Firefox Addon

[mistermojo]

Hi, I recently joined pinboard because of delicious closing, and while
it's really great and I like the bookmarklet, I kind of miss the
delicious addon

The benefits of the addon were:

1. a sidebar of all my bookmarks and tags
2. being able to search and open sites/tags with the awesomebar
3. having a shortcut for saving a page


I'm just wondering if there are any official or unofficial plans to
develop addons


I did find one addon for pinboard, but it was for saving a link from
the context menu

[Maurice]

I have to agree with this post. I also recently signed up for Pinboard
after hearing about the imminent demise of delicious.

I'd like to see Sedona in the future.

[rossgrady]

Additional feature of the delicious Firefox addon that I'm personally
missing: The ability to right-click on a given tag and get a context
menu with "open in tabs" as an option.

I have a few tags that I use to organize sites that I visit on a
regular basis. Here's my particular user story:

As a content aggregator, I have a set of sites that I visit on a
regular schedule, roughly once a week. I would like to be able to
bookmark them all with a given tag, and then open all those sites in
tabs in my browser via some one- or two-click method, i.e. a context
menu option on the tag to "open in tabs"

I actually spent a few minutes this morning investigating the
possibility of hacking the existing delicious add-on (shhhh! don't
tell Yahoo!) but it relies on OAuth and the v2 API & thus it was
turning into a re-architecting job rather than a simple sed s/
api.delicious.com/api.pinboard.in/ task.

I haven't gone & actively deleted my bookmarks from delicious, so for
now I'm still using it for this particular task, but presumably at
some point that won't work any more.

Cheers,

Ross Grady

[neovatar]

I also recently switched from delicious to pinboard. I've written a
small firefox add-on which offers the functionality of the delicious
add-on I actually used most of the time: Having a toolbar button for
bookmarking and one for jumping to pinboard. It also adds a
quicksearch, so you can type 'pin bash' in the location bar and get
the piboard.in result page with matching bookmarks. I recently added
the feature to add bookmarks via context menu, mainly to see how this
is done in a firefox add-on ;-)

As I said, its small&simple but maybe its a start for you ;-)

You can download it from: http://simplepinboardbutton.neovatar.org/

Peace,
Tom

[Zak B]

Until a Firefox addon turns up that is similar to the delicious one, you can replicate the behaviour you describe using a Firefox Live bookmark. This makes the bookmarks appear in a folder in your Firefox Bookmarks menu or the Bookmarks toolbar.

Navigate to a tag in your pinboard, in the address bar at the top there should be an orange RSS icon. Click it, Firefox usually then takes you to a "subscribe to this feed using..." page. Set the dropdown list option at the top to "Live Bookmarks", then click Subscribe now. You will be shown a dialog that lets you change the name of the folder and the parent - I usually put them on the Bookmarks Toolbar.

The folder will be updated every so often - I think by default Firefox polls the RSS feed from pinboard every 60 minutes or so. You can right-click the folder and open all in tabs.

Cheers,

Zak