If you use a lot of bookmarklets, you might want to check out “Bookmarklet Combiner“, a free web service that will consolidate as many bookmarklets as you like into one, and then either display them in a popup window or alternately run the list of bookmarklets in batch.
What can you do with a single, consolidated bookmarklet that you cannot do by simply placing your bookmarklets in a folder? For one thing, you can easily share or publish collections of bookmarklets. Moreover, the popup window of bookmarklets (see top right screenshot) can be set to be displayed on various parts of the screen. It is also a simply unique way to go about organizing (and using) your bookmarklets.
If you are interested in some cool, value added bookmarklets: check out my list of “Twelve must have bookmarklets“. A combined version of all of these can be found here (drag and drop to your browser toolbar). See screenshot to the right for a preview.
Some notes on this service:
- How to create a consolidated bookmarklet: simply type in the name and paste in the javascript code on the bookmarklet combiner site. Choose from a number of options, such as whether the end result should run them all in batch or display in a popup. (See top left screenshot).
- Editing a consolidated bookmarklet: unfortunately, there does not seem to be an option to load it back up again once a consolidated bookmarklet is created. You’ll have to re-do the whole thing.
- Creating a consolidated bookmarklet for “normal” URLs: is possible, should you want to do that for whatever reason.
The verdict: a very interesting and unique service. You could say that there is a bit of a question mark over the utility that it provides, but that depends somewhat on the user and what you might want to use it for.
One thing I would wish for the ability to re-load a bookmarklet in order to change or edit it.
Visit the Bookmarklet Combiner page.
A bookmarklet bookmarklet, that’s pretty cool! I think I will use this to save some space on my bookmarks toolbar.
Off topic: what happened to Diablo’s Indie Game Picks? I liked part1 but there never was a follow-up.
@ Toni: Diablo was busy in the past few months getting his masters, putting together his thesis project etc. He will hopefully have more time for game picks going forward.
At some point you can just create a multiple bookmarklet by just placing them one after the other separated by “;”, though it´s always better and more practical a nice-handy UI, specially for people not familiar with javascript.
It would be very useful an option to consolidate bookmarklets that require user input (like search boxes) into one text box.
PD: I´ve always wondered if it´s to create “bookmark-bookmarklet” a bookmark that when it loads runs a specified bookmarklet on it.
This seems a lot like Shareaholic’s functionality only it allows you to work with any bookmarklet rather than it’s selected services. Luckily for me I mostly use the services that Shareaholic supports.
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Have you come across Marklets.com ( http://marklets.com/Default.aspx ) they list hundreds of bookmarklets that you can grab, or, alternatively, you can just grab the Marklets.com bookmarklet itself ( http://marklets.com/Marklets.com.aspx ) which when clicked opens a small text box through which you can search for a bookmarklet to perform whatever function you require. Admittedly it is not as fast as clicking on a dedicated bookmarklet straight away but it makes up for that in sheer functionality. For instance, enter “youtube” and you are offered 22 options including Nab It! and other downloaders, WatchLater, Youtube Fullscreen, Youtube URL simplifyer etc. Entering something more specific such as “bugme” will give you BugMeNot.
Having just come across this myself it is my new favourite toy.
@ Roger: wow, marklets is such a great website. Thanks man!
@ Samer, you know it’s just one of those things that you’ve got to share or it’s not so much fun!
best tip for bookmarklet that i found