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A comment on Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?.

Re:Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers? by onion2k on Thursday August 18, 2022 @03:29AM (#32506427)
The one feature that's missing from browser bookmarks in my opinion is aliases. If I could bookmark a page, and then assign it an alias like "hn" so I could just type "hn" in to the address bar to go to that bookmarked page, that would be so helpful. It's possible to do this in Chrome by abusing the site search feature (add a new site search, give it a name, use a URL but don't put a %s search query in it... now it's an alias[1]), and there are plugins[2], but it could be so much better if it was a proper browser-level feature.

[1] https://speedtestdemon.com/productivity-hack-chrome-aliases-...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alias-bookmarks/og...

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Re:Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers? by okramcivokram on Thursday August 18, 2022 @03:41AM (#32506518)
Firefox has this feature. When you edit the bookmark, you have the "Keywords" field that says "Use a single keyword to open the bookmarks directly from the address bar".
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Re:Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers? by karamanolev on Thursday August 18, 2022 @03:33AM (#32506454)
When I name a bookmark in Chrome and then type its name (or parts of it) in the address bar, the bookmark shows up. I need an arrow down (or more, in case of more results), which is definitely suboptimal, but it more or less already works.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers? by jpozo on Sunday August 21, 2022 @10:46AM (#32540699)
I had this problem due to the massive amount of bookmarks I had, but I found an easy way is to add an unique identifier at the end of the name. For example, for HackerNews I'd add hknws to the end of a bookmark so I only have to write those chars and find it easily.

That said, it has to be really unique since browsers usually search for both title and url of the bookmark. I also have the issue that sometimes I want to search in a specific group of folders, so I'm currently working on an extension to scratch that itch.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers? by dijit on Thursday August 18, 2022 @03:41AM (#32506526)
Firefox used to have this (it probably still does), it was called "keywords"; it wasn't very useful for me honestly.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers? by knorker on Thursday August 18, 2022 @03:38AM (#32506486)
To go to hn i just press ctrl-l to go to address bar, then 'n', and chrome already knows the rest, so i press enter.
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