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This is the official Safari 5 extension for pinboard.in.

Current version: 2.78 (Mac and Windows) | 2.9 beta (Safari 5.1 only)

Features

Download

 Download Pinbar 2.78 »

 Download Pinbar 2.9 beta (Safari 5.1 only!) »

Quick Overview & Screenshot

Usage

You should be logged in at pinboard.in of course. The extension doesn’t access your personal information.

2.6 uses now the Pinboard-API for Number of unread links:
- You have to login to api.pinboard.in (with your usual pinboard username/password).
- Click Save to Keychain so the login only appears once.

How to install

• First enable Extensions (disabled by default in Safari 5.0): Enable “Develop menu” in the Advanced pane of Safari Preferences, then “Enable extensions” in the Develop menu.
• Download above & double click to install — or at extensions.apple.com)
• The toolbar can be disabled in the “View”-menu, the buttons can be added or removed by customizing the Safari toolbar.

Settings

Go to Safari Preferences and click on Extensions, choose Pinbar from the list of extensions.

Show context menu – Turn the context menu on or off (shown if you right-click on a page)

Show number of unread bookmarks – Shows a badge with the number of your unread bookmarks on the “Unread”-button in the toolbar.

Use https for Pinboard – Opens Pinboard pages via https.

Use reduced skin for toolbar – Displays the toolbar in an alternate style.

Reuse existing tabs if possible – Opens your Pinboard, Unread Bookmarks and Search always in the same tab/window if the page is already open.

Window Handling – choose if “Add to pinboard” opens on the same page, in a new tab, a new window or a popup. Same goes for the links to your pinboard, recent, unread etc.

Keyboard shortcuts – A modifier and a set of keys can be chosen. The keys are responsible for “My Pinboard”, “Add current page”, “Read later”, “Search bookmarks” and “Toggle Toolbar” (in that order).

If the Pinboard toolbar is shown, you can see the keyboard shortcuts immediately on the respective buttons.

Toolbar

You can show or hide the Pinboard Toolbar in the “View”-Menu of Safari.

Buttons – should be self-explanatory: Save current page to pinboard, read later .. and so on.

Search – Enter a term in the search field and press “Enter” to search in your bookmarks. The result is shown in the browser.

“?”-Button – Short help

Drag & Drop

You can also drag the favicon onto the toolbar to bookmark the current page.

Buttons

Right click on the Safari toolbar and choose “Customize Toolbar” to remove or add buttons.

Context Menu

Enable/Disable in the Settings

If you right-click on a page you get these two additional entries. When over a link, you can add/unread the link target.

Notes

This is my own work and is not affiliated with pinboard.in. If you have problems, wishes, suggestions- use the comment function below.

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Planned features

• Configurable keyboard shortcuts for Add to Pinboard, Read Later, View Pinboard — in current beta)
• Unread items (Simple button)
• Link to this page (aka Help)
• Search bookmarks (Result in the browser)
• Maybe and cool: Add to Pinboard via layer
• Context menu – and make it configurable
• Soon: Try to bypass “extensions can’t open popups” – I’ve got a plan..
• Okay, let’s be honest, no one reads all this here – integrate a short documentation (layer or a page)
• Drag & drop of URLs (from the address bar) onto the toolbar the bookmark button if this is possible
• Check if drag & drop on toolbar works. Works, only buttons don’t.
• Option to reuse existing tabs/windows for pinbar/unread
• Better Handling of esc when using search
• When right clicking on a link, bookmarking the target would be cool
• Red Badges look nice – maybe the number of unread items on a button
• Configure skin
• Improve context menu handling of links: In Google Reader the title is not correct. (should work in the current Beta)
• Check out new Safari 5.1 features (and bugs…)
• Use the API to search/add bookmarks/handle tags and find a good UI concept for this.

What’s new? (Changelog)

This is the official Safari 5 extension for pinboard.in. Current version: 2.78 (Mac and Windows) | 2.9 beta (Safari 5.1 only) Features Toolbar, Buttons, Context menu – can be separately...