Abookmark - advanced bookmark manager

It's impressive, but it's the most complex GUI I have ever laid my eyes on, even as a power user. The most comparable thing is the program Blender - it took me good time to learn Blender, but it is widely documented, and has imagal, textual and videal demonstrations. I've also used the program AB Commander which is comparable to this in terms of icon & button design. The extension Bookmark Manager Plus is also comparable on those terms. But this is confusing. Horrifically so. I cannot tell which button alters my bookmarks, and which alters metadata about them, if this can even do the former. I checked the docs, they tell me everything, except how to use the damn thing. Consider rewriting, so it's not around abstract concepts, but around case uses. There is one video of you clicking through the program and showing various screens, explaining nothing. I can do that myself, no one else's time is needed. What's the first thing the user might want to do when he opens this? What operations are there? Why does a tag exist by default which contains nothing at all? When I click the extension button what am I creating? I don't want you to answer these. I want the user onboarding to be made to exist. The extension "Bookmarks Commander" for example has one, it has an explanatory usage video, it has instructions on basic operations, etc.

I echo the sentiments of other users when I say that the functionality is impressive, but practically impossible to use. There HAS to be better documentation and user guidance. The greatest software in the world isn't worth anything if no one knows how to use it. Very cool extension, I hope you add better documentation!

Drag n Drop is possible, which is great, but I searched 10(!) minutes now for a simple button to just create a folder. None found, extension deleted. Sorry.

Looks very powerful, but extremely difficult to understand and use. Lots of use of unexplained abbreviations and awkward wording. Somebody needs to go back to school for UI design theory.

This extension allows for bulk editing Bookmarks using powerful Find & Replace functionality. Case matching, whole word selection and REGEX are all supported. It is for this reason, and ONLY this reason, that I keep the extension installed. To my knowledge, this functionality is unique - not available in ANY other solution, and I have tried literally hundreds of Bookmark Managers and other tools. If someone knows of an alternative - please, do tell. I say that because... This extension has the very worst User Interface of any consumer facing product I have ever seen, and I spent 25 years managing, designing, testing and reviewing applications in a professional capacity. I even encountered a legacy system in place since the DOS years - poorly written in the first place, patched and extended time and again - that provided a friendlier experience. Also, as others have mentioned, documentation is nonexistent - this app is extremely powerful, but it's not for the technically challenged, nor the faint of heart. Nonetheless, there is that bulk editing thing... To help others hunting this functionality, I will present the required steps as concisely as I can: 1. Install the extension & pin it to the menu bar. 2. Right click the icon, and choose "Open Main App." 3. Open settings by clicking the standard "Gear" icon at the top right & selecting "Options..." 4. Switch to the "Lab*" tab at the top of the "Options" screen. 5. Activate the "Data text editor" option, then click the "Save" button in the lower right corner. 6. Click anywhere outside the "Options" screen to close it, then... 7. Click again, somewhere, anywhere, to close the pop-up still persisting from the click on the "Gear" icon. 8. You are now ready for bulk-edit - make sure you are in "Bookmark Mode" by selecting the first icon at the top left. 9. Choose the category to edit from the left hand panel - "Desktop," "Other," or "Mobile Bookmarks." 10. You should see a more or less standard view of your bookmarks in the right panel, with checkboxes for selecting. 11. Select the items to edit ("range" selection is available - click the 1st bookmark, hold "Shift" & select the last.) 12. RIGHT click on any SELECTED bookmark and a TOTALLY undecipherable popup will appear. 13. Click on the "DV" box toward the bottom of the ABSOLUTELY incoherent popup to switch to "Data View." 14. Select "Plain" from the tabs at the top - you should get a plain text editor containing your selected bookmark data. 15. Invoke "Find & Replace" - Control-F on Windows - this is the sole reason I keep this extension installed. 16. Of course, you can also manually edit anything you like while in the text editor. 17. After editing, scroll to the very bottom and click the "Save Data" button to... Save your changes. 18. Click the "Close" button to exit the text editor - mission accomplished. That's all there is to it. That's only ONE of the many, many functions packed into this extension - good luck deciphering the others.

Extension is extremely powerful but the UI is extremely lacking.