Moving all bookmarking to MB yesterday: I realized the MB bookmarklet won’t work on Arc browser (which I am loving). Found this reddit post: Get Bookmarklets to work : r/ArcBrowser and used the converter to turn bookmarklet into extension and add to Arc. Bookmarking, baby!
Colin Walker I tend not to use bookmarklets but love Arc and this is good to know. Thanks.
The Art Of Not Asking Why ohhhh nice. Same issue here since I started using arc. I love it!!
annie's micro(b)log annie's micro(b)log @DaveyCraney @mtt I just set my bookmarks page up yesterday, still tweaking etc but easy (even for non-tech me) with plugin from @sod / annie.micro.blog/bookmarks…
annie's micro(b)log @colinwalker yes, i only have a couple that I use daily but I really hate to let those go
💬 John Philpin love Arc- but muscle memory keeps stopping me fully adopting AND when i do try to focus - I need the iPad in the flow - and there isn’t a real iPad app.
Re bookmarks - I guess one of their reasons is that their philosophy doesn’t include bookmarks.
💬 John Philpin @pratik gah - the thread talks about bookmarklets and bookmarks - pay attention Philpin!
Martin McCallion @JohnPhilpin I’ve been meaning to try Arc, so I just installed it. But I can’t run it without making an account, and I’m finding myself weirdly resistant to doing that. Not sure why, I’ve got plenty of other accounts. I think I’d just like to try it out first, you know?
annie's micro(b)log @JohnPhilpin Ooh yeah, I can see how getting iPad in the flow would be a problem. I use my iPad daily but separately, e.g. it’s got my music or zoom call or reference material displayed but I don’t do much writing / working ON the ipad.
Torb Now that Arc recently (ish?) added an optional toolbar, it shouldn’t be a big step to add support for traditional bookmarklets. In fact, it could be interesting to see if they find an original and improved spin on them, as they’ve done with many other things. In some ways, I prefer bookmarklets to extensions.
The Art Of Not Asking Why Hmm it doesn’t seem to work for me. I went to the converter, and when I try to drag the booklet into the textbox, it just “poofs” and doesn’t let me drag it. So, I edited the address in the booklet, and pasted it in that way, downloaded the zip and tried to import it with developer mode (as instructed) and now i have an extension… which doesn’t seem to work.
How are you supposed to use it, just click on it when you’re on a page you want to bookmark?
annie's micro(b)log @torb that would be quite interesting.
I also came across [this conversion of bookmarklet to arc boost] (https://www.josheaton.org/how-to-convert-a-bookmarklet-into-an-arc-boost/) which is interesting (though too much for me to attempt)
annie's micro(b)log @jtr Try doing it in Chrome – I added the bookmarklet to my chrome toolbar, then it was easy to drag into the Converter and generate extension. I replaced the icons in the unzipped folder then loaded it into chrome via dev mode, then accessed it in Arc.
Works for me with a click, yes - click on the bookmark and it opens the MB bookmark page with the link preloaded to save.