You need to have Go already installed on your computer. If you don't have it, follow these instructions for your distribution. You can also compile it from source. If you already have it, move to the next paragraph.
Installing Drawer itself is pretty easy. Simply run:
go get -u github.com/endi1/drawer
After it finishes running, to install run:
go install github.com/endi1/drawer
After installing drawer, you can then run:
drawer
in your home directory or wherever you want your bookmarks file to be. After that, drawer will automatically create a new bookmarks file (by default it will be ".mydrawer"). After the file is created you will be asked if you want to add a new bookmark. If the answer is no, just press "n" and then "Enter". Otherwise press "Enter".
From there follow the instructions to add your first bookmark to drawer. The URL of your new bookmark needs to start with the protocol (either http:// or https://).
To view all your bookmarks, run:
drawer
again in the same directory where the bookmarks file is (by default it must be called ".drawer", otherwise you need to use the -f flag to specify the name of the file).
To add a new bookmark run:
drawer -a
in the same directory where your bookmarks file is.
You will then be prompted with these steps:
-
Add a new bookmark (Y/n)?
Pretty self-explanatory. "n" for no and "y" or empty for yes.
-
Add a link:
The bookmark URL. Needs to start with the protocol (https:// or http://)
-
Add a title for that link:
The title for that bookmark. Can be empty
-
Add a comment:
In case you want to add a comment for that bookmark you can do so here. Otherwise leave empty.
-
Add a tag (empty to stop):
In case you want to add tags to separate bookmarks in different categories so that they can be searched easier, you can do so here. As long as you add a tag it will keep asking you for one (you can add more than one tag). If you are done adding tags, just press "Enter" without writing anything.
$ drawer -a
file:.mydrawer
> Add a new bookmark (Y/n)? y
> Add a link: https://google.com
> Add a title for that link: Google
> Add a comment: This is a search engine
> Add a tag (empty to stop): search engine
> Add a tag (empty to stop):
Now typing drawer in the terminal will yield:
file:.mydrawer
0. Google: https://google.com
// This is a search engine
#search engine
To display all your saved bookmarks you can run just drawer and it
will list all the bookmarks in the drawer file.
If you want to display only one bookmark of which you know the ID. You
can use the -i flag. From the previous example:
$ drawer -i 0
file:.mydrawer
0. Google: https://google.com
// This is a search engine
#search engine
To display bookmarks that have a certain tag, you can use the -t
flag. From the previous example:
$ drawer -t search engine
file:.mydrawer
0. Google: https://google.com
// This is a search engine
#search engine