Bookmarking for Unix Chads (For Browsers, Terminals, IDEs and everything else)

This is how GNU/Unix chads do bookmarking. Literally all you need is a text file and a line of shell code to get what your fancy $39-a-year bookmark manager does. This is just another super-basic use-case of dmenu.
Obviously this doesn't just apply to URLs, but I show that I use it here for text
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[@fbafroguy6200]

2 Luke smith videos within 24 hours, our internet friend is back!

[@goldbitcoin]

Consoooom signals go brrrrr..

[@evan7391]

@@goldbitcoin _-> product consoomed_ _-> correct social values aquired_ _-> awaiting next product_

[@newblue3256]

yay!!

[@ishoulddegoogle]

Guys… he owns a mouse now. We’re losing him.

[@zafuro]

it's over 😔

[@fsmoura]

he'll be sporting an RGB led gamer case in a couple months, you just wait ( o.o)

[@alexandrep4913]

@aerbil3136 I have a family.

[@vvert1506]

id rly like to see music/video production done w/o mouse

[@nixnexus]

@@vvert1506 use a trackpoint? Is that considered a mouse in this case? I'm not sure.

[@therealchonk]

You are one of the few youtubers that actually teach me something new. Thanks for your work.

[@zafuro]

real

[@k3rvyn]

You should broaden your YT experience. There are sooo many really good teacher for any stuff. Luke is one of the worst teacher I've seen :) I am only here, to have fun entertainment. Like watching apes in the zoo throwing poop at each other.

[@therealchonk]

@@k3rvyn I agree that there are more good teachers on this platform, but they teach shit I already know of. Luke on the other side most of the time has new shit for me, that I actually enjoy. > Luke is one of the worst teacher I've seen :) That's something subjective. For me personally he's quite a great teacher (as long as he doesn't talk about conspiracy religion shit)

[@zafuro]

meds

[@bahathir_]

Many years ago, I saved all the bookmarked URL in single html file, and open the file with any web browser. Thank you.

[@libremercadoencrisiseconom2118]

I didn't think exactly this, but I made a Git repo with my own documentation with proper located links

[@isambo400]

I was told to get off the internet so here I am anyway

[@kentandersen9526]

Consooming Luke Smith dmenu content like it’s 2019

[@UngovernableU]

Thank you Mr.Deepfake but I "bookmark" the old way by writing things down.

[@dejanzabaljac6950]

Of topic... Luke, this is by far the best wallpaper i have ever seen in my not so modest opinion! This wallpaper intrigued me so i researched it and found out it was related to a certain book so i started to read it and turns out it was amazing So thanks a bunch!

[@pefclic]

Could you reveal the name of this book ?

[@dejanzabaljac6950]

@@GospodinStanoje The name of the book is "Samarkand"

[@dejanzabaljac6950]

@@pefclic The name of the book is "Samarkand". There is also fantasy book called: "The Amulet of Samarkand"

[@dejanzabaljac6950]

@@GospodinStanoje I have forgot to say who is writer of this book... Samarkand by Amin Maalouf

[@theulysses7236]

@@pefclic Day of The Rope

[@bhaveshverma8629]

Whatever content he has put has a meaning and seeing videos of his on linux is like i am in cloud nine. Thank you.

[@speedyfox9080]

I just use a little script that get the link from my clipboard with xclip and add it to a csv file, and assigns it a type, ranging from F (file, open with vim), L (link, open with firefox) and P (pdf, open with zathura). Very handy thing!

[@jamiejames6374]

Could you share the script perhaps? it sounds interesting

[@ankushhh]

Oh man can't wait to see this video of my favourite youtuber with whom I have a parasocial relationship ☺️

[@trveadu]

MY MAN STILL KICKING ASS. Great to see you again!

[@Klayperson]

you should do `grep -qF "$bookmark"` which will search for a literal string and not as a regular expression, because the thing you want to check for may have special symbols

[@shrizza]

Aka fgrep.

