Shiori "user report"

[mfioretti]

Greetings,

again, I am not sure if this is the best way to share what follows, and apologize in advance if it is not, but could not find a better one.

I am trying to migrate from SemanticScuttle (SC) to something better, and above all better maintained. I have over 27K bookmarks to migrate. Shiori seems very promising, so I did this:

• export all bookmarks from SC Mysql database to custom CSV file
• write and run shell script that reads that file and runs "shiori add URL -t TAGS for each bookmark

The script ran tonight. I have tested shiori for a few hours. Performance is not really great but surely good and acceptable, given the number of bookmarks to handle. Apart from that, here are some thoughts and notes:

1. when I click on "existing tags" I only get "timeout of 5000ms exceeded". Not surprising, given the number of bookmarks, but limiting. Any way to extend that timeout? without recompiling from source, I mean
2. Having "for free" a cached copy of all bookmarks is wonderful. But I do second the already made request to please include images in those cached copies
3. See the feature requests I just made about public/ private bookmarks, and unique URLs for search results (the crucial one IMHO is the first, the other is only needed when the first is present)
4. Other features it would be nice to have:

• some short documentation/examples about the db schema, and specifically examples of how to read/write/edit URLs directly in the sqlite file, with sqlite queries, instead of using only "shiori add", or "shiori print". Reasons: much faster, much more accurate imports (the bookmarks I collected in ten years all look inserted yesterday in shiori, AND above all I could not import with "shiori add" the excerpts I had for each of them), possibility to do faster, more detailed bulk edits and queries for using the bookmarks outside shiori. For example, it seems I cannot change from command line or Web ui a mispelled tag e.g. lynux to linux, in all the bookmarks that have it.
• select some text in the page to bookmark, and have the bookmarklet use THAT as excerpt

Any feedback is welcome, and thanks again for this great program