QOwnNotes Web Companion browser extension

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 web page 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

lumenpink/web-companion