[@averesenso]

@@shrizza deprecated

[@urugulu1656]

i honestly would probably just append to the file regardless and pipe the file through uniq and write it back...

[@BlackberryBoy]

That's awesome Luke. Never thought of adding URLs to a bookmark file using a command.

[@libremercadoencrisiseconom2118]

this guy is really a genius

[@wantedsavage7776]

bookmarks and shortcuts are a life saver.

[@derekstevens164]

Wow this look's like a hard-ass video. I best save this video. Thanks for posting, king.

[@Siger5019]

No description, no tags, no hierarchy. Might as well just memorize URLs.

[@FKLinguista]

I'm unironically liking and commenting for da KZbinz algorithm. I just watched this presentation on my PeerTube instance and I thought maybe it was a "PeerTube Only" goodie. So, I was pleasantly surprised to see it uploaded here as well.

[@libremercadoencrisiseconom2118]

I'm realistic, I don't use PeerTube. but this video is outstanding

[@GooogleGoglee]

My Granma said: you are crazy!

[@mafsi]

😂 when you have 5 links as bookmarks, the method is outstanding!

[@nicolasmorazotti8684]

Nah, it works fine with multiple links. You can add the first column on the file as an alias/title to the website, paste only the second column, and it accepts typing to search.

[@seronymus]

"Stop using the internet" - Lucas "Luke" Smith the very previous day .curious.

[@ideatum1]

thanks for the 2 videos internet bestie!

[@dandan-gf4jk]

Didn't know you can do 'if grep; then' without '[]'. You learn something new everyday with luke

[@vyvanse70mg]

Blessed day for this video.

[@epix4300]

Pretty good video Luke

[@porky1118]

Luke doesn't sort his files, just puts the text of the e-mail in home and doesn't even add a file extension.

[@SiisKolkytEuroo]

I think "file (type) extensions" are a windows thing, they're not generally a thing in the unix world

[@porky1118]

@@SiisKolkytEuroo It's still common on Linux to add file extensions to your files. But I also don't always do it for simple text files, or invent my own endings.

[@channalbert]

I know that was a demonstration, but in case anybody will be using this script in the future it'd be safe to delete the last "$" from the grep command because it's too restrictive since, as I've seen on the file, there are some comments that would wrongly feed "false" in the if-statement.

[@aesculetum]

I have simple scripts to add bookmarks to a file hierarchy on my disk. And I used to have other scripts to generate webpages with the links, because I like having a bookmarks page as homepage in my browser. Been doing this for over ten years. Actually, over 15. I don’t do one big file. I do directories and text files for each url.

[@tornado02ful]

what is your gaming chair called?

[@thesaltypug4565]

It wouldn't work for inserting the location as text for things like vim, but you could also pipe the name into xargs and open it with xdg-open (or not use xargs, idc) (supposing that xdg filetypes are set up correctly). That way you could have tex files automatically open in vim, pdfs open in zathura, urls in the browser, etc,.

[@erdanxiloscient3666]

You could set different bindings for opening vs typing the bookmark. Haven’t tried dmenu, but maybe selecting normally opens and selecting with alt/meta would type the bookmark? A more robust system with opening, saving, typing, auto-sync, etc. can definitely be built upon with a bigger shell script

[@ArniesTech]

The real giga Chad is back 💪😁

[@michaelpercival2787]

I use basically the same script but for inserting characters from different alphabets e.g. super+a, N inserts an Ñ. Not sure if it's the best solution but it werks

[@fluorite]

wow! you are amazing, man

[@patrickprucha5522]

Now this is a good trick!!! thank you!

[@GeorgeFosberry]

Luke posts videos again, feels good man

[@johntully1414]

i recently watched a video of yours from few years ago (piping cat to grep) saying that writing using 'cat' is for noobs since its for concatenate and not viewing a file. here we are, and look whos using cat rather than $ < bookmarks-email

[@zed625]

You should do a video on how to set up full disk encryption on arch linux

[@patrickprucha5522]

by the way Luke. Because of your inspiration, im learning and working with vim ARRRRGGHHHHHH NOT VIM!!!! No huge need, just inspired!

