Links to navigator's bookmarks - Nice To Have : linking to the BM collection's FOLDERS

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I’m new to Joplin, after a long exploration of alternatives.

INTRO :

I’m very very enthusiast:
I’m geared towards Knowledge Management ( K.M. ) since before year 2000.

Today, K.M. has almost totally shifted to the web, or should have.
The various offers are not that often attractive. :face_with_diagonal_mouth:

Joplin is the winner, for sure ( for me ).

So, K.M. being happening on the web,
it should be kept centered mainly (solely) on the BOOKMARKS,
which means that every process (use-case) should happen within the navigator, or as close as possible,

  • without information duplication
  • and probably in one’s preferred navigator.

NB : storage : Softwares stroring mainly on local devices are not on the wright way, because we are all working in several places with different devices. Joplin is on the right track about this.

My navigator is Firefox;
I’m intensively using the “Bookmark search plus 2” plugin, which is wonderful for several reasons, but the first one being the compact layout of the bookmarks Tree
NB : the preset request is the same, with this plugin or not: the bookmarks source in the same in FFX, without or with this plugin.

My projects with Joplin are mainly making use of the Joplin button in Firefox,
and I mostly use ‘add URL’, and - after this - I add a note related to this WebPage’s URL

Demand : request for feature

As an evidence - in K.M. - , the bookmarks have to be grouped ans classified.

Notes need often to be related - NOT ta a specific webpage - but to the theme which lead to whatever search engine search.
For example : “Google Search about Elections in Belgium 2025” :
This is my search, so this is ± the naming of a folder which will shell a couple of URLs

For implementing that, it should be very easy, if not yet :
Folders are constituent items of the official document model for bookmarks , independantly of which navigator is used.

Looking forward

This being implemented, Joplin Notes as K.M. tool would be largely increased:
NOTES would be :

  • more pertinent,
  • more structured,
  • less scattered :
    (less confused with global theme informations scattered within specific webpages notes (detail scoped notes).

Is this in the roadmap for Joplin?
Is there a turnaround in the expectation of that?
NB : Would Mozilla be working/preparing on features like this, like functionalities Joplin is offering?

Thanks on forward
P-Y D.

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I’m sorry, I found it difficult to understand a lot of what you wrote. In particular, I don’t understand how you want Joplin to relate to web pages / bookmarks and your web browser / Firefox

I think as whole you would like to be able improve how notes can be better organised with Joplin? Some means of doing this which are currently implemented are:

  1. Use notebooks to group notes together
  2. Use nested notebooks to make subcategories of notes
  3. Use tags to group / categorise notes by topics / subjects across a variety of notebooks
  4. A note can reference another note using a markdown link
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Dear,

I have to apologize:

I was a couple of weeks off from Joplin testing/adopting, and , coming back, I omitted to check about the feature I did need: it is already present. :slight_smile:

Joplin is really good , as is.

However, please allow me to come again with the issue of

“The navigator kept in the center of the knowledge collecting process”.

:wink:

I disgarded my forum-answer to your reaction, but I kept its content in .. a Joplin Note, here. Only the very end of it keeps relevant (accompanied by the snapshots above it).

I reformulate it herunder. From now on, the scope of my suggestion is restricted to :

Explore possibilities of better using the Netscape bookmarks format, as to enable ‘FOLDERS’ items of the bookmarks tree to benefit of some more metada inside :

at least a URL field, which could lead to an external reference; in our case, the external reference is a Joplin Note dedicated to this very folder.

Doing so, we avoid to nest a bookmark just under the folder’s bough, which solution ( see my above mentioned snapshots ) was less robust: such an item is suspect to be untimely moved around while searching on the web with bookmarks’ sidebar open.

You find attached a big bookmarks File :
2025-12-14_10-55-21 Partial Bookmarks Export_ Autres marque-pages.html (4.3 MB)
(in MDN Bookmarks doc object model ).

Following MDN, , the Description List element encloses a list of groups of terms (specified using the <dt> element) and descriptions (provided by <dd> elements

Here an extract :

<DT><H3>LECTURES ET INFOS</H3>
	<DL><p>
		<DT><A HREF="https://www.bibliomania.be/">Bibliomania |

Tree folders/subfolders are DT tags, as are the bookmarks items.
It should be easy to affect URLs to folder’s as well as to bookmarks.
Of course, the original bookmarks items are stored in sqlite fields and not in html, but this is instead a good news, at 2 conditions :

  1. Could a new (Joplin? ) plugin access in write mode to these sqlite data?
  2. Would the navigator display the folders Items as an hyperlink (when an URL is present)

Such a solution (a plugin?) would be the best of the 2 worlds :

  1. The generalist Navigator as the main knowledge store (inside bookmarks collection),
  2. and Joplin as the content adding tool when needed : notes, privileged topics, notes to be published and shared etc

Any opinion on this?
Thanks on forward

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I still don’t understand what you’re trying to say. It sounds like you are making a feature request of some kind, but I still am unsure what the feature actually is.

I asked ChatGPT to summarise the feature you are requesting, would you say this is accurate?

The user is asking for a way for Joplin to better integrate with web browser bookmarks — specifically:

When browsing in a web browser, easily see whether there is already a Joplin note related to the current webpage/bookmark.

Automatically associate or link browser bookmarks with corresponding Joplin notes.

