Bookmark Everything

Vimium-style hints for your whole desktop.

A keyboard-first launcher for Omarchy, inspired by Vimium. Bookmark the URLs, files, folders, and apps you reach for every day; each gets a two-letter code, auto-assigned or chosen by you. Type the code and it opens. No mouse, no menus, no arrow keys.

Install

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/decadentsavant/bookmark-everything.git --enable

Press Super+B. That's it. No config to edit, no keybinding to add: the plugin registers the key itself and puts a bookmark icon in your bar.

Prefer the launcher? Press Super + Space, search for Add Plugin, and paste https://github.com/decadentsavant/bookmark-everything.

Why

Your browser bookmarks only open web pages. The app menu only launches apps. The file manager only knows files. The things you open twenty times a day are scattered across all three, and every one of them wants you to type a name, scan a list, and click.

Bookmark Everything puts them in one place and does what Vimium does for links: every entry gets a two-letter code. Take the defaults (aa, ab, …) or set your own when you add or edit a bookmark: gh for GitHub, no for Obsidian, pr for your project folder. Codes never change under you, so your hands learn them in a day and the launcher is closed before you've finished thinking about it.

How it feels

• Super+B, g, h. GitHub opens. Two letters, no Enter.
• Your codes. Type any two letters into the Hint field when you add or edit a bookmark. Already taken? The two bookmarks swap.
• Forgot the code? Press / and type a few letters. Search covers names, tags, notes, URLs, paths, and app names, and is instant with a thousand entries.
• Adding is a paste. Press +, paste a URL or a path, done. The type is detected. Paths complete with Tab, like a shell, and a Places picker offers the folders and files you already use.
• Apps by the dozen. Press Ctrl+A, tick the ones you want, or all of them.
• Looks like it belongs. The launcher uses Omarchy's own theme, fonts, and colours, so it matches whatever theme you run.

It just works

• The hotkey is yours on install. Super+B unless something already uses it; then the first free key from a short list, and one notification telling you which. Hover the bar icon any time to see it.
• Never lost. The bookmark icon in the bar opens the launcher with a click and its Options with a right-click. Don't want the icon? Hide it from Options and the hotkey keeps working.
• Private by construction. One JSON file on your machine. No accounts, no cloud, no network access. Edit the file by hand if you like; the launcher reloads it.
• Leaves no mess. Nothing under ~/.config/hypr is written, ever. Disable or remove the plugin and the hotkey is gone with it.

Remove

omarchy plugin remove io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything

Your bookmarks are kept on purpose. To remove everything:

rm ~/.config/omarchy/bookmark-everything.json ~/.config/omarchy/bookmark-everything.json.bak-*
rm ~/.config/omarchy/bookmark-everything.settings.json   # exists only if you changed an option

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Reference

Everything below is for when you want more than the defaults.

Keys

Key	Hint mode
a…z twice	Open the bookmark with that code (set your own in the Hint field when adding or editing)
/ or Tab	Switch to Search mode
↑ ↓ then Enter	Move the highlight and open it
+ or Ctrl+N	Add a bookmark
Ctrl+V	Add the URL or path on the clipboard
Ctrl+A	Add installed applications in bulk
Ctrl+E	Edit the highlighted bookmark
Delete, Backspace, or Ctrl+D	Delete the highlighted bookmark, with confirmation (Backspace: Hint mode only)
Ctrl+I / Ctrl+O	Import / export
Ctrl+K or the gear at the bottom	Options: the hotkey and the bar icon
zz or ?	Open the built-in help
Esc	Clear a half-typed code, then close

In Search mode the letters go into the search box and Esc clears it, then returns to Hint mode. The other shortcuts work in both modes. With the mouse: click a row to open it, right-click or use the ⋯ on the highlighted row for Open / Edit / Delete, and use the + in the header to add.

Hotkey

The plugin registers its key in the running compositor with hyprctl eval, the same call Omarchy's own Lua config uses. It is put back after hyprctl reload and unregistered when the plugin is disabled or removed.

• Preferred key: Super+B. If taken, the first free one of Super+Alt+B, Super+Ctrl+Alt+B, Super+Alt+M, Super+Alt+U, Super+Alt+/.

• See it: hover the bar icon. Super+K (Omarchy's keybindings menu) lists it as "Bookmark Everything".

• Change it: right-click the bar icon, or the gear in the launcher. Type a combination such as SUPER + ALT + B and press Enter. A key something else uses is refused, with the reason. Keys are typed rather than captured because Hyprland acts on a bound combination before the launcher could see it.

• Turn it off: the Built-in hotkey toggle. The screen then shows the exact line to add to ~/.config/hypr/bindings.lua:

  o.bind("SUPER + B", "Bookmarks", "omarchy-shell shell toggle io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything")

  A binding of your own is detected too: if Super+B is already bound when the plugin loads, it is left alone rather than doubled.

• Take over a key in use: free it first in bindings.lua, e.g. hl.unbind("SUPER + B"), then choose it.

