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by Alec Muffett

Betatest New Chrome Plugin: BangThruBookmarks: rapid one-click iteration through bookmark folders

Available from http://www.crypticide.com/alecm/chrome/bangthrubookmarks/.

As the description says:

BangThruBookmarks

What it’s for…

In the mornings, with my breakfast, I like to read webcomics, news and geeksites; I used to have just a folder-full of links which I could Open All In Tabs and then go make coffee, come back and close the tabs one-by-one until my daily read is finished.

But then there got to be too many tabs and too much heavy memory use – so I wrote BangThruBookmarks.

How it works…

  1. Somewhere in your bookmarks tree, create a bookmark folder named bangthru

  2. Or any foldername beginning with an exclamation mark, eg: !geek or !News

  3. It can be in your bookmark toolbar, or anywhere in your chome bookmarks…

  4. And you can actually have more than one, because they will be virtually glued together…

  5. And under that/those folder(s) put bookmarks and other subfolders-containing-bookmarks for which you want bangthru access

  6. Then, start hitting the BangThruBookmarks hammer icon

  7. And you will bang through your bookmarks, one by one.

  8. Open new tabs if you want, it works in whatever tab you are currently using.

Feedback…

Development will continue, and ideas and suggestions are welcome – alec.muffett@gmail.com

Todo list…

Date: 19 Jun 2011

  • Allow users to nominate a bangthru folder name of their choice

  • Some manner of reset button on the options or popup page

  • Some manner of start in the middle mechanism (HTML5 slider?)

Known issues…

The ordering of the tabs once they are enqueud can be a bit haphazard; the asynchronous nature of Chrome is the cause, and eventually I’ll work out what to do about this. Suggestions welcome.

I’ve run it on 12.x and 14.x Chrome. No guarantees, sorry 🙂

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Comments

3 responses to “Betatest New Chrome Plugin: BangThruBookmarks: rapid one-click iteration through bookmark folders”

  1. Richard

    Nice, but what’s wrong with adding all the site you like to read to Google Reader?

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    1. alecm

      That’s a fair question; I have this big problem with Reader (and NetNewsWire) that it can languish for days without me reading it, and then the backlog is horrifying.

      For Reddit, Slashdot, BBC and a few other sites, just seeing the front page and seeing if anything piques my interest is more effective than skimming a stream of 1000+ postings looking for something relevant; frequently I am looking for the “20 most upvoted stories” or something, which doesn’t fit well into the RSS metaphor.

      RSS is still great, but it’s not the best solution for me for everything…

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  2. Richard

    Good point. Personally, I tend to keep up with Reader using the web interface and a smartphone app quite well during the day. I have the same backlog issue with Twitter though. I’d love it if I could sort the articles in an RSS feed by importance. It seems that the RSS specification lacks ranking metadata (the PICS/POWDER rating element is not meant for this purpose). The Atom Ranking Extensions look promising but I don’t think any feeds or readers support them.

    I’m not looking for crowd sourced ranking (like Digg/Reddit), but ranking provided by the content creators themselves. A 3-tier system would be good enough: front page material/should read/only if you have nothing else to do. I know this can get very subjective, but so is the selection of what to cover on a site and what not.

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