I don't know. I have a lot of bookmarks and there is no (proper) tooling for it. I use Google Bookmarks a lot but there is no nice add-on for both Chrome and Firefox. I use Firefox mostly as browser and I also use the bookmarks in the browser a lot. But then you suddenly think: I know I found something that I bookmarked. But where did I bookmark it in?
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Quick search
Searches in title, description, label and url.
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Advanced search
Specify a single label, part of description, part of title, part of url.
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Bookmarklet
I copied the one from Google that works with MyStart.
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Statistics
Added some statistics on source, visits and creation date. There is also a "Last visited" and "Last created" page.
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Import
MyStart can import from multiple sources.
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Deduplication help
When adding a new URL or editing an exiting one the page will show you a list of similar bookmarks that you can delete or edit.
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User accounts
Regular stuff: create account, change password, forgot password, set a nice picture.
This application can import from the following sources:
- FireFox (upload your places.sqlite from your profile directory)
- GitHub (enter a link: https://api.github.com/users/ivolimmen/starred) (can only import 60 pages per hours due to rate-limiting)
- GitLab (enter a link: https://gitlab.com/api/v4/users/ivolimmen/starred_projects?per_page=50) (Only from Gitlab itself)
- Google Bookmarks XML (export the XML: https://www.google.com/bookmarks/?output=xml and upload it)
- Google Bookmarks RSS (export the RSS: https://www.google.com/bookmarks/?output=rss&num=500&start=0 and upload it)
- Google Chrome/Chromium (upload your Bookmarks file from your profile directory)
- Netscape (It is an XML file if your still got one)
- XBEL (It's a XML standard for bookmarks)
Do a checkout of this project. You need to following to build:
- Minimal JDK 21 and up
- Maven 3.* and up
- Podman (for the database)
Then execute the following command:
mvn clean install
For the database I use PostgreSQL 17.2 and these scripts require the use of Podman (the docker alternative)
$ ./createdb.sh
$ ./startdb.sh
$ ./stopdb.sh
In the directory config
there are two configuration files, one for the application and one for the logging.
create copies of the files:
$ cp config/application-local.properties.example config/application-local.properties
$ cp config/logback-local.xml.example config/logback-local.xml
And customize accordingly. When you deploy it you should also have a production
version.
$ mvn -pl server exec:java
- Go into the
/opt
directory. - Extract the generated server-[VERSION].tar.gz. This will create a directory called mystart.
- Copy the
mystart.service
into/etc/systemd/system
- Reload the service deamon:
systemctl daemon-reload
- Start the service:
systemctl start mystart
- For emoji handling: https://github.com/kcthota/emoji4j
- For icons: https://zavoloklom.github.io/material-design-iconic-font/
- For look and feel: https://github.com/ColorlibHQ/AdminLTE