Your choice lives in ~/.config/omarchy/bookmark-everything.settings.json (hotkey, enabled), created the first time you change something.

Settings and storage

Bookmarks live in ~/.config/omarchy/bookmark-everything.json, a JSON array you can edit by hand. Missing ids or hint codes are filled in on reload.

{
  "id": "arch-wiki",
  "hint": "aa",
  "type": "url",
  "name": "Arch Wiki",
  "target": "https://wiki.archlinux.org",
  "tags": ["linux", "reference"],
  "notes": "Pacman and everything else"
}

type is url, file, folder, or app; for app, target is the desktop entry id (org.gnome.Nautilus). Paths may start with ~/. Import uses the same format: matching ids are replaced, new ones appended, colliding hints reassigned, and a timestamped backup written first.

To open in Search mode by default, set openMode on the plugin's entry in ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json:

"plugins": [
  { "id": "io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything", "openMode": "search" }
]

The first launch seeds a few starter bookmarks (home and Downloads folders, this project and Baton on GitHub, the author on X, one installed app), each tagged so it stays useful if you keep it. zz is always the built-in help.

Command line and menu

The plugin ships a small CLI, bkmke. Put it on your PATH:

ln -s ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything/bkmke ~/.local/bin/bkmke

bkmke                    toggle the launcher
bkmke search             open straight into Search mode
bkmke add .              bookmark the current folder
bkmke add <url-or-path>  open the Add dialog with the target filled in
bkmke clip               add whatever URL or path is on the clipboard
bkmke apps               pick installed applications to add
bkmke import <file>      merge a JSON export
bkmke export [file]      write all bookmarks to a JSON file
bkmke hotkey [combo|off] show the hotkey, set one ("SUPER + ALT + B"), or turn it off
bkmke icon on|off        show or hide the bookmark icon in the bar
bkmke options            open the options screen

Everything it does goes through the Omarchy shell's IPC, so you can script it directly:

omarchy-shell shell toggle io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything
omarchy-shell shell summon io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything '{"mode":"search"}'
omarchy-shell shell summon io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything '{"options":true}'
omarchy-shell shell call io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything addBookmark <target>
omarchy-shell shell call io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything addFromClipboard ''
omarchy-shell shell call io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything pickApplications ''
omarchy-shell shell call io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything importFrom <path>
omarchy-shell shell call io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything exportTo <path>
omarchy-shell shell call io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything hotkeyStatus ''
omarchy-shell shell call io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything setHotkey 'SUPER + ALT + B'
omarchy-shell shell call io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything setHotkeyEnabled false
omarchy-shell shell call io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything setIconInBar false

To reach the launcher from the Omarchy menu, add rows like these to ~/.config/omarchy/extensions/omarchy-menu.jsonc:

"bookmarks": {"icon":"󰃀","label":"Bookmarks"},
"bookmarks.open": {"icon":"󰃀","label":"Open","action":"omarchy-shell shell summon io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything '{}'"},
"bookmarks.search": {"icon":"","label":"Search","action":"omarchy-shell shell summon io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything '{\"mode\":\"search\"}'"},
"bookmarks.add": {"icon":"","label":"Add bookmark","action":"omarchy-shell shell call io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything addBookmark ''"},
"bookmarks.apps": {"icon":"󰀻","label":"Add applications","action":"omarchy-shell shell call io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything pickApplications ''"},
"bookmarks.clipboard": {"icon":"󰅌","label":"Add from clipboard","action":"omarchy-shell shell call io.github.decadentsavant.bookmark-everything addFromClipboard ''"}

Requirements and development

Omarchy 4.0 or newer. Everything the plugin calls ships with Omarchy: bash, coreutils, hyprctl, wl-paste, xdg-open, uwsm-app, and gtk-launch. zoxide is optional and only adds entries to the Places picker.

File	Purpose
manifest.json	Plugin manifest
BookmarkEverything.qml	The overlay: list, form, pickers, import/export, options
BookmarkModel.js	Model logic: parsing, hint assignment, fuzzy search, import merge
BookmarkBarWidget.qml	The bar icon
HotkeyService.qml	Singleton that registers the hotkey and keeps it in place
HotkeyModel.js	Hotkey logic: combo parsing, hyprctl binds parsing, fallback choice, Lua generation
qmldir	Declares the singleton for the overlay and the bar widget
places.sh	Gathers entries for the Places picker
help.html	The built-in help page (zz)
bkmke	Command-line wrapper around the shell IPC
test/*.test.js	Unit tests for the two models, runnable with node
dev/listing.sh, dev/listing/	Renders preview.webp, the marketplace card, from real screenshots

node test/model.test.js
node test/hotkey.test.js
omarchy plugin validate .

After editing plugin files, omarchy restart shell loads them. The models have no Qt dependencies, so their tests run anywhere. preview.webp is a 2000×1000 card rendered from dev/listing/listing.html with headless Chromium and ImageMagick; it embeds unedited screenshots from dev/listing/. Retake those and run ./dev/listing.sh when the UI changes.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.