Augmented bookmark functions
Thursday, 24. July 2008, 18:50:41
These macros offer four improvements in bookmark functionality:
Install by pasting into menus or KB/mouse customization dialog (some also provided as buttons; green links are button-installer tags)
- one-gesture creation of bookmarks routed to the top folder in your system
- addition of source-page URL to bookmarks made from links (information normally lost - enables you to return to source, effectively bookmarking that as well)
- use of the description field to attach notes, made convenient
- option of using selected text as bookmark name
Install by pasting into menus or KB/mouse customization dialog (some also provided as buttons; green links are button-installer tags)
Two basic functions:
- Quickmark (bookmark into top folder, no questions asked)
- Annotate (sets up optional quicksave & opens Details panel, ready for user to enter a comment)
Each comes in four versions: page or link, using default name or selection as name.
Remarks
- bookmarks are sent to top folder on your list, so put the desired target there. To make sure it stays there despite switches between alphabetic and My view, choose a name which makes it alphabetically first, such as "- Quicksave".
- if you'd rather send new bookmarks to the bottom of your list, outside of any folder, delete the "next item" command.
- where there is extra content, markers which show up in the bookmark menu or panel are put in front of the name to indicate it: A for the link-source address, C for comment - set off by a prominent divider.
- link bookmarks have sourcepage URL after name, like this: linkname || sourcepage URL. To return to sourcepage: rightclick bookmark, Properties, copy URL from name field. (Tip: the Properties dialog is stretchable.)
- comments show up in Opera tooltip which pops up when you hover a bookmark, and can be edited using Properties dialog, but aren't visible on panel or Manage lists (an Opera flaw: can't add the column). There are two ways to view them en masse: use the Export as HTML function in Manage Bookmarks to get an HTML listing which includes comments, or view the bookmark data file (Opera6.adr is the default) in Opera or a text program. (Incidentally, the HTML listing is a way to make Opera bookmarks usable in other browsers. The links work. There is also a version which exports only selected bookmarks - a good way to share sets of bookmarks, for example by email or posting on a website.)
- most versions use the Copy command, and will overwrite anything you have on the clipboard.
Setup
buttons: drag to toolbar.
KB/mouse: copy the action (everything after the =) and paste into the customization dialog Action field. (To get there, it's Tools/Prefs/Advanced/Shortcuts - then click the mouse or KB edit button.)
menu: copy the entire line and paste into appropriate section of a menu.ini file. Context (i.e. rightclick) menus make sense: Document Popup Menu for page versions, Link Popup Menu for link versions.
using author's name
For pages Quickmark Annotate
Item, "Quickmark" = Add to bookmarks & focus next widget & go to start & next item & OK
Item, "Annotate" = Add to bookmarks & go to line start & insert, "C¶ " & focus next widget & go to start & next item & focus next widget & focus next widget & click button
for links
Item, "Quickmark" = copy document address & Add link to bookmarks & go to line start & insert, "A‡ " & go to line end & insert, " || " & paste & focus next widget & go to start & next item & OK
Item, "Annotate" = copy document address & Add link to bookmarks & go to line start & insert, "AC¶ " & go to line end & insert, " || " & paste & focus next widget & go to start & next item & focus next widget & focus next widget & click button
using selected text as name
for pages
Item, "Quickmark (paste name)" = copy & add to bookmarks & paste & focus next widget & go to start & next item & OK
Item, "Annotate (paste name)" = copy & add to bookmarks & paste & go to line start & insert, "C¶ " & focus next widget & go to start & next item & focus next widget & focus next widget & click button
for links
Item, "Quickmark (paste name)" = copy & add link to bookmarks & paste & go to line start & insert, "A‡ " & go to line end & insert, " || " & copy document address & paste & focus next widget & go to start & next item & OK
Item, "Annotate (paste name)" = copy & add link to bookmarks & paste & go to line start & insert, "AC¶ " & go to line end & insert, " || " & copy document address & paste & focus next widget & go to start & next item & focus next widget & focus next widget & click button
WIDGETIZE
dapxin # 12. August 2008, 01:14
I hav ebeen waiting for this for ages. Complements ctrl+D like George Bush + Tony Blair...
thumbs up!
PS:
moirob # 27. August 2008, 14:21
bpm # 27. August 2008, 20:17
Buttons are a little more buttoned-up, so here they are with that done:
Quickmark (root folder) Annotate (root folder).
P.S. for future reference, here's the easiest way to change buttons - for example, to give them a different icon: instead of dragging the (sorry, I have to say this) button-installer pseudolink to a toolbar, bookmark it. That captures it in a form you can easily edit. (You then install the button by dragging from the bookmark to a toolbar.) You edit it by rightclicking the bookmark and selecting "edit properties" - the code for the button is sitting there in the the bookmark's URL field (with spaces and punctuation escaped - e.g., space is converted to %20; you just have to get used to that; to get a list of escape codes as a menu for easy refrence, see here). I hope that's clear; you could practise by trying to use the method to prune that "& next item" out of the button code from one of the buttons in the blog post.
moirob # 28. August 2008, 07:02
I had been dragging the "button-installer pseudolink" to where I wanted it in the Address Bar and to edit it dragging it to the URL-typing address bar, editing it there and trying to move it. No luck.
Thanks for the tip -and the already edited links. Much appreciated.