[@monerochan69]

Me I have something similar but I have way too many bookmarks and I can have notes and alternative links for one site (darknet mirrors etc), so it's a directory for me instead of a single text file and individual bookmarks are files. Dmenu goes through the directories and when you eventually select a file it gives the lines and I select the line with the link (usually the first line).

[@trya2l]

Respect. Thanks

[@hugo-garcia]

What do you think about the big tech recession ?

[@aichrist]

Good to see you back, though I would've liked for you return with a broader mindset than bookmarking. Love the public speaking videos.

[@cookiedestroyer402]

C-x r m RET Set the bookmark for the visited file, at point. C-x r m bookmark RET Set the bookmark named bookmark at point (bookmark-set). C-x r M bookmark RET Like C-x r m, but don’t overwrite an existing bookmark. C-x r b bookmark RET Jump to the bookmark named bookmark (bookmark-jump). C-x r l List all bookmarks (list-bookmarks).

[@iLiokardo]

xah-fly-keys. efficient, very nice. it's modal like Vim, you press f for insert mode. 【Space i p】 set bookmark 【Space i o】 open bookmark with ido fuzzy match 【Space i i】 bookmark list the 【Space i】 group has commands that relate to files, like new file, save file as, open last closed, list recently closed, etc. not that crap "but doesn't overwrite bookmark"

[@Willwantstobeawesome]

Honestly, part of why I don't use a text file is because I use the shortcut habitually. It's a bit obvious but I never really considered just making the shortcut myself

[@Penderdrill]

HI LUKE SMITH WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOUR (PLEASE RESPOND)

[@Rundik]

I just send my bookmarks to myself via a messager. Simple, fast and accessible from all devices

[@flanwithaq2724]

I had a dream that I nonchalantly met you on the street while I was skateboarding

[@porky1118]

1:42 What? Using special software for bookmarks is a thing? I'd just open a text file, call it important-links and each line will be a link + small description, if I really need it. Normally I don't do bookmarks at all except in browser itself, so when I need something, most of the time, I have to look it up anyways. And if I don't remember it, it can't be that important.

[@MrRa1nes]

You can filter out duplicates with uniq and sync snippets with git.

[@piotrmartyniuk125]

Dmenu is nice for things which you do not need to remember of the last used item. Otherwise Rofi is a better choice.

[@alexandersanchez9138]

The main thing keeping me tied up in Chromium is that I have a depth-5 filesystem for my bookmarks with branch factor ~8; and chromium has browser integration, so I can easily change to any of my thousands of bookmarks in a handful of clicks with no clutter. Does anybody know of an alternative? I haven’t really even looked into it extensively because the task of transferring my bookmarks seems daunting-but it’s all the more reason to do it sooner rather than later.

[@ChaoticTrack]

Start making backups until you figure it out in case it blows up. A while ago a ton of my bookmarks got shuffled into different folders and I have no idea why. You can export them to HTML from the bookmark manager. If you import them into Firefox you can also get them as JSON.

[@laughingvampire7555]

when you confuse simple with easy

[@rockymtns99]

Luke, I've got a new Larbs install after dealing with a computer crash. I've never messed with dwm until this vid. I was wondering, how did you refresh dwm after setting up the mod-shift-b change? I saw you pulled up dmenu but I don't see renew dwm in my install. Just curious. [UPDATE: I see it when I press MODKEY- backspace!!]

[@Sudo512]

searching for an existing bookmark is an operation that scales linearly with the number of bookmarks O(n). Using some hashing can drop it down to O(1) a constant time call.

[@primepiplup]

That a cool idea, nice

[@ropersonline]

12:12: You could of course add error-checking and only send the notify Bookmark added _after and if_ the echo >> append succeeds. However, that adds complexity, and that hair has a tendency to naturally grow. It may be the case that people who can actually grok and fix problems by writing a one-liner are best served with one-liners, because "brittle" one-liners can be more KISS-compliant, which is another way in which worse can be better if you know what you're doing.

