Re: getting Firefox tabs into org on a mac

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

Hi Andreas,

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 01:12, Andreas Burtzlaff <andy13@gmx.net> wrote:
> I will add an entry to the tab context menu tonight to do this in one
> step.

Thanks, kind of you.

> Concerning syncing I'm not sure I get your plan entirely. Is the main
> purpose of it to synchronize the tabs between different browsers?

Yes, that would be nice.  Also, you don't want to save a
duplicate of the same tab.

It might be useful to have more than one remember template:
one for saving all tabs and one for saving one tab.  Another
idea is to have a button on the status line that you can
left click on to remember one tab.

Apparent bugs and suggestions follow.  (Others not
developing Fireforg need not read.)

===

There was a setting that I didn't understand having to do
with using DOI.  Perhaps how this works can be explained.
Does it use the net?  You might want to mention that it
stands for digital object identifier.

I had to change head -1 to head -n 1 in the pull script to
fix an error in head.  head is /sw/bin/head, perhaps from
some fink or macports package.

Perhaps the error messages in emacs and ff can explain what
you need to do to fix them.  Also, perhaps common
non-working states can be checked for.  That would make it
easier.

I used your suggested template:

  ("fireforg" ?w  "* %:description \n %:link %!")

Sometimes, nothing happens.  Other times, emacs opens a
buffer that is blank.  It expects you to do c-x # to finish
the buffer.  Currently nothing is happening, so I can't
describe that one more fully.

At one point I got this error message.

  error in process filter: Setting current directory: no such
  file or directory,
  /Users/.../fireforg/org-protocol:/remember:/http%3A%2F%2F...

It might be nice to document whether any of the options will
slow Firefox or Emacs down.  (Even if none of them do.)

I noticed that the Read It Later extension no longer has a
button.  Might be a coincidence.

Perhaps giving git instructions would make it easier to dl
the .sh, .xpi, and .el all at once.  "git clone
http://repo.or.cz/w/org-fireforg.git" did not work.
(Something about corruption; I don't have the output now.)

That is all the bug reporting I can do.  I will have to stop
trying to get Fireforg to work.  I cannot make further
attempts as debugging requires far too much physical use of
keyboard and mouse.

Thanks.


On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 17:00, Andreas Burtzlaff <andy13@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:12:42 +0200
> Andreas Burtzlaff <andy13@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:40:54 -0700
>> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I have a huge number of Firefox tabs that I want to get into
>> > org.  Figuring out how has gotten complicated, despite good
>> > documentation out there.
>> >
>> > I want simply title and url for each tab.
>> >
>> > Maybe like this:
>> >
>> >   * Firefox tabs
>> >     * Public Git Hosting - Worg.git/summary
>> >   http://repo.or.cz/w/Worg.git
>> >     * Google Search
>> >   http://www.google.com
>> >
>> > Would be nice to get fancier by allowing annotations (for
>> > use by fireforg?).  And allowing syncing back and forth.
>> > But first, I just want to get started.
>> >
>> > I envision two ways of doing this.  Maybe there are more.
>> >
>> >   1) Have emacs or a script convert one of the folders in
>> >      the bookmark file to an org outline as above.
>> >   2) Have org-mac-protocol set up for individual tabs to be
>> >      clicked to get them remembered.
>> >
>> > If I do (2), then I'd want it to be easy.  That is, without
>> > having to switch from mouse to keyboard.  But does (2) work
>> > on a Mac?  Last I heard, org-mac-protocol works for Safari,
>> > but not Firefox.
>>
>> Fireforg has a workaround for Macs:
>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-devel.php#sec-1.2.6
>>
>> So you could select the tabs one after another and trigger remember
>> from the Fireforg status bar menu. (This menu is accessible by right
>> clicking on the status bar entry.)
>>
>> I will add an entry to the tab context menu tonight to do this in one
>> step.
>
> With the latest version it is possible to pass all tabs to remember
> by selecting "All tabs"-> "remember (..)" in the status bar menu.
> This only makes sense when using a remember template that stores the
> note automatically ("%!" in the template string).
>
> Your proposed format would be:
> "* %:description \n %:link %!"
>
> If the mac workaround is enabled and the latest version of pull.sh is used, then
> this should also work on a Mac.
>
> Andreas
>
>> Concerning syncing I'm not sure I get your plan entirely. Is the main
>> purpose of it to synchronize the tabs between different browsers?
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> > Ideas very welcome.  I am stuck here.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> >
>> > P.S.  I /also/ have a huge number of Safari tabs and a huge
>> > number of emacs-w3m tabs.  I've found those also difficult
>> > to orgify.  So ideas here are also welcome.  But Firefox is
>> > more important now.
>> >
>> >
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