sxbm

I needed a simple and browser-independent way of managing my bookmarks, leading to the creation of sxbm. It's written in strictly POSIX compliant shell, so it should work fine on all *nix based operating system.

sxbm stores your bookmarks in a plain text file making it easily portable. Bookmarks are categorized via tags as opposed to the inferior folder structure found in browsers.

Installation

Cone the repo.

git clone https://codeberg.org/NRK/sxbm.git

Then just copy/move the script into your $PATH. Instead of copying, you can also create a symlink. This way you can do a git pull to get updates.

Usage

• Adding a bookmark (title and tag are optional.)

sxbm add link.com title +tag

• Opening a bookmark. You need to specify a title, tag or line_number. If there are multiple results use sxbm open -f to open them all.

sxbm open <title|+tag|line_number>

• List all bookmarks.

sxbm ls

• Edit bookmarks.

sxbm edit

• Remove a bookmark.

sxbm rm <line_number>

Run sxbm --help to see more detailed usage.

Searching

• Searching by tag

sxbm ls +tag

• Searching by title

sxbm ls title

By default tag searches are non-strict while title searches are strict.

In other words, sxbm ls +one +two will match bookmarks that have EITHER +one OR +two. If you wish to search for a bookmark that contains ALL the specified tags then you can pass the -s or --strict option. e.g sxbm ls -s +one +two +three will only match bookmarks that have all three of the tags.

As for titles, sxbm ls aplha beta will match bookmarks that contains BOTH alpha and beta. You can pass the -S option to search for entries that contain either one of the queries.

One more thing to keep in mind is that title search also matches links. The rational is that you may want to search sxbm ls "gentoo.org" to find bookmarks with the specified url.

Using it with Dmenu/Rofi

There's an example wrapper script provided which allows you to open, copy and add bookmarks via dmenu/rofi.

Todo

• Enhance remove arguments. Should take same arguments as open.
• Enhance edit arguments. Should take similar arguments as open.
• Allow reading the bookmark file via stdin and writing it out via stdout. This would allow someone to easily encrypt their bookmarks if they wish.