3. Abookmark can do this automatically. This is the 'link sailing'.

When in sailing mode, Abookmark will always update the bookmark to the latest page of that site you are surfing. That page will inherit the former notes and tags.

<!-- When a tab is in link sailing mode, there will be a 'S' shown in the extention icon badge. --> <!-- How to trigger 'link sailing'? --> <!-- - Click a bookmark in Abookmark tagged with #!sailing. - Click a bookmark in Abookmark whose parent folder tagged with #!sailing. - Click a bookmark in Abookmark with alt/shift according to your settings. - Trigger 'toggle sail mode' command in any web page bookmarked. --> <!-- How to exit 'link sailing'? - Go to another site. - Close that tab. --> <!-- - Trigger 'toggle sail mode' command in that web page. -->

After v0.29, link sailing is integrated into folder/window sailing.

folder sailing

Folder sailing is a two way binding between bookmarks of the selected folder and the tab bar.

When it is booted:

• a sailing window is formed, with a pinned abookmark page as its sailing engine.
• bookmarks under the sailing folder are loaded as tabs in the sailing window.
• everything happens in the sailing window may change the sailing folder: add a tab = create a bookmark close a tab = remove the bookmark update a tab = update the bookmark ...
• everything happens in the sailing folder by the sailing engine may affect the sailing window.
• close the tab of sailing engine = stop sailing

You can setup how many tabs be loaded in one time by the "Max tabs per window" option. Then you can use sail.refresh shortcut to load tabs in corresponding range with current tab as the first one.

There are some other shortcuts for sailing.

warning:

• sailing is dangerous. make a backup first, start from a temporary folder to try it.
• it is not warranted to use other tab managers in the sailing window.
• do not modify the sailing folder outside of its sailing engine.

window sailing

Window sailing is similar to folder sailing. The key difference is that window sailing uses the bookmark root node as its root folder, and it keeps the cached tabs in a limited amount. As the contract, folder sailing deletes unmatched tabs at the start, but it keeps all the tabs as cache afterwards.

sailing on nodes

You can select a list of continues nodes as targets to boot the sailing. A temporary window sailing will be booted for them in this case, which will turn to normal window sailing if you click on other bookmarks in the sailing engine.

context menu: update ~

Update (~) button updates a bookmark by current tab. The tags and notes may be preserved.

It can also update a folder with the tabs of current window. The folder will have bookmarks corresponding to the tabs but subfolders will be ignored. It also ignores pinned tabs and groups.

filter

The 'filter' only effects the first level nodes in main panel. It does not change the database, but only rearranges the view dynamicaly.

You can use filter to do something as 'search in current folder'.

You can use 'regular expression' in the filter, just as in the 'search'.

top bar

Top bar is similar to chrome/edge's bookmark bar, but it is more 'spreaded'.

You can load the top bar by its keyboard shortcut. If the top bar 'trigger' is active (in settings), you can load the top bar by click on the top of the left edge in a typical