Add "Folders" to Bookmarks to collect Bookmarks into Categories

[craigarno]

I find the Bookmarks feature really useful since I find myself in many different locations and on different computers. So I collect a large number of bookmarks.

To help me organize my Bookmarks, I'd like to request a new "Folder" feature in Bookmarks so I can group related Bookmarks together. I'm attaching a picture to help explain this concept. This concept is very similar to how Firefox and Chrome organize bookmarks.

I should probably mention I'm using OwnCloud 5.0.5 on OpenSUSE 12.2 x64 LAMP setup, and am brand new to OwnCloud.

Thank you,
Craig

[desyncr]

+1
I'll work on this on the next couple of days.

So far it needs an schema change (add column parent, to have a hierarchy structure) and, on the frontend, may be jsTree (http://www.jstree.com) or similar, on the sidebar (leftcontent).

[craigarno]

Thank you, this will be useful to get around the Bookmark 10 Tag display limit which currently exists. I already have over 20 tags. I hope migration effort for current bookmarks / Tags into the new format will be easy / painless / trivial.

I run MySQL backend (Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.28, for Linux (x86_64) using readline 6.2) with the latest release OwnCloud 5.0.x frontend on OpenSUSE 12.2 / 12.3 x64 accessing from both Linux (3.4.33-2.24-desktop / 3.7.10-1.16-desktop ) and Windows (7 and XP) based Thunderbird / Lightning, Firefox, and Chrome / Chromium.

If I can help, please send a message.

[desyncr]

I just added a very basic support for folders. There are some limitations still, but should be fixed in a few days.

Currently it supports importing from FF and Chrome (haven't tested on others) preserving folders and order.

Limitations:

• It won't export folders (easy)
• It won't import favicons (easy)
• You can't add bookmarks inside folders (medium)
• There is no way to move things around (not so easy to fix).
• Other small things here and there.

If somebody want to test it out and give some feedback that would be greatly welcome. Just clone my fork and checkout the branch hierarchy.

[craigarno]

Ok, really feeling like a newb...

Rather than tamper with my working server, I set one up on my workstation (Neptune). I installed OC 5.0.10, imported my bookmarks from the server and verified everything worked... it did, bookmarks displayed, etc.

Then I executed

neptune:/srv/www/htdocs/owncloud # git clone https://github.com/asphxia/bookmarks.git
Cloning into 'bookmarks'...
remote: Counting objects: 11568, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1728/1728), done.
remote: Total 11568 (delta 5683), reused 11489 (delta 5605)
Receiving objects: 100% (11568/11568), 1.34 MiB | 637 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (5683/5683), done.

And looked again...

The original looked like this...

So, what did I do wrong?
And what do I need to do to correct this?

Craig

[desyncr]

You probably didn't do anything wrong. I'll checkout what could have caused that.

Thanks for the feedback.

[desyncr]

I can't repro the error :/ Did you checkout the branch hierarchy?

git clone https://github.com/asphxia/bookmarks.git && \
cd bookmarks && \
git checkout hierarchy

[craigarno]

Just tried your suggestion. Same result as before.

neptune:/srv/www/htdocs/owncloud # git clone https://github.com/asphxia/bookmarks.git && cd bookmarks && git checkout hierarchy
Cloning into 'bookmarks'...
remote: Counting objects: 11568, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1728/1728), done.
remote: Total 11568 (delta 5683), reused 11489 (delta 5605)
Receiving objects: 100% (11568/11568), 1.34 MiB | 191 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (5683/5683), done.
Branch hierarchy set up to track remote branch hierarchy from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'hierarchy'
neptune:/srv/www/htdocs/owncloud/bookmarks #

I had to perform an rm -r bookmarks for your suggested command to succeed.

[craigarno]

If you'd like, you can go to http://arno.com:81 and login as test/test. Maybe looking at HTML output will provide a clue?

I temporarily forwarded my web server for this URL to tunnel to my development machine.

[desyncr]

Not sure why but the app keeps serving some old files. Some really old templates.

Tomorrow I'll install OC 5.0.10 to check against it (I'm running master).

Regards.

[craigarno]

Ok, let me know when you're able to sort it out. From my end, I can afford to be patient.

I really like the idea that I can "import from FF and Chrome". Can this be made into a bidirectional "sync"?

Wish #1 - How hard would it be to put the Folder / Sub-Folder Tree in the "Related Tags" pane and have URL's displayed in the right pane, similar to the current Tag's setup? Vertical scroll bars available in both panes when content exceeds pane size?

Wish #2 - I like to store related URL information, like a utility account number and password for e-pay for sites which disable "saved" account information in your browser, phone numbers for support. Phone numbers are especially useful for cable companies that like to bury and hide this information on their site so customers will have a hard time finding this information, especially if the site moves this information to a new hiding place regularly, or internet access is down. This is related information (Notes) which I'd like to see if I do something like hover the cursor over the URL in the right pane. This sounds trivial, until you have 20 or more URL's with this kind of related information. Being able to easily copy/paste things like 30-digit account numbers from notes to enter into "required fields" is also useful. When things are going wrong, having this information at your fingertips is invaluable. Notes might look something like this:

Account Number:
00849833001234567890

Comcast Quality Assurance
888-565-4329 [1-1-2]
abuse@comcast.net

http://www.comcast.com
User Name: me@domain.com
Password: Secre.....

Email Us: http://www.comcastsupport.com/com/email.asp
Phone: Call 1-800-COMCAST (1-800-266-2278). 24/7

[desyncr]

I really like the idea that I can "import from FF and Chrome". Can this be made into a bidirectional "sync"?

There is no native way to do that. Unless creating an extension for each browser that communicates with ownClud.

Folder / Sub-Folder Tree in the "Related Tags" pane

That's the next step. The folder tree would be collapsible as well the "related tags" pane, otherwise it won't fit.

I like to store related URL information,

There is the description field. I took the liberty to remove it from the listing because it's not standard (you can't import or export this field, neither tags). I think that may be the bookmarks items can be "expanded" to show the description and such when clicked on a brief of the description.

[desyncr]

If any one is still insteresting here's how it looks so far:

Only tested with SQLite. If anyone can grab it and test against postgres and mysql that would be nice.

[craigarno]

Tried again with both git commands listed above. Getting the same results as last time. I'm updating "ownCloud 5.0.10 (up to date)"

Test account http://arno.com:81 setup last time should still be there if you want to look at output.

Image above looks great!