[@erdanxiloscient3666]

edit: pretty one-liner added echo “$bookmark” >> $file && notify-send “added successfully” || notify-send “broken: bookmark not added :(” what about checking a variable which only changes if echo succeeds? For example: added=False echo “$bookmark” >> $file && added=True if [ added ]; then notify-send “added bookmark successfully” else notify-send “something broke: bookmark didn’t add” fi

[@fireblade3682]

Is it just me, or is Luke using a mouse?

[@Monstermagick]

::As I have not watched this video, it is safe to assume the following comment is subsequently unrelated:: Yo, I didn't realize that little dot in the center of my old ThinkPad was actually "essence of ergonomic" sorcery. Thankyou for that knowledge. Damnit I miss that laptop. Now... back to odysee... this space gives me the heebie jeebeiz.

[@dan-purec]

Hey Luke, are you a member of the LGBTQ+ community because I saw your PS1 and looks very cool!

[@brambeer5591]

Based marking

[@TheSolidSnakeOil]

Speaking of your books, did you get the typesetting fix with the printer?

[@Viken43]

Tend to use firefox keyword search to give me the option of finding a page in say arch wiki by using 'aw landchad'... ;-)

[@CarlosSerretQuerol]

How can you have the same options as hif when he types "s" in the terminal in 7:00 ? (all those command names show up to him, but in my larbs terminal it shows zsh: command not found)

[@erdanxiloscient3666]

It looks like he has an alias for `s` which shows the executable scripts he has. You don’t have the alias which is why you got “command not found”. You can check his github profile under his larbs or dotfiles projects to see if s is aliased to anything in his zsh config and copy it over

[@michaelmas9817]

hey, I've made a shell script with similar functionality a couple of years ago!

[@coffeeinthelibrary5391]

What is the 'sn' binding in larbs? I think I missed that in the explanation.

[@pebbles2046]

It may look sound and simple until mobile phones are involved. This method is hardly applicable to IPCs in android or ios; they are not shell based interface. Although Luke doesn't use phones that often, even he would admit that using keyboards in touch screens are pain in the ass.

[@erdanxiloscient3666]

You can sync the file, so it’s just a matter of making it convenient to use. On ios there’s the “shortcuts” app which offers basic scripting capability and is provided by apple. Android is much more lenient, so there’s a lot more ways to incorporate it and more conveniently.

[@ezu5131]

dmenu chads stay winning

[@boldinvladimir]

What's the window manager on the video?

[@fitzpatrickmathemati]

Could even store the bookmark file in a (private) remote git repo and use that for syncing. Could also imagine a tree structure for multiple bookmark files analogous to the design of pass!

[@highvisibilityraincoat]

when is crypto being added to lindypress?

[@thanos3347]

Linux mint for life

[@Nick-zw7gg]

Where do you get "larbs" from?

[@netsaosa4973]

Computer

[@dark_sunset]

im new to linux. can someone help me understand how he got the multicolored terminal text [luke@desktop ~]?

[@viophile]

You can do all that or just press ctrl+d 🤣

[@SoRusted]

did he just started reuploading

[@libremercadoencrisiseconom2118]

ok Luke Smith. I'm watching this from a productive perspective against your forecasts; but let me tell you, that although I use GIMP, ffmpeg, Git, Tor, and many cmd tools instead of buggy GUI.. I stand steady with JS Lang instead of a bash bad designed language. many young people want to learn JavaScript easily with an intuitive beginning, but Windows is not the "go". I would urge you to poll a quest to find what are the issues of people trying to get experience for a first job, and commend practices along with JS' EXECA bridge

[@libremercadoencrisiseconom2118]

@Aerbil313 thank you, I think it's far from being achieved even by Microsoft. because it doesn't know which programmes are versatile like ffmpeg. you still need parameters so it's not AI

[@lalmiahmed3573]

Luke is using a MOUSE !! A wireless mouse I think

[@fruitedlight]

when I installed dwm, It didn't show me all the dates and things it shows for you in the top right corner. How can I make it do that?

