Markster 2.8

Imports all the bookmarks stored in your browsers and allows you to keep a centralized database, without having to sync the browsers’ bookmarks managers

Markster is an easy to use macOS application that can import the bookmarks from various web browsers in order to help you create a centralized, well-structured links database.

Moreover, Markster can prove to be useful if you need more complex bookmarks management solutions, or if you want to have the complete list of URLs bookmarked in your browsers, without having to synchronize the internal bookmarks managers.

Create a complete bookmarks database by importing all the links stored in your web browsers

What’s more, the Markster app enables you to access your bookmarks directly from the app, by utilizing a global hotkey, the Dock menu, or a status bar menulet. All these options are quite handy if you are using multiple web browsers at the same time.

Markster offers you the possibility to add new bookmarks manually, but to get things started faster you have the option to import bookmarks from your Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox, or Opera browsers. Even though the app includes both import and export functionalities, these tools are to be used only for the setup and backup.

Within the Markster main window, you get to organize your bookmarks into multiple folders, to add separators, to apply different sorting methods, and so on. The utility can help you get rid of duplicate entries, integrates search capabilities, and can automatically generate reports.

Access your bookmark collection from a centralized location

Furthermore, Markster allows you to open directly any of the stored bookmarks, via the app’s main window, or by using a status bar menulet. This way, you do not have to remember in which browser you bookmarked a certain URL: everything will be easily accessible from a single place.

Bottom line, the Markster utility provides an alternative solution for dealing with your bookmarks collection: instead of syncing all your browsers together, you get to use a third party app and access the URLs in any app you like.

Compatibility: macOS 10.11 or later 64-bit

Web Site: http://sheepsystems.com/

What’s new in Markster 2.8

• The template of text placed on the system clipboard upon copying bookmarks is now configurable in Preferences > General.
• Some housekeeping operations, particularly some during application launching, are now performed on a secondary thread.This improves performance and responsiveness slightly, but mostly it was done in case there is more than one user who sees macOS sometimes hang in these operations, for reasons unknown. Restored reliability of Edit > Cut and then Paste which sometimes failed in the current version of macOS.
• The various change types shown in a document’s tab Reports > Sync Log are now better explained, in tool tips and in the Help Book sec. 4.4.
• If user tries to move the app’s single .bmco document file by clicking the title bar, a warning sheet indicating that this is not supported appears, and the move is aborted.(Previously, such a move would appear to succeed until the next launch.)
• Fixed a bug which sometimes caused a crash if two .bmco document windows were open while edits were made in the Preferences or Manage Browser Extensions window.
• Removed all functions and user interface supporting the now-defunct Delicious aka del.icio.us bookmarking service.
• Fixed a bug, introduced in version 2.5, which prevented proper automatic recovery from some corrupt database files.(Corrupt auxiliary files, -shm and -wal, files were not being removed).

Descriptions for Markster 2.5.7

Name: Markster
Version: 2.5.7
Release Date: 21 Mar 2018
Mac Platform: Intel
OS version:OS X 10.10 or later
Processor type(s) & speed: 64-bit processor

Includes: Pre-K’ed (TNT)

Web Site: http://www.sheepsystems.com/products/markster.html

Overview

Markster keeps your internet bookmarks in a central store. People use Markster because either:

• The internal bookmarks facilities (Bookmarks Bar, Bookmarks Menu, Favorites Bar, etc.) in their web browser(s) do not meet their feature expectations.
• They use more than one web browser, and prefer to keep all their bookmarks in a separate app, independent of the web browsers, instead of syncing the browsers’ internal bookmarks facilities together.

When Markster users want to visit a bookmark they have previously stored, or add a new bookmark, instead of reaching for the Bookmarks Bar or Bookmarks Menu in the browser, they bring up Markster’s Floating Menu. Markster provides three ways to do that:

• Global Keyboard Shortcut, for example Cmd-Shift-D.
• Dock Menu
• Status Menulet (right side of Menu Bar)

The keyboard shortcut and/or status menulet are enable/disabled in Markster’s preferences.

What’s New in Markster 2.5.7

• Exports to Safari now reliably push into iCloud again for all users of macOS 10.12.6.
• After exporting to Safari in some macOS user accounts, when iCloud:Safari syncing is off, no longer displays false warning that macOS indicated trouble while pushing your bookmarks export into iCloud.

Descriptions for Markster 2.5.5

Name: Markster
Version: 2.5.5
Release Date: 02 Mar 2018
Mac Platform: Intel
OS version:OS X 10.10 or later
Processor type(s) & speed: 64-bit processor

Includes: Pre-K’ed (TNT)

Web Site: http://www.sheepsystems.com/products/markster.html

Overview

Markster keeps your internet bookmarks in a central store. People use Markster because either:

• The internal bookmarks facilities (Bookmarks Bar, Bookmarks Menu, Favorites Bar, etc.) in their web browser(s) do not meet their feature expectations.
• They use more than one web browser, and prefer to keep all their bookmarks in a separate app, independent of the web browsers, instead of syncing the browsers’ internal bookmarks facilities together.

When Markster users want to visit a bookmark they have previously stored, or add a new bookmark, instead of reaching for the Bookmarks Bar or Bookmarks Menu in the browser, they bring up Markster’s Floating Menu. Markster provides three ways to do that:

• Global Keyboard Shortcut, for example Cmd-Shift-D.
• Dock Menu
• Status Menulet (right side of Menu Bar)

The keyboard shortcut and/or status menulet are enable/disabled in Markster’s preferences.

What’s New in Markster 2.5.5

• Fixed several misbehaviors which could occur when exporting to Safari when user’s Safari bookmarks have been upgraded by Apple to the new CloudKit protocol.
• Added two fixes for users of macOS 10.12, which seems to temporarily lose track of items after moving one. This can result in failure of the export with either Error 772031 Could not find a movee (if an item was moved into limbo after its original parent was removed) or Error 772032 Could not find movee’s new parent (if an item is moved into a moved folder). It is possible that this fix may also eliminate, in macOS 10.13, the occasional retrial which occurs under the hood after a few seconds, when an export to Safari initially fails.
• Fixed bug which could be seen particularly if new item(s) were added to the root, causing the export to fail with Error 772031 or 772032, indicating Could not find a movee or its new parent.
• Now succeeds when exporting to Safari a bookmark which was imported from Firefox as a Live Bookmark (RSS), if user’s Safari bookmarks have been upgraded by Apple to the new CloudKit protocol, instead of failing with Error 772030.
• Improved a performance bottleneck when exporting to Firefox.
• Fixed a bug which could cause a crash or failure to export to Safari if the exporting document did not have a Bookmarks Menu in its Settings > Structure.