buku is a powerful bookmark manager and a personal textual mini-web. There’s no tracking, hidden history, obsolete records, usage analytics or homing.
buku can import bookmarks from browser(s) or fetch the title, tags and description of a URL from the web. Use your favourite editor to add, compose and update bookmarks. Search bookmarks instantly with multiple search options, including regex and a deep scan mode (handy with URLs).
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Store bookmarks with auto-fetched title, tags and description.
- Auto-import from Firefox, Google Chrome, Chromium and MS Edge.
- Open bookmarks and search results in browser.
- Browse cached page from the Wayback Machine.
- Text editor integration.
- Lightweight, clean interface, custom colors.
- Powerful search options (regex, substring…).
- Continuous search with on the fly mode switch.
- Portable, merge-able database to sync between systems.
- Import/export bookmarks from/to HTML, XBEL, Markdown, RSS or Orgfile.
- Smart tag management using redirection (>>, >, <<).
- Multi-threaded full DB refresh.
- Manual encryption support.
- Shell completion scripts, man page with examples.
- Privacy-aware (no unconfirmed user data collection).
Website: github.com/jarun/Buku
Support:
Developer: Arun Prakash Jana
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
buku is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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