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Bookmark Launcher (launch your bookmarks from the terminal)

This CLI allows you to open your bookmarks from the terminal. If you would like to, check it out in the Github repository:

Let me know what you think!
If you would like to contribute or give ideas please reach out!

Story

When I started using Windows instead of a MacOS to code at my job, I missed a lot of things. One of those was Alfred, which I used all the time, specially to quickly open URLs, either saved separately or from my Google bookmarks.

After searching for a Windows alternative to fit my use case I was not satisfied with what I found. Hence, I designed exactly what I was searching for: an App/CLI which parses my bookmarks and enables me to open them quickly from the terminal. Since I always have the terminal open (in MacOs I used iTerm2 with zsh and in Windows I use Cygwin with zsh) it works nicely for me.

I coded this CLI in Node JS and followed a Kanban approach (I even created stories in a board!) to make things more enjoyable since I love Agile.

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Commands

The CLI is very simple to use.

To read all your bookmarks and process them to a json file:

  • bml run-save

To launch a bookmark:

  • bml <bookmark_name>

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