When comparing Webcull vs Buku, the Slant community recommends Buku for most people. In the question“What are the best ways to organize bookmarks?” Buku is ranked 1st while Webcull is ranked 37th. 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.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Imports bookmarks without losing the directory structure
Built-in browser bookmark managers use folders but lack lots of other functionality. Meanwhile, every other solution that improves on bookmark management lack folder structures all together opting just for tags. WebCull maintains all your bookmark folders exactly the way they were in your browser and also leverages tags. All while providing a richer experience than built in bookmark mangers.
Pro Searches with content of website
Every bookmarking tool out there lets you search for bookmarks. So how does WebCull innovate anything here? It allows you to search within the content of the sites of your bookmarks. This means WebCull is also sort of a search engine. Every other bookmark manager will let you search for tags, they will also search the website title and URL for keywords. But for someone who isn't meticulous at remembering tags, links go missing because more often than not, the URL and title doesn't contain the keyword you're looking for. WebCull fixes this problem by providing keywords sourced straight from the website URL as a baseline for your search results. So now when you search your bookmarks the results that come up are far superior without needing to up your tagging game.
Pro Works from every browser and device
No need to download a new application or log anyone out of anything to access your bookmarks from anywhere. WebCull works from the... you got it, web! So any web browser you got access to will load your bookmarks without a problem. You'll also never need to log anyone out since it allows multiple side-by-side account sessions.
Pro Improved user interface and shortcuts
The WebCull user interface is like no others, there is almost no way to describe it through words. You have to check it out for yourself or look at the video on the WebCull homepage.
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.
Cons
Con Web two point ow
Cause I don't like all these webby two point 0 doohickies clogging up all the innertubes.
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.