No longer supported?

[skissh]

Does that mean when it breaks no one will fix it or that the site will no longer work?

Who can I talk to about taking over the maintenance? Can the code be put on github?

Is there an alternative for our bookmarks? Are there any developers out there that think it would be worth taking over?

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Thank You,

Steve Kissh

[ArtI]

I had thousands of bookmarks, organized nicely into labels. Search in bookmarks was starting to fail, with results past the first page not displaying, search on keywords for bookmarks I knew were there not found, and other problems. I exported them, and pulled them into the free version of raindrop.io. They came over nicely, with labels becoming folders. The only thing miss was that I had multiple labels on some bookmarks, and only one was applied, I think the first in each case. That was minor. It was a big relief to get a quick and easy solution to what was a big investment in those bookmarks.

[greg heil]

Art

The lack of multiple labels
is an artifact of the Google export
Each BM is replicated
for every label
i have an average of 3
and so my backup is
roughly 3x as big

i HEAVILY used "Notes"
in Google BookMarks
so as a replacement
Raindrop would need to support that

IF IT DOES(??)
then it would also have
to support a
user based import text tool:

it appears we need to
reformat the backup
so the each BM
is at the head of an entry
including

1) Label(s!)
2) Notes (with URLs, "Rich"?)
3) Name
4) Location URL

Does it have a "Bookmarklet"?

Please LMK if it supports NOTES!
it is unclear from
the public doc's i have read

The Algolia search
they use seems very good!

~greg heil
https//picsrp.github.io

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from; ArtI <a...@info-design.com>
to; google-b...@googlegroups.com
date; Aug 11, 2021, 10:54 AM
subject; Re: No longer supported?

>I had thousands of bookmarks, organized nicely into labels. Search in bookmarks was starting to fail, with results past the first page not displaying, search on keywords for bookmarks I knew were there not found, and other problems. I exported them, and pulled them into the free version of raindrop.io. They came over nicely, with labels becoming folders. The only thing miss was that I had multiple labels on some bookmarks, and only one was applied, I think the first in each case. That was minor. It was a big relief to get a quick and easy solution to what was a big investment in those bookmarks.

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from; skissh <smk...@gmail.com>
to; google-b...@googlegroups.com
date; Aug 10, 2021, 5:05 PM
subject; No longer supported?

>Does that mean when it breaks no one will fix it or that the site will no longer work?
>Who can I talk to about taking over the maintenance? Can the code be put on github?
>Is there an alternative for our bookmarks? Are there any developers out there that think it would be worth taking over?

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Thank You,
Steve Kissh

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[ArtI]

You might just do an export and pull it into Raindrop.io. The free version will likely give you all you need to know. As a side note, creating tags accomplishes the same thing. Would have been okay in Google bookmarks if it were available. You might see what I think is what you’re calling “notes” end up in the description are of the bookmark. 

[greg heil]

Art

According to
https://better.raindrop.io/feature-requests/p/notes#:~:text=write%20multiline%20description
they DO plan to support "descriptions"

(NB they have a
scrolling update thingie
going on with that page so the
text snippet URL fails
goto page
do MANY pagedowns
and the search for "multiline")

So "Notes" "Should" be in Beta version
Trying to mangle a usable input now

The GoogleBM HTML you tried
fails for ALL tags
sifting to CSV
will require making
HTML entities for commas in description

~greg heil
https//picsrp.github.io

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from: ArtI <a...@info-design.com>

to: Google Bookmarks <google-b...@googlegroups.com>
date: Aug 11, 2021, 5:21 PM

subject: Re: No longer supported?

[greg heil]

Maybe
"no longer a supported"
is actually a good thing !-)

gBM STILL exists
though it has the banner

>'warning Google Bookmarks is no longer a supported product. To save your bookmarks, click on "Export bookmarks"'

if they kept it going
in its present Zombie state
users might thrive

Not that there was
any support for decades anyway

i like my solution
of using a special purpose calendar
very much ...
it vastly elevates
the space allotted
to descriptions

Opening up sharing
is a big plus
plus i get all the
Google Search goodies

but it does lack
any facility for
managing Keywords

suggestions?

~greg heil
picsrp.github.io
i.tgu.ca/real_cal

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from: greg heil <emanu...@gmail.com>
date: Oct 1, 2021, 2:19 PM

subject: Re: No longer supported?

Well
Sept 30th
came and went
... but gBM
still "works"
for me anyway

i have used
gCalendar
to the same effect
successfully

reading, editing and writing
events in .ics format
using Google's i/o
and my plain text editor

NB gCalendars CHROME editor
currently has a fault
in being unable to accept
pasted multiple carriage returns
i use another browser
to get the vertical spacing

.ics is peculiar
i used Wikipedia
for guidance

Sifting my Vast collection
of old gBM's
will be a major challenge

export from gBM
is in .html
and each entry
is replicated for each keyword

so they must be
collated
and SIFTed
to the .ics format

Also note that
gCalendar
has no REPLACE functionality
so it is best to maintain
the BM/Calendar
in an account
with no other calendars:

1) G exports ALL calendars

2) during debugging
you will need to replace
the entire calendar
for every REPL loop

3) search on Calendar
defaults to ALL calendars

it is feasible to
maintain a current bookmark calendar
while debugging
ones archive
as a separate calendar

~greg heil
picsrp.github.io
i.tgu.ca/real_cal
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