Womcat Bookmarks organizes Web bookmarks in nested folders.
Womcat Bookmarks is a software project designed to maintain Web bookmarks in a set of hierarchical folders. Its main feature is the ability to generate an output of the bookmarks as an HTML page and as an RSS 2.0 file, which can be placed on a Web site. The RSS file maps folder names into the "category" element.
In addition, Womcat Bookmarks can download other RSS files and treat them as categorized bookmarks to create a local database of Web bookmarks that can be easily browsed by subject. The software also supports RSS discovery by allowing users to post RSS file URLs as new items, as well as functioning as a basic RSS feed reader.
Another unique feature of Womcat Bookmarks is its Weak Subscriptions feature, which works in a similar way to a personalized version of BlogDex. The feature allows users to subscribe to RSS feeds, which may or may not be generated by Womcat Bookmarks.
Womcat Bookmarks is subject-oriented and requires that every recommendation be contained within a subject, which is then separated by forward slashes in the "category" element. Subjects can also be nested within each other to ensure that categories are well-organized, despite varying user hierarchies.
However, it cannot be expected that different users will have equivalent or even consistent hierarchies, so there is a focus on ensuring that the subject titles are unambiguous in a global context without any dependence on position in a user's hierarchy. This is done to facilitate merging of Womcat Bookmarks from different users so they can be usefully browsed by subject.
The software is considered to be an accumulating collection of bookmarks and does not delete items unless they become irrelevant or cease to exist, which can be problematic when reading RSS files that may or may not be accumulative or transient in intent.
To address this issue, the software proposes to add an extension element to specify the period that the file covers and optionally link to a different RSS file that covers that period.
Overall, Womcat Bookmarks is useful software for maintaining web bookmarks and generating HTML pages and RSS files. The latest version includes improved user interface, updates to libraries and various bug fixes.
In addition, Womcat Bookmarks can download other RSS files and treat them as categorized bookmarks to create a local database of Web bookmarks that can be easily browsed by subject. The software also supports RSS discovery by allowing users to post RSS file URLs as new items, as well as functioning as a basic RSS feed reader.
Another unique feature of Womcat Bookmarks is its Weak Subscriptions feature, which works in a similar way to a personalized version of BlogDex. The feature allows users to subscribe to RSS feeds, which may or may not be generated by Womcat Bookmarks.
Womcat Bookmarks is subject-oriented and requires that every recommendation be contained within a subject, which is then separated by forward slashes in the "category" element. Subjects can also be nested within each other to ensure that categories are well-organized, despite varying user hierarchies.
However, it cannot be expected that different users will have equivalent or even consistent hierarchies, so there is a focus on ensuring that the subject titles are unambiguous in a global context without any dependence on position in a user's hierarchy. This is done to facilitate merging of Womcat Bookmarks from different users so they can be usefully browsed by subject.
The software is considered to be an accumulating collection of bookmarks and does not delete items unless they become irrelevant or cease to exist, which can be problematic when reading RSS files that may or may not be accumulative or transient in intent.
To address this issue, the software proposes to add an extension element to specify the period that the file covers and optionally link to a different RSS file that covers that period.
Overall, Womcat Bookmarks is useful software for maintaining web bookmarks and generating HTML pages and RSS files. The latest version includes improved user interface, updates to libraries and various bug fixes.
What's New
Version 2.7: N/A