Hi Community!
I have idea … about this idea: Bookmarks intelligence in Firefox
Feature name
Option to export bookmarks as csv, bibtext, markdown(table), sql or json in Firefox
Feature description
- It would be nice if Firefox had other formats to export bookmarks such as json, markdown(table) or even csv or sql format. I believe the feature: Export bookmarks might be an extra feature of Firefox, but it might be tied to this idea of bookmark intelligence. So, part of the functionality that was commented on could be related to the export feature as well. Just the Html format, is not a suitable format. There are interesting and alternative options for Html like Json, markdown(table), csv and the sql format.
- Formats like json, markdown(table), csv or sql are very interesting formats and even simpler than Html. The Brave browser for example uses the json file format for bookmarks. Firefox could, like Brave, use the json file format to replace HTML for exporting bookmarks. Or maybe it has different export formats like csv, sql, markdown table. An interesting thing that I forgot to mention is that there is the bibtex file format, it is quite simple. Perhaps having a bibtext based format is the best way.
- Bibtex is a bit similar to json, the difference is that it is usually used to have a base of bibliographic references. Bookmarks - I think it’s a web reference base, it would be better to have a bibtext based format. Many sites that we need to consult daily, it is difficult to remember them all. Checking the history or bookmarks is an interesting way to remember which site we want to access.
- A current problem I see with the html export format is that the tags repeat themselves a lot, when you want to save something you usually want something more consistent. The bibtex format can help in this regard, it is much more consistent than html and json. Also, much of bibtext is similar to what sql and markdown(table) or csv would be.
- Usually bibtex is encoded in utf-8, iso allows characters from all languages. The coolest thing about bibtext is that similar to json, for example you have to have opening braces and closing braces. Bibtex I said is similar to markdown(table), so bibtex is consistent and memorable. The idea of markdown format is something simple to be written, formatted. Bibtext has the same concept as markdown for the simplicity of its formatting. Bibtex is also similar to csv and sql in the sense that it is a database. It’s a very light, small and highly standardized format. So, there are several free, paid, open source programs that can read and open .bibtext files.
- I talked about some formats like json, markdown(table), sql, csv that can replace the html of the export. There is a bibtex format that can replace html and that it knows to be better than the other file formats I mention as sql, csv, markdown(table) or json. Using bibtex, csv, sql, markdown(table) or json format are smarter alternatives and that have more results than html. So, as this thread says “Bookmarks Intelligence” I thought the feature of exporting bookmarks to other formats like csv, json, sql, markdown(table) or even bibtext - can make Firefox experience and usage better.
