Bookmarks

[aimxhaisse]

This is a feature idea: add the ability to bookmark external links (that aren't pulled by feeds), so that they appear on the starred page, this would consist of:

• add a page with a form to submit a new external link,
• fetch metadata from this link (title?) / or add extra-fields for the title in the submit form, ...
• ideally, the form could be called via a /GET request, so it could be triggered from a special "bookmark" button in the browser, like "bookmark this page".

I think this implies some model changes (as far as I understand, in the current models, a 'story' is necessary linked to a 'feed', which wouldn't be true anymore).

I understand that the added value of your Stringer is to keep things very simple, so maybe this feature is out of scope, anyway if several people are interested, I can help implementing this.

[swanson]

Hey, thanks for posting your idea :)

As you mentioned, I think this falls outside the scope of this project's goal: to be a simple, no frills RSS reader. We've had a bit of discussion on this topic before: #40. You might have a look at the linked extension: https://github.com/bitboxer/chrome-stringer-socialize as a way to get your starred stories from Stringer into an existing bookmarking application.

While this feature will not be added to the master repo, feel free to hack on it in your own fork if you'd like to add the feature, I think the approach you've outlined seems reasonable :)