Today I published my first ever browser plugin for Google Chrome - Librarian.
Since I began using the internet in the early 90s I have always bookmarked everything I thought was unique, interesting or helpful, organizing them into folders along my bookmarks bar. However, the internet changes over time, and unfortunately some sites die and go away, pages get unpublished or deleted, etc leaving you with dozens or hundreds of bookmarks. It can be a chore to go through one by one and verify if they still work or not.
Librarian helps out by scanning all of your bookmarks and checking if they still resolve or not. A full, searchable report is generated at the end of the scan letting you review bookmarks, move them to other folders, or simply delete ones that you no longer want or no longer work. For example, if 70 bookmarks were found to be 'bad' or 'dead', you can select them all and delete them instantly.
Here is a video of it in action:
It can be installed in the following browsers via the Chrome Web Store:
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Edge
- Brave
- Vivaldi
This was a real need I had to solve so I built it. It helped me cut my bookmark list in half in no time without spending hours painstakingly going through each link. It also helped me re-organize them quickly, something I had been putting off for a while.
I wrote nearly 45 Playwright tests to cover all the functionality to ensure the plugin works as expected and tested it several ways. All that I ask for is a one-time fee of $4.99 and the plugin is yours forever. Also, if you buy it once, you can install it in any of the other browsers listed and not have to pay again. I believe this is a fair enough price to cover my time and the feature(s) plus support and maintenance down the road.
You can get it today from the Chrome Web Store right here.
Hopefully others find this as useful as I did and continue on curating and bookmarking the internet!