Avoid duplication of links/notes and improve the workflow between browser bookmarks and Joplin notes for knowledge management.

The idea is to treat Joplin notes as related to URLs/bookmarks and to make it easy to manage them without switching contexts manually. 
Joplin User Content

In short, the request is for better bookmark-to-note linking and integration, so that when you save or view a bookmark in your browser you can see and interact with the corresponding Joplin note if one exists.

You also mentioned the ‘Bookmark search plus 2’ Firefox plugin in your original post, which is what you’re using for your advanced bookmark management. I’m not familar with this plugin or the concepts within it. But it seems like what you would like is a Joplin integration within the ‘Bookmark search plus 2’ plugin, rather than changes to Joplin or a separate browser plugin? Is that correct?

EDIT: The above ChatGPT summary summarised your link (2025-12-13_JoplinForum_Thank you for your rapid reaction. - Joplin Cloud). The rest of the content of your last post is bit more specific, but it still seems like you are requesting a feature in the bookmark management system, rather than in Joplin?

enable ‘FOLDERS’ items of the bookmarks tree to benefit of some more metada inside

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Thank you for your interest.

What I'm trying to say : Yes, a kind of feature request: feature request towards Joplin ( if nobody has solutions without new feature adding )

Summary (ChatGPT) : quite ok for the main lines, not for the navigator side of the scenario proposed:

All this is well summarized, but actually, the softwares (FFX + Joplin) are already not bad at all for these) :
The user is asking for a way for Joplin to better integrate with web browser bookmarks — specifically:

  • When browsing in a web browser, easily see whether there is already a Joplin note related to the current webpage/bookmark.
  • Automatically associate or link browser bookmarks with corresponding Joplin notes.
  • Avoid duplication of links/notes and improve the workflow between browser bookmarks and Joplin notes for knowledge management.

The idea is : YES : goood summary as well :
The idea is to treat Joplin notes as related to URLs/bookmarks and to make it easy to manage them without switching contexts manually.

Here : NO , not exactly : the proposal is more pecific :
”In short, the request is for better bookmark-to-note linking and integration, so that when you save or view a bookmark in your browser you can see and interact with the corresponding Joplin note if one exists”.

Bookmark search plus 2 :

  • This plugin is not at all essential in the proposed scenario, and a solution working with original bookmarks manager of FFX should normally straightforward work with Bookmark search plus 2 (bookmarks collection is the same, in the Mozilla Firefox AppDatas).

  • Bookmark search plus 2 has 3 big advantages for me, compared to navigator’s ones :
    . permanently/ergonomically visible in sidebar
    . layout is compact, the tree is well visible on mid-size screen;
    . the top combobox for searching, equipped also with a context menu is really very helpful for searching among my bookmarks AND among my folders of bookmarks
    (which is often more efficient, for ex. : "where is the result collection of all the pages I visited for tourism in Granada" : I’ll look for a folder named ‘Granada’, better than for Alhambra Tickets’ which is too specific)

  • Bookmark search plus 2 is only a modest plugin, not a software/platform like Joplin: there is no concurrence between them. I only mean that the navigator has to be kept as the master store, he base.
    And Joplin is an enrichment, but only for a small percentage of the bookmarks : never the global collection of bookmarks should be cenralized in Joplin ( >< duplication).

  • ? "My preference for a Joplin integration within the ‘Bookmark search plus 2’ plugin, rather than changes to Joplin or a separate browser plugin” ? :
    . "integration of Joplin with the ‘Bookmark search plus 2’" : No, not necessarily
    . "changes to Joplin" : not needed , I think
    . a separate browser plugin : YES ! precisely,
    (and/or a complement in the existing Joplin Plugin)

  • ? "It still seems like you are requesting a feature in the bookmark management system, rather than in Joplin" :
    .YES : I'm requesting a feature RELATED TO the "bookmark management system",
    . but I suppose I'm not in a position to suggest to Mozilla to add a feature;
    . more probably JOPLIN could implement something, like a plugin.
    The challenge here is to broaden the READ** access to the bookmarks database** :
    ability/permission to equip the 'folder' type

    elements with a URL, like it is for bookmarks items

As conclusive arguments :

  • A Plugin like proposed just here above is necessary and sufficient as to enable webworkers to better integrate their navigator with their advanced knowledge tools, like Joplin.
  • This plugin - in first analysis - has nothing specific to Joplin
  • But Joplin would get in added-value with this single possibility :
    "Adding/Associating NOTES to Folders of the bookmarks Tree", and not only to bookmarks themselves
  • Very shortly, it is only a matter of enabling folder-type tags to shelter an URL, aside with the only available metadata available up-to -day ( the 'Term' tag:
    )

I thank you a lot for your attention

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Ok, I think I roughly have an idea of what you want.

I don’t think a plugin for Joplin is really the solution though, as the bookmark management is very much driven by the web browser (Firefox). I agree it is not too appropriate to request Mozilla to implement a feature for your use case, but a browser plugin would seem the most suitable way to implement your feature request.

I’m not sure who has experience in this area though, as the contributers on this forum mainly contribute to the Joplin application itself, or Joplin plugins

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Thank you.
Indeed, as you say…
I could have a chat with the developer of ‘BookmarksSearch+2, or in MDN or Stackoverflow …
If anything raises up, I’ll feed back here.
Greetings

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Thank you both, interesting discussion. I’ll check out the Bookmark search plus 2 plugin, as well!