The Hubzilla bookmark manager
One of the perks of going through the Hubzilla code base looking for weird stuff to fix, is that sometimes you find... cool and afaict undocumented features. We all know the
Bookmarks app, and the
#^ prefix to URLs that turn a link into a bookmarkable link. But did you know that you can easily add your own bookmarks without posting them first?
Visit
/rbmark to add a new bookmark. Here you can also create new categories and make your bookmarks more organized.
Even more interesting: you can create a
bookmarklet, by adding a bookmark to your browser with this as the link:
javascript:location.href='[observer.baseurl]/rbmark?url='+document.location.href+'&title='+document.title
Name it something like "Bookmark in Hubzilla", and put it in your bookmarks toolbar. Be sure to replace the
[observer.baseurl] with the URL to your actual hub.
Now, whenever you're reading an interesting webpage that you want to bookmark, you can just click the "Bookmark in Hubzilla" bookmarklet, and it will take you directly to the form.
As bookmark managers go, the one built in to Hubzilla is crude and quite primitive. But it's a good start of something that could turn into a really useful feature. With a bit of care, polish and UX work I can easily see this become another selling point for choosing Hubzilla.
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