GMarkIt Google Bookmarklet

This bookmarklet is a slightly modified version of Lifehacker's GMailThis bookmarklet. I tweaked the code by renaming some of the variables and re-writing the final output. The code is not my own it has only been tweaked slightly to work with Google Bookmarks rather than Google Mail.

After I mentioned Google Bookmarks yesterday I sat down and started bookmarking a handful of sites to be part of today's "To Do" list. While using the bookmarklet, made available by Google, I started to get annoyed by the need to constantly tab around to enter data. I was already familiar with Lifehackers GMailThis bookmarklet but because I'm not interested in bookmarking to my GMail account it didn't really appeal to me - except for part of it's "supercharged" feature. Ultimately I decided to tweak the GMailThis bookmark to fit my own needs.

With GMailThis you can use the address bar kind of like a command line. If you give GMailThis a keyword (something from Firefox) like 'gmt' you could type the following to send mail " gmt My Subject | notes on the e-mail | recipient's email " and you've just sent a copy of your page off to a friend. Alternately you can e-mail yourself a bookmark for later inspection. For more on GMailThis check out the Lifehacker post on it.

As I said - I wasn't interested in using GMail. I wanted the same functionality but with Google Bookmarks. After playing around with the Lifehacker code for quite awhile I'm happy to share the GMarkIt bookmarklet. It basically works exactly like the GMailThis plugin with a few additions.

GMark This

First off you'll notice that the standard bookmarklet setup applies. Just click the "GmarkIt" Bookmarklet and a window will open with the page title and URL filled in. If you want to use it in the address bar, like with GMailThis above, you can do the following.

First add a keyword, I use 'gm,' to the GMarkIt bookmarklet (you can learn about keywords at this Lifehacker post). The syntax is as follows: " gm alternate title | labels | notes. " Because you probably won't be changing the URL it's captured automatically and doesn't need to be edited.

Typing "gm Read Tonight | Bookmarklets, Google, | This is a Bookmarklet I may want to add to firefox" would create a bookmark in your Google Bookmarks account with the above keywords and a short description.

Pretty straight forward I hope...

Installation

1. Firefox Users: Drag the GMarkIt Bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar or bookmarks folder.
2. IE Users: Just bookmark the GMarkIt link and add it to your "links" folder
3. To take advantage of the keywords option simply right click the bookmark and add your chosen keyword.

Release Notes

1. This bookmark is heavily - I mean HEAVILY - based on Lifehacker's GMailThis bookmarklet
2. It appears to work fine in Firefox and IE but I haven't tested other browsers
3. Current release is version 0.1

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