Tabs Outliner import discards notes
trespda opened this issue · comments
I try this as a Tabs Outliner replacement mostly. So far it has better integration and documentation.
Having I imported a fairly big and disorganized TO tree, it seems like manual notes added there did not pass to the BT notes column. That makes a shift difficult.
I noticed the same thing when testing the BrainTool (BT) converter utility on a Tabs Outliner (TO) export a while back 😞
@trespda, can you document what version of Chrome + TO + BrainTool + the converter you used, ie: online?
As for me, I am on Chrome 121 + BT 0.9.9 + TO 1.4.141 and today in TO I noticed (once again) that I am unable restore (double-click) ANY bookmark from a "Saved Window" node (<li id="savedwin" class="nodeTitleAndSubnodesContainer savedwinNTASC NTASC-windowFrame currentNode">
in the TO HTML code) that consists of 262 nodes 😱 (the issue seems inconsistent and I do not know the cause). I fear I will soon lose the ability to access any of this data!
@tconfrey, Any way you can bump up the priority on this to get the converter to support the importing of TO Notes? 🙏 📿 TO notes node export from TO is vital as TO is more than just a collection of bookmarks!
FWIW, it seems TO Notes nodes have a DOM structure that consist of a child <span class="tab_comment">
tag nested under the <span class="node_text savedtab_text" draggable="true">
tag that saves the page title (which itself is nested under an <a class="nodeTitleContainer savedtabNTC NTC-tabFrame nosubnodes currentNode" ... >
anchor tag).
Here is a complete <li>
savedtabundefined
node example excerpt below (ℹ️ N.B, base64 data redacted for privacy + formatted/indented for better readability)
<li id="savedtabundefined" class="nodeTitleAndSubnodesContainer savedtabNTASC NTASC-tabFrame currentNode">
<a class="nodeTitleContainer savedtabNTC NTC-tabFrame nosubnodes currentNode" href="chrome-extension://noogafoofpebimajpfpamcfhoaifemoa/suspended.html#ttl=Foo&pos=0&uri=https://foo.bar/baz" tabindex="1">
<img class="node_favicon savedtab_favicon" data-icon-src-deffered-load="data:image/png;base64,redacted" src="data:image/png;base64,redacted" />
<span class="node_text savedtab_text" draggable="true">
<span class="tab_comment">#Foo comment</span>
Foo page name
</span>
</a>
</li>
In the example above #Foo comment
is a comment I added and want to import (N.B, the hashtag #
was added by me- the user, and just a way for me to more easily restrict Chrome "Find..." searches to just the TO notes/comments).
Perhaps these can be mapped to BT tags/notes? (not sure what the exact terminology or syntax/structure BT uses when it generates its equivalent Org-mode file... although I did find this screenshot in the docs):
Hope this helps to implement the parsing of above such nodes in https://github.com/tconfrey/BrainTool/blob/master/utilities/converters.js (perhaps some sort of XPath expression could be used to extract out the nested <span>
node's value?)
Please let me know if you need any additional information!
Hi @bkmdev and @trespda
I tweaked the TabsOutliner import and it shoudl now handle copying over notes added to tab nodes. Note that I import from the exported tree file which is in JSON format I don't look at the TO dom structure.
Make sure you reload BT to get the changes and LMK if you continue to see errors.