Bookmark Management in "flat file"


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Over the last 5 years or so, I've accumulated a lot of bookmarks. I've been exporting them using Firefox into a bookmark.html file. I haven't used Firefox to store the bookmarks into different folders. I've editied the bookmark files now and its not practical to sort them back into folders at this point. And firefox slows/crashes with a lot of bookmarks in its folder.

Details are below, but simply what I would like is either a program to categorize the bookmarks based on keywords.

E.g. Computing or computers would have a list of bookmarks like so:

1 site 1

2 site 2

3 ...

4 ...

and the output can be saved as an HTML file. It makes it easier to manage between OSes this way. If a Windows program is recommended, I have to be able to export the categorized results in the same style displayed to my Mac. I use my Mac 99% of the time.

I've looked on Sourceforge, Hotscripts.com, freshmeat, CPAN, etc (mostly for either C or perl scripts that would do this. Nothing I have found has proved stable, functional or CGI, Mysql or Web independent. E.g. a lot of the sourceforge projects assume you want to keep "everything" in a MySQL database.

So other than using Firefox or IE (its too late now!) to orgranize/ categorize my bookmarks ... are there any suggestions?

Here are some more details:

There are a few sites I'd like to revisit but I've probably bookmarked every interesting site and I know I have over 2000 saved bookmarks. No duplicates. Many of these are junk but its really hard to sort through them all.

I've been using Unix tools like uniq (to get rid of duplicates) and sort (to sort the bookmarks in some order).

I've tried a few bookmark manager programs on my Mac (and looked at a few Windows ones). They don't do the job I'd like to since you lock yourself into using the program (at least to keep the bookmarks organized) but it doesn't do a good job of categorizing them.

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