Cocoalicious
I’ve been using ma.gnolia for my online bookmarking for a little while now, and the non-private bookmarks appear automatically in the sidebar of this site. I like ma.gnolia a lot, but I’ve had a tendency to use it mostly for bookmarks that want to publish on this blog, and largely in a write-only way. Part of that is because it always seems like a bit of work to log in to ma.gnolia and search through bookmarks for one that I’m looking for. So for sites that I’m marking for my own use — ones that I know that I’ll want to refer to later — I tend to use Safari’s own bookmarking feature. But that means that I lose the tagging capability, and I have to look in two places if I can’t remember where I saved something.
There are plenty of desktop bookmarking applications which access your de.icio.us bookmarks, but not so many for ma.gnolia, being a relative newcomer. However, they publish an mirrord API which (as the name suggests) mirrors the de.icio.us API. This means that you can use many of the desktop clients intended for de.icio.us, as long as the software lets you specify the URL of the API. So I’ve started using Cocoalicious, which is a very nice Open Source de.icio.us client. The trick seems to be to enter the API as follows:
http://your_username:your_password@ma.gnolia.com/api/mirrord/v1
and then enter a single space for both your username and password when prompted. The rating star system in Cocoalicious doesn’t link up with the rating stars in ma.gnolia, but everything else works perfectly. It’s a very nice bit of software — it’s pleasingly simple to add links via a bookmarklet in your browser, but also very fast to find what you want by text in the URL, description or by the tag. Now I’m saving all my bookmarks (private and public) in ma.gnolia, and accessing them using Cocoalicious.
1
If you happen to use Yojimbo as well, you might be interested in the AppleScript I wrote to synchronise Yojimbo with del.icio.us via Cocoalicious. Should work fine for Magnolia via Cocoalicious too. I haven't touched the code in ages though, I'd check it over before running it!
by James Webster @ 14/11/2007 11:10 pm • Permalink •
2
If you're not overly attached to Safari, you could give Flock a look (if you didn't already).
Some love it, some hate it. I'm in the love camp.
It has support for del.icio.us and ma.gnolia built in. I only use del.icio.us for my bookmarks, so I never have to worry about syncing bookmarks between my home and office machines.
by Martin Polley @ 15/11/2007 6:34 am • Permalink •
3
James Webster: I do use Yojimbo, as it happens, so I'll have to check your script out -- sounds good!
Martin Polley: I'd heard about Flock a while ago, but hadn't tried it out. Your description of it piqued my curiosity, so I downloaded it. My impressions are here.
by bsag @ 15/11/2007 7:03 pm • Permalink •
4
I used cocoalicious for a while and though it's quite nice, and I like the idea of desktop apps that allow you to interact with web2.0 services, but It felt a little rough, mostly in the fact that it would occasionally loose contact with the server but never notify me that it couldn't talk to the mother-ship. When I'd close the program, the links would be lost. It was annoying, and after the second time this happened, I started using Pukka, which is a great little app that does the same thing, just more reliably, I guess. It's not open source, but these things happen.
Cheers, sam
by tycho @ 22/11/2007 4:50 pm • Permalink •
5
Unfortunately Cocoalicious only for Mac, what is the best variant for windows?
by Photofan @ 06/05/2008 11:40 am • Permalink •
Page 1 of 1 pages