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When comparing Buku vs GGather.com, the Slant community recommends Buku for most people. In the question“What is the best alternative to XMarks for syncing and organizing bookmarks across different browsers and devices?” Buku is ranked 3rd while GGather.com is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Buku is:
Importing means that you don't need to start from scratch to try Buku, and exporting means that you don't risk locking yourself in by doing so. Buku allows you to import and export bookmarks from and to a few important formats, including the recently added orgfile.
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Pros
Pro Import/export
Importing means that you don't need to start from scratch to try Buku, and exporting means that you don't risk locking yourself in by doing so. Buku allows you to import and export bookmarks from and to a few important formats, including the recently added orgfile.
Pro Extensive search options
Include, exclude, regex, tags, all or partial search terms.
Pro Fully compatible with Firefox bookmarks
Also supports Google Chrome, Chromium, Opera...
Pro Under active development, responsive team
The project is maintained actively with a rolling ToDo list and the devs encourage feedback and requests.
Pro Quality documentation
The Github page for Buku is useful for learning how to use it, and discovering features.
Pro Powerful
Advanced bookmark management is possible, with the right use of Buku's commands.
Pro Completion scripts
Handy completion scripts are available for bash, fish and zsh shells.
Pro Easy to use
Using Buku is easy once you memorize its simple syntax.
Pro GUI webserver available
Buku v3.8 has added a GUI based local webserver to access the bookmarks from the browser.
Pro Checks added for deletion options
Checks have been added for all deletion options in v3.8 to show the bookmarks to be deleted and confirm with the user before actual deletion.
Pro Sites are very easily added
Between the extensions, the context menu, and the fact you can just add the website to the front of any url it's super easy to add websites/items.
Pro Chrome extension that also works in Vivaldi
Pro The developer is very responsive to feedback
The developer is very responsive to feedback and is constantly updating and implementing new features.
Pro Attractive display and decent sorting features
Users can add tags to bookmarks, notes, rate based on 5 hearts (instead of stars) and display bookmarks as cards, panels, or as a list.
Cons
Con Assumes that you always know what you're doing
Buku doesn't show you what will happen before it performs a command that you input. For example: If you type the command to delete a bookmark, there's no way to see which bookmark is tied to the index that you input before the deletion happens. You need to know yourself by checking with another command. Couple this with the lack of a way to undo actions, and you could end up with a situation where you accidentally delete the wrong bookmark (or worse, range of bookmarks) and find out afterwards, without having any way to know which bookmark was deleted by this mistake (because bookmarks are identified by reassignable indices, not URLs or titles) and no way to undo the damage that was done.
This lack of safety means that you must know exactly what you're doing before using dangerous options like "-d", or you could cause irreversible damage.
Con CLI only backend, Bukuserver provides a self-hosted GUI
Con Currently no iOS app
It lacks an iOS app, but you can still use it on iOS devices by adding the website to the front of the URL you want to save.
Con No extensions, nor syncing capability
