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This is a great extension — one that I've been looking for and needing since delicious.com shut down.

But it would be nice if it were built on top of — and not separate from — the Chrome's built-in bookmark system. (https://github.com/evanshultz/neater-bookmarks, for example, integrates with built-in bookmarks.)

As one reviewer on https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmarks-tagging/kmdepbjjhlbhohppiancfgdpkjcoajgb/reviews said:

1. Allow us to tag bookmarks we already have. I want to add tags to the bookmarks that are in my folders, rather than use this as a completely new bookmark system. Now I have to keep track of bookmarks both in Chrome and in this extension separately.
   The only way to do this would be to open all my bookmarks and tag them individually. That's crazy.

Sure, there's an import feature, but then you have 2 duplicate data stores and the risk of adding to one and not the other.

https://github.com/akshaykumar90/savory also correctly lists this as a desirable feature:

MUST work with the existing bookmarks, so that existing features like folders, sorting, sync continues to work

Implementation ideas

Since the built-in bookmark database apparently doesn't support tags natively, might have to use a workaround but I bet it could work. Some possible solutions:

• Consider the folder that a bookmark is stored in to be the first tag and list additional tags as #tag-1 #tag-2 in the title. Then you could actually add/edit tags using the built-in bookmarking feature. (Would probably want to parse and index the tags for fast searching; this would simply be for compatibility.)
• Use folders for tags. Since the built-in bookmarking feature doesn't let you add a bookmark to multiple folders, this extension would be the only way to add additional tags (other than the first tag, from the first folder you add it to). The copy stored in the other folders could have a cryptic name like "(internal)" or "(link)" or "(duplicated here for tagging)" so that it would be clear if you saw it in the built-in Bookmark Manager that this was not the primary version of the bookmark which you should be editing. The duplicates would all be linked together based on the identical URL that they pointed to, and the resulting set would be the list of tags.
• Use a single separate folder for tagging metadata. Like the previous idea but instead of littering duplicate bookmarks all over, all of the metadata related to tags would be encoded (in whatever format was deemed efficient) under a single extension-specific bookmark folder, named something like "Tag metadata" or whatnot. That folder would be managed by the extension only and would not necessarily be human editable or readable (although preferably it would be in case something went wrong and one wanted to manually extract one's data out of it).

How do we rename the titles of the tagged bookmarks?
Is this possible with the current version?
I strongly believe this is a great feature to be missing...
Peace :)

hey yguan, all my tags and bookmarks had dissapear, anyway to fix it?

I don't see any way to configure a keyboard shortcut to add a bookmark with this extension.

This would be very useful usability feature to have so that you don't have to switch to the mouse just to click the button, and then back to the keyboard to type in the tags (!!).

Problem: "Importing bookmarks" displays indefinitely if there are existing bookmarks. Bookmarks are not imported.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Export Bookmarks using Bookmark Tagging extension in Chrome on computer A
2. Import Bookmarks using Bookmark Tagging extension in Chrome on computer B. Computer B has existing bookmarks tagged by this extension.
3. "Importing bookmarks" displays indefinitely.

Actual Result: Bookmarks are not imported on computer B.

Expected Result: Books are imported with either a merge or replace operation.

Comments:

I'm trying to determine how to synchronize bookmark tags across computers. If I can't find an automated means of doing it, I might do this manually if a merge operation is supported.

If Computer B has a fresh install of the extension, I can successfully import the bookmarks.

@yguan - Thanks for developing and open sourcing this extension. It's very useful.

It would be nice if the extension could present me with a list of all my bookmarks.

Hi there,

Thanks for developing this extremely promising extension!

If I use your extension to create bookmarks, are these recognised as normal Chrome bookmarks and thus synced by Chrome across several machines?

Cheers!

Hi, thank you for this. Is there a way to import Firefox bookmarks with tags, using either the html or json file? I've tried importing both to the extension, but I run into the issue that the "importing..." message never goes away.

I have a lot of tags with Firefox already, so this would be very helpful.

Thank you

As a first time user with 20 list of bookmark URLs to go through, it is painful to have to open each URL before I can add a tag to each of them. I can search by keyword which is really helpful but I still have to open each individual URL.

Until Microsoft Edge Extensions start to expand like tagging I'm stuck with using A Chrome Alternative with Chrome Extensions.

Bookmark tagging UI change, eliminate the need to click the bookmark tagging icon start within Chrome and just put the tags within the browser interface.