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Browser extension to browse bookmarks and create notes in QOwnNotes

QOwnNotes Web Companion browser extension

Changelog | Releases | Chrome Web Store | Firefox Add-ons page | QOwnNotes Webpage

Chrome / Firefox browser extension to interact with the note taking desktop application QOwnNotes for managing bookmarks and act as a web-clipper.

QOwnNotes is the open source (GPL) plain-text file markdown note taking application for GNU/Linux, macOS and Windows, that (optionally) works together with the notes application of ownCloud or Nextcloud.

The extension is currently tested for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

Features

• managing bookmarks with QOwnNotes notes
  • you can browse your QOwnNotes bookmarks
  • you can search for bookmarks and filter them by tag
  • you can add new bookmarks from the current tab or all tabs
  • you can add open all bookmarks in tabs
  • you can import your browser bookmarks to QOwnNotes
  • for more information about the bookmarks feature please visit QOwnNotes Web Companion browser extension
• creating a new note (only text) from the current selection by right-clicking it
  • this is scriptable in QOwnNotes
• creating a new note from the content of the current webpage by right-clicking on the page
  • the html will be converted to markdown and images of the page will be downloaded (might take a while)
  • this is scriptable in QOwnNotes
• creating a new note with a screenshot of the visible part of the current webpage by right-clicking on the page
• you can change the server socket port in the extension Option page

Screenshot

Installation

Download the latest release from Releases, visit chrome://extensions/ (for Chrome) and drop the extension file into your browser.

You can also use the Chrome Web Store or the Firefox Add-ons page to install the extension.

To use this extension QOwnNotes needs to be running.

Shortcuts

Chrome

• use Ctrl + B to open the bookmarks popup
  • access key A to add a new bookmarks (for example press Alt + A in Chrome)
  • access key S to search for bookmarks
  • access key O to open all visible bookmarks
  • access key T to jump to the tag selector

Firefox

• use Ctrl + Shift + B to open the bookmarks popup

Permissions

• the extension uses the tabs permission that may be interpreted as permission to Read your browsing history to be able to store bookmarks for all open tabs in a window with a single click

Development

npm install

npm run dev chrome
npm run dev firefox

Building packages

./build.sh