Introduction

URL Union is a desktop software application for storing and publishing URLs (aka bookmarks).

URL Union was written with the following design goals in mind.

1. One set of bookmarks for all browsers and all devices. URL Union can publish your URLs in a variety of convenient HTML formats that allow you to view and use your URLs from any Web browser, including those found on an iPad, iPhone or other mobile device.

2. Storing URLs in HTML. It just seems perverse to me to store URLs in a proprietary, binary format, since HTML is the native, natural language for such links. URL Union stores its bookmarks in an HTML file that can be easily read by any text editor, and any Web browser.

3. Supporting both tags and folders. It seems that many bookmark managers allow you to assign multiple, single-level tags to each URL. Other bookmark managers allow you to organize your URLs into nested folders, but typically allow each URL to appear in only one folder. URL Union allows you to assign multiple tags to each URL, and each tag can be nested up to 10 levels deep.

4. Intelligent import and merge capabilities. Many bookmark managers allow you to add additional bookmarks to a central file via an import function, but simply add the new bookmarks to your existing list. URL Union will allow only one record for each unique URL, and will intelligently merge duplicates when they are added via an import.

5. Import from multiple sources. URL Union supports import capabilities for multiple file formats, essentially allowing users to import their URLs from most existing sources in which they might be stored.

6. Export. URL Union can easily publish your URLs in the traditional Netscape bookmarks format, which can be imported by almost any Web browser or other URL manager.

Documentation

User documentation is available at docs/index.md.

Executables

Executable software may be downloaded at PowerSurgePub.com.

Source

Source code for URL Union is available at

https://github.com/hbowie/urlunion

Source code for JExcelAPI is available at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jexcelapi

Rights

URL Union

Copyright 2009 - 2014 by Herb Bowie

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

JExcelAPI

Copyright 2002 Andrew Khan

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/