Looking for a link archiving tool to save links that i have no intention of viewing anytime soon. it needs to be able to sort bookmarks by folders and sub-folders, tags are just not my thing. It doesn’t have to be anything crazy but it needs to be offline first and have the ability to export bookmarks in a readable format
Part of it is that i have limited storage in terms of what i can archive, so the next best thing is save the links to YT and websites. If they are gone in the future, it is what it is. I also want my browser bookmark manager to be clutter free without the pressure of removing bookmarks all the time.
Also, i don’t want to use any note talking apps, there are too many links and it just defeat the point of the app.
If you ain’t scared of the terminal and a little coding, you can use the format FireFox exports to. It’s a single html file with everything stored in one big <DL> with folders stored as headers and a sublist. All the urls and metadata are stored in the tags.
It should be relatively easy to make shell script that takes some arguments—e.g. action (add or remove), type (folder or link), url, and title—and modifies the file appropriately, programmatically taking metadata like creation/modify time (firefox stores them in unix time) from the system and favico from the website. That way it will work with any firefox anywhere.
If you want something more full featured,
bukulooks promising, although I haven’t tried it. For a guikeditbookmarks—which is a standalone, despite being part of KDE—looks like a simple interface that can import/export in firefox, opera, netscape, or Internet Explorer formats, as well as export to a “printable html file” (which I assume meets your definition of “readable”) and should open links in the system’s default browser.