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Organizing Safari Bookmarks

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Since I've upgraded to Leopard, I've eventually migrated from Firefox, which is rich of ad-ons, to Safari, which has been proved to render the page much faster.

In addition to that, I also like Safari Bookmark that is easy to create, manage and organize.

Adding Bookmark Items

Adding bookmark items comes in handy when you're using Safari. Maybe you've been wondering what is the function of the globe next to the url address, and now you will have the answer : it's for dragging the url into bookmark bar and hence in return, you will have new bookmark item. It's easy right?

Trick :
If you happen to invoke your Safari Bookmarks Preferences Pane, you will see the blue globe as the icon. If you want, you can change this icon which can be easily found with these simple steps :

  1. Applications ▸ Safari
  2. Contextual Menu ▸ Show Package Contents
  3. Contents ▸ Resources
  4. BookmarkPreferences.tiff

Organizing Bookmark Items

Eventually, your bookmarks bar will be flooded will so many references to useful or barely your favorite web pages. In this case, organizing, categorizing or, can be said, tagging bookmarks comes for rescue.

To create a new bookmark folder :

  1. Call Contextual Menu of bookmarks bar
  2. Click on New Folder
  3. Fill in the desired name and confirm

Categorizing Bookmark Items

It's a bit tricky to drag them into new bookmark folder, which is created just now. You cannot drag and drop them directly from the bookmarks bar. You need to do several steps in order to drag your bookmark items into the right folder :

  1. Click on the Book shaped icon to Show All Bookmarks
  2. Now, you can start organizing them by dragging and dropping them in the appropriate way, i.e. reordering and grouping

Trick :
Opening all bookmarked items in the same group is single click away from you. You just need to call the contextual menu for the particular group and click on Open in Tabs menu selection.

Categories: Internet, Tips and Tricks
Tags: Safari

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6 Comments

Horatio 

It is still inconceivable to me that Apple doesn't provide sorting of bookmarks by clicking on the column heading. I use Bookdog to manage my bookmarks

Bernard Donville 

Thank you.  Helpful indeed.  I need to find out how to give my bookmarks small names so I can pack more onto the bookmark address bar.  Perhaps I missed it.  I will check when I have some more time.   In IE, you could do it right in the Organize Favourites Folder menu.  Bernard

sean c 

I have noticed that the bookmarks toolbar does not show the tiny icons however when you manage them it does..... is there a way to show those tiny icons in the bookmark bar in safari 3.1 on OS X 10.5.2??

Haven 

Hey in the part where you show how to change the icon color and whatnot, what application are you running? I open it and it opens in Preview.

Emil 

I used Advanced URL Catalog to organize my Safari bookmarks. This bookmark manager saved me a lot of time.

joe 

What a pain in the ass.  Like having to walk around the block to get to your kitchen.
Hard to believe there's not 'an app for that'.

SPAM

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