Vscode-bookmarks: Ability to export bookmarks

[kevinpeno]

Most of the time when I'm using this extension I am using it to mark points of interest during research. A task that I've had to perform lately is looking for hard coded text in various applications that needs to be moved to our CMS. This extension works great for that with one exception:

Generally after I have performed my research I need to document it. Using this extension I need to go to each bookmark and manually copy the file:line:column link. An export all option would greatly increase the speed at which I can do this. An option for markdown/wiki export would exponentially increase my efficiency. In addition, if the markdown export included the label and notes (#76) that'd be exceptional.

[alefragnani]

Hi @kevinpeno ,

You can choose to store the bookmarks inside the folder that you opened in VSCode. You just have to set bookmarks.saveBookmarksInProject to true in Workspace Settings, for the folders that you want this behavior, or in User Settings if you _always_ want this behavior. The bookmarks are saved in JSON format in .vscode\bookmarks.json. Be aware that this setting does not work (yet) when using multi-folders or Worspaces, and all bookmarks are saved only in VSCode internals.

Do you still thinks an export command is necessary?

Hope this helps

[kevinpeno]

I mean, I could write a separate tool that generates markdown from that (I assume) but, given the use case above I think a markdown export for documentation would be a nice to have. Also, that setting isn't very apparent to the user and is required to be changed for every workspace, while an export functionality within the bookmark pane would be apparent and work regardless of that setting.

[alefragnani]

Well, that's the only way (today) to have _easy access_ to the bookmarks. Sure, it's not a _real_ export feature.

An Export to ... command could be an interesting _additional_ feature, really helpful for those that use Bookmarks as a documentation tool. I remember this somehow similar issue, which asked to change how bookmarks that stored because of a particular scenario. In that case, I thought it was #out-of-scope.

Right now, I'm on vacation, and I'm focused on other projects/features, so I can't promise you that this feature could be released anytime soon. If you are really interested, you could contribute with a Pull Request, or support the extension/patronize the feature.

Hope this helps

[thatcashcow]

bookmarks.saveBookmarksInProject feature is not working for me. Can you please check? Also can you make this default and enable it separately for each workspace? Thanks!

[alefragnani]

@thatcashcow Based on your request (save separately for each workspace), I guess you _noted_ the error while using a workspace, right? This setting is not supported, yet. It’s being tracked in #193 .

Hope this helps

[GitHunter0]

An Export to ... command could be an interesting _additional_ feature, really helpful for those that use Bookmarks as a documentation tool

Hey @alefragnani , indeed it would be a useful feature.

Another related truly handy feature: Automatically add bookmarks to lines that have some particular pattern of characters.
Example: In python scripts, every line started with #%% represents a new code section. So, if you can automatically add bookmarks to each one, you immediately have all your code sections documented and listed as bookmarks, something still not implemented but highly desired.
See somewhat related feature request: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter/issues/1348

Thank you

[alefragnani]

Hi @GitHunter0 ,

This _auto-detect bookmark_ request has already been made a few times, starting with #128, #194, #241 and #252, but as I commented there, this is not the idea of the extension. For that, there are other extension that _load the file content and create bookmarks dynamically_.

What the extension provides is the multi-cursor support (#77), which means that you can create bookmarks for each position your cursor is. So, you just have to select every line started with #%% (using Cmd + D or Cmd + Shift + L) and run the Bookmarks: Toggle command.

Hope this helps

[GitHunter0]

Hey @alefragnani , for sure helped a lot! I had tried to do that with "Comment Anchors" but it did not accept to map #%%, however with "Todo Tree" now I managed to get exactly what I wanted. Thanks man