Importing Browser Tabs as Tiddlers - a primitive bookmarking system

[Steven Schneider]

Most folks have probably  already figured this out, but perhaps there are a few, like me, who pick things up a bit more slowly:

I've just noticed that, in Firefox at least, dragging the page info icon (the "i" to the left of the url in the browser) into a wiki creates an untitled tiddler with the URL as the contents of the text field.

Just curious: has anyone developed any macros or wrappers that work on the import process -- such as including a created field, or perhaps capturing the title of the page as the title of the tiddler? Or even adding a tag to the imported tiddler to note it as a bookmark?

//steve.

[Tristan Kohl]

Hi Steve,

I tried to reproduce your thing but for me a dropped page triggers my browser (FF 52.0.2) to load that page in the tab of my wiki, even though TW shows the green import bar at the top before dropping. Is there any special configuration/setting/addon in your browser preventing the default "go to" behavior?

Cheers,
Tristan

[Mat]

I did not know this, thanks for mentioning it Steve.


A little ramble on using TW for bookmarks:

While collecting bookmarks in TW sounds like a great idea, all versions I've seen(!) so far fall flat. At least compared to the default, i.e compared to bookmarking using the browser. The TW variants all suffer from at least these two problems;

1) Adding bookmark requires physical contact with TW.
It is way too demanding to have to go back and forth between the page and the TW to add a bm. Also the drag'n drop method Steve bring up here requires this. One should not have to switch tabs to add a bookmark.

2) Forced edit of bookmark for it to be useful.
For a bookmark to be useufl, it needs at least the url but also the title or some info. It is not user friendly enough if the user is forced manually change "New Tiddler" into something useful.


Possible step to a real solution?
I would think that grand TWizard BJ's TiddlyClip has the technology to solve the problems as it can remotely add stuff to a TW in another tab. But, if I recall, it can't add stuff to a TW in another window, or if the TW is not open.

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