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README.md

@@ -1,7 +1,50 @@
 *FR → LISEZMOI.md*
-# Demo
+
+**Work in progress, if you encounter any issues regarding
+installation or understanding what this is all about, please send an
+email to contact@martinlemaire.fr or open an issue here and i'll be
+happy to answer**
+
+A browsable webpage generated from a textual database you might want to
+use as a browser homepage. You can edit the database by editing the file
+called BOOKMARKS or by running the provided script called
+edit_bookmarks_dmenu.sh (requires dmenu). The script can be ran from the
+command line but I suggest to bind it to a keystroke combination.
+
+index.html
 ![a browsable bookmark manager](demo.png)
-**A demo more understandable and browsable to be released soon**
+Its corresponding textual database, in the form of blankline separated
+records with key/value fields :
+
+BOOKMARKS
+```
+URL: http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/HEX_(Unifont)
+Name: HEX (Unifont) - Just Solve the File Format Problem
+Description: 
+Tags: bbb, hex
+Date: 1704636690
+Color: Pink
+
+URL: http://robhagemans.github.io/monobit/
+Name: Hoard of bitfonts
+Description: A python tool to manipulate bitmap fonts and do format conversions
+Tags: bitmap, fonts
+Date: 1704639859
+
+URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_(Unix_shell)
+Name: wish (Unix shell) - Wikipedia
+Description:  a Tcl interpreter extended with Tk commands for unix.
+Tags: gui, wish, tcl
+Date: 1704646543
+
+URL: https://www.kreativekorp.com/
+Name: Rebecca G. Bettencourt
+Description: 
+Tags: RGB, people, hide
+Date: 1704648764
+```
+Given this database, signet will color the first link in pink and hide
+the last one because of its "hide" tag.
 
 # Presentation
 ## signet.sh
@@ -10,50 +53,62 @@ It uses awk inside a here-doc declaration redirected to an html file.
 
 I have created this script because I found the bookmarks manager from
 firefox not great to use, to the point where I did not have the habit to
-bookmark my browsing. Firefox stores bookmarks in a sqlite format and I
+bookmark my browsing journeys. Firefox stores bookmarks in a sqlite
-wanted something text based.
+which is not human readable. Although it allows an export in json and
-
+html, I wanted something text based and personal.
-I have been using the generated html page as a default landing page for
-three months, it has been a pleasing experience so far.
 
 ## Bookmarks database format
 Only a Url is required, the rest of the fields are optional :
-* URL : ...
+* URL : the url pasted from the clipboard (exits if no url given)
-* Name : grabs </title> from the bookmarked page
+* Name : grabs </title> from the bookmarked page with curl
-* Description : ...
+* Description : a description from the user
 * Tags : comma separated keywords
 * Date :  posix time of the bookmarked link 
 * Color : css color (name, hex, rgb etc...)
 
-For example, in a file called BOOKMARKS by default:
+# Usage
-```
+## Add a bookmark : 
-URL: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code
-Name: Rosetta Code
-Description: 
-Tags: literacy, read
-Date: 1704675057
-Color: Purple
 
-URL: https://www.emigre.com/TypeSpecimens
+To add a link, I select the URL of the page with Ctrl + l, then copy to
-Name: Emigre: Type Specimens
+clipboard and run add.sh with Super + i. 
-Description: 
-Tags: emigre, type
-Date: 1704680644
 
-URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20211025182257/http://len.falken.ink/
+__If anyone knows how to retrieve the url of the current browser page
-Name: Wayback Machine
+without having to copy it and send it to clipboard, this would save two
-Description: 
+steps out of three.__
-Tags: read
+
-Date: 1704712747
+In short : Ctrl + l, Ctrl + c, Super + i
+
+(or shorter : Ctrl + l + c, Super + i)
+
+Super + i because in my window manager (awesomewm) configuration file
+located in ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua, I have the following lines:
+```
+awful.key({modkey}, "i", function()
+awful.util.spawn_with_shell("add.sh") end, 
+{description = "Sends the link in clipboard to add.sh"}),
 ```
+## Edit a bookmark :
 
+Use your text editor of choice. Open the BOOKMARKS file and edit the
+entry. The last entry is at the bottom.
 
-# Other bookmark managers:
+If you use vim, with BOOKMARKS opened you can press in normal mode m +
-- nb https://xwmx.github.io/nb/ (AGPL-3.0)
+B and it will save a mark to the file you can then access with ' + B
-- ??
+
+# Installation
+Works on my machine : Ubuntu 20 LTS, it should work on any POSIX
+compliant machine, macOS, linux* or bsd*. I'm curious to know how it
+goes on windows :^)
+
+clone the repo
 
+```
+git clone https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/clemtre/signet.sh.git
+cd signet.sh
+```
 
 # Dependency :
+
 To add a link via the proposed interface, we will need
 to install dmenu ~~and htmlq~~.
 * dmenu https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ (MIT/X)
@@ -71,6 +126,9 @@ In our script, to store the given tags in a variable, we can do:
 ```
 tags=$(echo "" | dmenu -p "Enter comma-separated tags:")
 ```
+### install dmenu :
+https://askubuntu.com/questions/828450/how-to-install-dmenu
+
 ## ~~htmlq~~
 Htmlq is an HTML parser written in Go. It doesn't matter which parser we
 use, it seems that each language has its own.
@@ -105,31 +163,11 @@ For the moment this step is blocking. In case internet cuts while
 bookmarking a link, you will have to wait for the end of the curl
 attempt to move to the next field in the script :/ sorry!
 
-# Add a bookmark : 
-
-To add a link, I select the URL of the page with Ctrl + l, the copy and
-run add.sh with Super + i. 
-
-__If anyone knows how to retrieve the url of
-the current browser page without having to copy it, this would save two
-steps out of three.__
-
-In short : Ctrl + l, Ctrl + c, Super + i
-
-(or shorter : Ctrl + l + c, Super + i)
-
-Super + i because in my window manager configuration file located in
-~/.config/awesome/rc.lua, I have the following lines:
-```
-awful.key({modkey}, "i", function()
-awful.util.spawn_with_shell("add.sh") end, 
-{description = "Enregistre le lien copié dans signet.sh"}),
-```
-
 # Repository structure :
 
 * BOOKMARKS   → A textual database of bookmarks
-* add.sh      → A script to add a link to the database
+* edit_bookmarks_dmenu.sh → A script to add a link to the database using
+  dmenu
   * dmenu
   * ./signet.sh
 * bookmark.sh → The shell script itself
@@ -148,6 +186,10 @@ starred.sh  → curl from the github user api and format it in the same
 way as signet.sh without using jq
 https://api.github.com/users/[user]/starred
 
+# Other bookmark managers:
+- nb https://xwmx.github.io/nb/ (AGPL-3.0)
+- ??
+
 # Credits 
 * Junicode (OFL-1.1)
 https://psb1558.github.io/Junicode-font/