[@Porodnikov]

dwmblocks

[@wheezybackports6444]

Wait he's not in the woods?

[@fsmoura]

Is this not the woods?!?? ( o.o)

[@sjuvanet]

using a computer mouse. shameful. did your unicomp crap out?

[@אדרששון]

tl;dr; i want configurability of makeing code files in gui another something could be simplefied is gui toolbars they can basicly be dyrectories (but the programs inside need to be configurable to what they activate on) another idea is gui program, simple programs can configer it and use it as gui (the user can configer it too)

[@erdanxiloscient3666]

Does making dmenu clickable do what you want? I remember Luke mentioning that in his dmenu video forever ago

[@אדרששון]

@@erdanxiloscient3666 its more about that outhers will do the work of creating little programs for me, the toolbar thing is about makeing it look like a comprhensive envayrment (good luck with my bad spelling)

[@achmadfariz9219]

What is the name of software?

[@jacoblaguna5371]

LUKE SMITH YOU RUINED DENSITY 2 WITH FOMO!!!!

[@commandertaboo7734]

keep posting simple things like this the more exposure is the best

[@ux7188]

dude just press the star in the browser Done......

[@fsmoura]

the goal is to never touch the mouse, bruh

[@urugulu1656]

i honestly wonder about the profanity command...

[@YourmanLukeSmith75]

My whole name is Luke Smith😮

[@chickenwings273]

luke ur website is downn

[@henlofren7321]

I'll stick with the windows clipboard :D

[@henlofren7321]

​@Aerbil313 Have fun recreating the wheel every time you need to do something so basic :)

[@DiegoRockLoiro]

The soydev fears the chad

[@henlofren7321]

@@DiegoRockLoiro When would Chad ever pick up a Linux distro?

[@𩛗]

Linux is Unix-like, not UNIX. UNIX is proprietary software that linux tries to mimic, same thing goes with the *BSDs. Most people that has used UNIX in the 90s and 2000s has moved onto Linux.

[@darukutsu]

we know that but saying "UNIX" vs "UNIX-like" (

[@TehGettinq]

@@darukutsu that exact argument followed by "way more easier" is genius.

[@erdanxiloscient3666]

@@TehGettinq many people forget that living the unix philosophy is not just about character count, but also mental overhead. If it gets the point across exactly, then there is no need to be more precise due to diminishing returns. “UNIX-like” is correct, but many people will understand “UNIX” to include linux and the BSDs. “way more easier” conveys how much easier it is and was typed as a passing comment, so no grammatical checking is needed. /j (this might ironically be why typing on the internet is the way it is)

[@HyenaEmpyema]

Not even 2 years ago you were making videos talking about how stupid crypto was, now that it benefits *you* , you're shilling for donations as if that never happened. did you forget 6 of 😆these? ()

[@DiegoRockLoiro]

Holly shit that’s a really stupid thing to say, I know it has been a year but damn… why would you write something so dumb?

[@limpa756]

HES USING A MOUSE

[@fsmoura]

the end is nigh

[@aesculetum]

I can’t believe how low Brodie has fallen. He is now a Rust and SystemD apologist. Maybe I should be amazed how based Mental Outlaw remained.

[@isrmarz5222]

Hello my baldo friendly friend I hope we meet soon as I always considered you as my close friend greetings from your friend from Brazil, please come to Brazil.

[@Gurj101]

when computer was new i was a child and i learned about html. I did not know what bookmarks were in a browser so i just had an html file which stored all the websites that i wanted to visit.(usually flash game sites lol 😂) if you only need it in a browser having an html file with just links and having it as a homepage is also an easy way

[@josipX]

Imagine ever using "else" 11:23

[@anieziisandezzlas]

Stop calling the GNU operating system "Linux"

[@leonardonovara9348]

Just use Emacs, bro.

[@fsmoura]

no need to get another operating system just to store some bookmarks (" -.-)

[@LOL-on7oc]

bald guy