Annie
Annie

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!

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SimonWoods
SimonWoods

@Annie ... it's a browser that doesn't support bookmarklets? Huh.

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Mtt
Mtt

@Annie Is it @sod's plugin you're using to publicly display them?

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Annie
Annie

@Mtt yes! made it so easy

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Annie
Annie

@SimonWoods yeah not a smart move imo

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manton
manton

@Annie Excellent! I haven't tried Arc yet but that's great to know.

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pratik
pratik

@Annie Yup! @jack pointed me to that converter a few days ago. That was one of the biggest missing pieces in Arc. Of course, we can't expect it to auto-fill 2FA codes sent to Messages but that would be perfect.

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DaveyCraney
DaveyCraney

@Mtt I’d seen people discussing the bookmarking feature for premium. Hearing you can display them publicly on the site might make me dive in! I like the sound of that!

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@Annie I tend not to use bookmarklets but love Arc and this is good to know. Thanks.

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jtr
jtr

@Annie ohhhh nice. Same issue here since I started using arc. I love it!!

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Annie
Annie

@manton yep, worked like a charm.

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Annie
Annie

@pratik count on @jack to have a solution! And agree the autofill 2FA would be 💯

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Annie
Annie

@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...

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Annie
Annie

@colinwalker yes, i only have a couple that I use daily but I really hate to let those go

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Annie
Annie

@jtr I was delighted that it was so easy to do!

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@Annie 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.

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pratik
pratik

@JohnPhilpin Think @Annie is talking about bookmarklets. The "Bookmarks" actually are supported extensively via tab groups and profiles.

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@pratik gah - the thread talks about bookmarklets and bookmarks - pay attention Philpin!

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devilgate
devilgate

@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?

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DaveyCraney
DaveyCraney

@Annie it’s really cool! I think I’m gonna go for it 😎

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@devilgate yeah, not sure exactly why that is.

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Annie
Annie

@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.

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torb
torb

@Annie 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.

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jtr
jtr

@Annie 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?

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Annie
Annie

@torb that would be quite interesting. I also came across this conversion of bookmarklet to arc boost which is interesting (though too much for me to attempt)

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Annie
Annie

@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.

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