About Bookmarks  
 

Bookmark files are like address books for the Internet -- they allow you to store, organize, describe and access URLs. Over time, friends, colleagues and associates may send you interesting URLs to explore, and you will collect a list of your own favorite sites. OmniWeb allows you to manage multiple bookmark files -- choose New Bookmarks File... from the File menu to create and open a new one.

Your personal bookmarks file is your primary set of bookmarks and is the one to which most commands in the Bookmarks menu apply. The first time you run OmniWeb, you will be given a sample personal bookmark file that you can add to or completely change to suit your needs.

To show your personal bookmarks:

  • Choose Show Bookmarks Drawer or Open Bookmarks Window from the Bookmarks menu or press ⌘B. (Which one of these commands appears depends on your preferences.)
  • Click the Bookmarks button on the browser window toolbar.

You can choose whether your personal bookmarks "prefer" to be opened in a window or in a drawer attached to the browser window in Bookmark Preferences. And you can temporarily reverse your preference by holding down the Option key when using the menu command or toolbar button.

When a disclosure triangle (▶) appears to the left of a listing in the bookmarks window or drawer, you can click on it to show more bookmarks. Click again to hide them.

Viewing Bookmarks

There are several ways to view the web sites listed in your bookmarks:

If your bookmarks are listed in the Bookmarks menu, you can open a bookmark by selecting it from the menu. (You can choose whether you bookmarks appear in the menu in Bookmark Preferences.)

To open a bookmark from a bookmarks window or drawer:

  • Double-click the bookmark to open it in the frontmost browser window.
  • Double-click the bookmark while holding the Command (⌘) key to open it in a new browser window.
  • Drag the bookmark from the bookmarks list into a browser window to open it in that window.

If a bookmark has a icon instead of a icon, opening it will cause a new bookmarks window to appear wih more links in it. You can change this in the Info window that appears when you choose Show Info from the Tools menu and select a bookmark.

Related Topics
Adding, Editing, and Organizing Bookmarks
Automatic Change Checking
Importing Bookmarks from Other Web Browsers
The Bookmark Info window

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