Importing “Bookmarks”

I still haven’t established a single workflow to import “bookmarks” into WordPress.

Here’s some of the things I’ve tried:

  • The Import Bookmarks plugin, which I wrote in order to import browser bookmarks (the kind of file you’d manually export from your web browser)
  • A Mastodon importer, now archived, which let you import your latest “toots” (which could be bookmarks)
  • A wallabag importer, which automatically imports your most recent wallabag—a self-hosted read-it-later app—entries
  • A couple tweaks to the Micropub plugin’s behavior, bundled with my “IndieWeb Custom Post Types” plugin—currently using this on mobile, together with Indigenous for Android
  • Some tweaks to WordPress’s “Press This” bookmarklet, or rather, its server-side “listener”—currently using this to create (unpublished, for now) “read posts” rather than bookmarks, but the idea’s the same
  • A “text expander”—I’ve found aText works okay on Windows—to turn a URL on my OS’s clipboard into the proper microformatted HTML; requires me to copy the URL, log in to WordPress, start a new post, and type, in my case, ubookmark

Somewhat related projects:

  • Sync OPML to Blogroll: automatically keeps your WordPress blogroll up-to-date
  • Add OPML to Yarns: adds a very proof-of-concept OPML endpoint to your Yarns—a WordPress-based Microsub server—install

2 responses to “Importing “Bookmarks””

  1. Jan Boddez Avatar

    Maybe the wallabag one isn't too bad. Supports annotation, and I can "trigger" imports with a tag of my choosing (e.g., "bookmark").

  2. Jan Boddez Avatar

    Currently leaning toward Indigenous on mobile, though, and "Press This" on desktop.