Show HN: Gemini Bookmarks – Bookmark and tag responses in Gemini conversations

Bookmark, tag, and quickly find important responses in your Google Gemini conversations.

The extension is available for download at:

• Chrome: Web Store
• Firefox: Firefox Add-ons

• One-click Bookmarking: A bookmark icon appears on every Gemini response in a conversation.
• Tagging System: Add custom, comma-separated tags to organize your bookmarks.
• Side Panel UI: A dedicated panel lists all your bookmarks, sorted by their position in the conversation.
• Tag-Based Filtering: Quickly filter your bookmarks by clicking on tags in the panel.
• Smart Scrolling: Clicking a bookmark smoothly scrolls the page to its original context in a long chat.
• Keyboard shortcuts: When using the tag editor or one of the modals, you can hit Enter to save or Esc to cancel/close.
• Light & Dark Themes: The UI comes with a light and dark theme that can sync with your OS preference.
• Copy & View Actions: Quickly copy a bookmark's content to your clipboard or view the full text in a modal directly from the side panel.
• Conversation Management: On the options page, view all conversations with bookmarks and delete data for specific conversations you no longer need.

This section will explain how to get the project setup locally for development.

To work with this project you will need the following dependencies:

• Node.js v20+
  • https://nodejs.org/en/download
  • https://github.com/Schniz/fnm
  • https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm

This project is hosted at: https://github.com/nrednav/gemini-bookmarks

You can clone the project locally via HTTPS or SSH:

To install the project's dependencies:

Build the extension for a specific browser using:

This will output the extension files into a sub-directory named dist within the gemini-bookmarks directory.

This project uses Vitest for unit testing. To run the test suite:

This will execute all test files named with the .test.js pattern.

To install & run the extension manually, follow these steps:

1. Chrome

   • Run npm run build:chrome
   • Open your browser and navigate to: chrome://extensions
   • Enable Developer Mode
   • Click Load unpackaged
   • Select the dist/ directory of this project

2. Firefox

   • Run npm run build:firefox
   • Temporary
     • Open your browser and navigate to: about:debugging
     • Click This Firefox
     • Click Load Temporary Add-on...
     • Select the manifest.json file in the dist/ directory of this project
   • Persistent
     • Install the web-ext tool from Mozilla: Link
     • Test the extension by running web-ext run from within dist/ directory
       • Visit any conversation page within Google Gemini and hover over a model response to see the bookmark button
     • Sign the extension with web-ext sign
       • Follow the instructions on the same page linked above
       • You will need to run this command within the dist directory too
       • At the end, you should have a .xpi file generated within a sub-directory named web-ext-artifacts
     • In your Firefox browser
       • Navigate to about:addons via the address bar
       • Click the cogwheel button located at the top-right of the page
       • From the dropdown, select Install Add-on From File
       • Locate & select the .xpi file generated in a previous step
       • The extension should now be installed

This project uses Semantic Versioning. For a list of available versions, see the repository tag list.

If you encounter a bug or have a feature request, please open an issue on the GitHub repository.

Public contributions are welcome! If you would like to contribute, please fork the repository and create a pull request.

For a list of locales currently supported by the extension, please see public/_locales

Additional translations are most welcome! Please see docs/translations.md for more details.

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

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