Import Firefox bookmarks file as Zotero collection
I maintain several thousand Internet bookmarks. Since migrating to Linux from Windows, I have been unable to find a competent bookmarks manager and even on Windows I never found one that was adequate for my needs. (I used Compass on Windows.) Zotero comes far closer to what I need than any other tool I have found on either platform.
I would love to be able to import my bookmarks into Zotero as a Zotero collection. That would allow me to add keywords, tags, gain the benefits of search, clean up citations, and recycle my annotations. But as nearly as I can tell, I can only recreate the bookmark entries in Zotero, not import them en masse.
While I realize that Zotero is designed as an academic research assistant, I think it would also find far wider usage if bookmark files could be imported as Zotero collections, with folder structures intact. The closest free Firefox add-on seems to be Scrapbook, <https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/427/>. But Zotero has distinct advantages, e.g., metadata tagging and citation grabbing from online databases, assembly of annotated bibliographies, etc., not to mention a more intuitive interface.
I hope that bookmarks file import will be a feature soon.
Zotero is a very nice implementation of an excellent concept. My compliments and thanks go to the developers and to those who have supported their work.
I would love to be able to import my bookmarks into Zotero as a Zotero collection. That would allow me to add keywords, tags, gain the benefits of search, clean up citations, and recycle my annotations. But as nearly as I can tell, I can only recreate the bookmark entries in Zotero, not import them en masse.
While I realize that Zotero is designed as an academic research assistant, I think it would also find far wider usage if bookmark files could be imported as Zotero collections, with folder structures intact. The closest free Firefox add-on seems to be Scrapbook, <https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/427/>. But Zotero has distinct advantages, e.g., metadata tagging and citation grabbing from online databases, assembly of annotated bibliographies, etc., not to mention a more intuitive interface.
I hope that bookmarks file import will be a feature soon.
Zotero is a very nice implementation of an excellent concept. My compliments and thanks go to the developers and to those who have supported their work.
We hope to offer Zotero users the ability to import their Firefox bookmarks in the very near future. Thanks for the suggestion.
- import of firefox bookmarks would be a real 'icing on the cake' item that would probably be useful to quite a few users who would use it primarily as a bookmarks manager with a tagging feature
Best wishes with the project...
At least one of the tag lines (not to be confused with tags) is:
"Zotero(beta) Citation management is only the beginning."
I offer:
Zotero: Your bookmarks on steroids.
Zotero: Currently legal in MLB.
Zotero: Brainfood for your bookmarks.
Zotero: Tag your bookmarks...you're it.
Zotero: Enhancing your performance through your bookmarks.
Zotero: We enhance your bookmarks; now it's up to you.
Zotero: All-Natural browser enhancement. <wink> <wink>
Zotero: Browser enhancement for men and women. <wink> <wink>
Zotero: Feed me your bookmarks.
Zotero: Bookmarks are better on Zotero.
--Dan
I've just discovered Zotero and think it's got marvelous possibilites far beyond student research. I really hope this import function is still being developed.
All we need to do is convert the bookmark.html file to a bibtex file. Here is ruby file that almost does that : http://www.karl-voit.at/scripts/bmconverter.rb .
I would think there must be other bibliographic software (bibtexutils, jabref, pybib, endnote?) that would import bookmarks directly and that could then export to bibtex. I just haven't found one yet. If I don't, I will try to tweak the ruby converter.
Anyhow, it's not a stumbling block, nor likely even difficult, but we have many feature requests, and this one didn't make 1.0.
Anka
But i had all my old bookmarks that i can't use properly...
Now i am in a mess...
I have two computer (one for work and one for personal use) and i have 2 different bookmarks and 2 different zotero database.
All my information is all over... in four different "databse" because there is not a way of syncronise zotero on the two computers.
so i decided to syncronise the two pc with foxmark for the bookmarks.
And to syncronise the two zotero i am going to try to use foldershare...but i am not sure that i would be able to reach what i am looking for...
All this process is taking me long time... and because the other computer is in the office in which i work, its difficult to set up the syncronisation.(at work i don't have access to internet for my personal computer...)
So maybe i ll be able to sync only one time every two days...
hope that you develop something to fix my problems
One potential advantage is that FF 3 can still import and export bookmarks in Netscape bookmarks format. So too with the Konqueror browser on the Linux platform. And many client-side bookmarks managers can read and write to that format and convert from MSIE Favorites. Such factors lead me to suspect that Zotero import of bookmarks would be of use to more people if the Netscape format were used as the bookmarks import format, rather than talking directly to the Firefox 3 SQLite database. That blinks past synchronization issues, of course.
Folks at Bibsonomy has already done that !
Any news about the subject?
I would really like to be able to import bookmarks, and import html file as bookmarks I think would be the best option since then we could import from different browsers (I think most browsers can export bookmarks as html).
Such an approach would be pretty easy to take, but I'm not sure I understand the use case well enough to say if it matches it. What do you want an imported bookmark to look like? Should it just be a webpage item for that URL? Should it include a snapshot of the page?
First things first - import bookmarks, as per adrian_g's suggestion. Good enough for now.
I/we can sort/categorize/re-arrange later.
Restart Firefox. Now just import and export bookmarks, and let me know how it goes.
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An updated importer and exporter is now up at github, with support for importing tags and descriptions. Export is weak.