Hi everybody!
Hey, OK, I'm tough. I know this. I can handle trudging through thousands of Safari bookmarks accumulated by me over the past 3 centuries, separately deleting, moving, and/or renaming each one.
But isn't there a better way?
Then this dim, flickering light bulb lit up over my head! And I got to thinking. (No, it didn't hurt.)
Maybe there's an app or keyboard shortcuts or some tricks and tips people have come up with for doing all that in a way that takes far less time and effort?
Yes?
Looking around. Please say yes?
Anybody?
Dreading the tedious chore ahead, and hoping for better.
Joy!
Bruce
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Accessibly, of course
I see a few bookmark organizer apps in the app store. Does anyone use them? How is the accessibility?
Complicated
I researched this a little bit, first by reading the AppleScript definitions for Safari, which don't contain any bookmark management code, and requesting the source of the Bookmarks page after telling Safari to open it returned absolutely nothing so AppleScript and thus Shortcuts was out of question. Next I used
plutilfrom the command-line to read the contents of~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plistwhich requires granting Terminal full disk access, but unfortunately the data isn't structured in a way that is practical to organize by hand. Xcode does have a built-in Property List editor that you can access by typingxed ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist, but it's not the most usable thing ever in terms of accessibility which is why I prefer to manage these files from Terminal. You can in theory write a shell script to organize the bookmarks in whatever way you intend usingplutil, but I suppose that's not exactly what you are looking for.Thanks for trying
It looks like I'm just going to have to go through all of my bookmarks, one by one, creating folders, deleting and moving. Sigh. Thanks for trying. I appreciate your effort.