A few years ago I was in need of a way to collect and organize the scabillion bookmarks I collect in my wanderings on the web. Being as I had a perfectly good Apache running the simple solution was a webapp with javascript on the front end and php on the back, with a json file for collecting the URL’s. That’s my start page up above.
All worked good until the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox, when self-signed certs and my method of interracting with the json became verboten (Damn you script kiddies!). I could still pull from the json file but adding to it – nadas.
Being a firm believer in the IT maxim ‘If it’s broken, toss it and find a better way’ I decided to build a simply python / sqlite3 app to do the same thing. The bonus is that I can take the whole shebang on the road with me and not stuck to drawing from a local webserver (of course being a semi-hermit how often do I go on the road, eh?)
Anyway this is PUrl, a simple python app to collect and organize the URLs worthy of return visits in your own wanderings. Let me know what you think. It is far, far from beta but even my wife (Betatester #1) says she could use it.
Cheers,
Mark