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bookmark manager like jabref for linux?
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I see Jabref has a Linux application and there are browser extensions that work with it. Did you try that?
I tried that extension but it is greyed out on my installation. Besides, it acoompanies pdf files, not the url site directly if I understand it correctly
hmmm.. I see. Good luck finding what you need. I have no ideas.
I use jabref and this extension quite heavily. I can assure you that it does send the URL to jabref; it gets added as a Misc reference with the site URL in the optional fields. On my firefox / windows system it does show greyed out in the plugins menu like you say, however it adds a jabref logo in the address bar which can be clicked (or alt+shift+j) to send to jabref.
I just tried it on my linux system though, and it doesn't work for me, either. Suspect some sandboxing weirdness because I have jabref as a flatpak but firefox running natively. I'm just coming back to linux from a few years hiatus so I'm hoping someone better than me at this can check in.
Jabref does have some troubleshooting steps for their extension that might be worth trying though, depending on your install.
Thank you! I'll check it out later again. I'll try using distrobox or nix
edit: I installed firefox and jabref with nix and it works out of the box. I didn't have to adjust anything, yet the extensions loads very long sometimes. Sometimes it can't find anything.
I'm not familiar with jabref, so I probably shouldn't stick my oar in here. But I will anyway. I've written my own python script that I use for lists like Web bookmarks. It's a poor man's database manager, so you can add attributes to bookmark entries and sort and search on those attributes.
I will check it out and report back, thx!
Tbo, I wonder why I don't simply use a csv or wysiwyg markdown table. In the end jabref provides a table view of a list which could be converted. I either use this or yours, so thank you very much in advance!