is there a bookmark manager like jabref for linux url bookmarks?
I use Jabref for papers and books. I group and rate them and keep track of reading status. There are a lot of websites that also provide valuable information but firefox’ bookmark manager can’t be used to rate sites or make comments. I can manually add links which is cumbersome.
Is there a similar tool like jabref for internet links?
In the optimal case it would take firefox’ bookmarks and work with them such that I can bookmark a site with Ctrl+D and do all the site related work within that manager.
edit: Bonus, if it automatically fetches the article to preserve it
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
When you find an interesting article through Google Scholar, the arXiv or journal websites, this browser extension allows you to add those references to JabRef. Even links to accompanying PDFs are sent to JabRef, where those documents can easily be downloaded, renamed and placed in the correct folder.
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.
