Because Bookdog can get bookmarks from so many places, the File has some extra items...
The bookmarks managers built into the web browsers (Safari, Firefox, etc.) treat your bookmarks as their own; any changes you make are written to the hard disk immediately, and the only way to undo a change is to use Edit > Undo. Online Web Services do the same, of course, since your bookmarks are in fact on their server.
Bookdog, by contrast, opens a document window for each browser/service's bookmarks and treats these bookmarks in each window as a document. Bookmarks are not written to the hard disk, or uploaded to the server in the case of a Web Service, until you click Save. Advanced Usage...
Before we get into details, a couple of quick really-FAQ:
Undo and Redo
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Maintain Actions
Sort. When you click Sort, Bookdog sorts your bookmarks according to your Sorting Order preferences, and what folders you have marked as sorted or unsorted. The preferences are set for each document in menu > Bookdog > Preferences > Sorting Order preferences. Sorting is un-doable by clicking menu > Edit > Undo Sort. More... Analyze and Fix Duplicates. Click Analyze to find duplicate pairs of bookmarks, and then Fix Duplicates to fix them. More... Verify and Report. Click Verify to find broken or suspect bookmarks. Bookdog will fix the easy ones. After the process completes, click Report to show detailed results and finally Broken Bookmarks fix the questionable ones. More... | ||||
Selection Actions
hold down the ctrl key and click the selection. click in the Selection menu (shown at left). type a keyboard shortcut, as shown at left. The first two methods will bring up a contextual menu which actually has a few additional actions not available in the Selection menu. Here are descriptions of some of the actions available: View and Edit an Item's Properties. To view edit an item's other properties, click Inspector. Visit. When you are click Visit, the selected bookmark is rendered in the browser which you have indicated in the menu Preferences -> View. The browser will become the active application. If you want Bookdog to remain the active application, hold down the 'option' key as you click this button or perform the key equivalent.  (⌘K to visit and activate browser, ⌥⌘K to visit without activating browser.) If you have Mac OS 10.5 or later, you can also visit selected items by doubleclicking on them. Delete Items. When you Delete a selected folder, this deletes all the items inside it too, so if you want those items you must move them out first. Change whether or not a folder Will be Sorted. Note carefully the words will be. Bookdog allows you to set many parameters regarding how your bookmarks will be sorted, when sorting is done, and one of these parameters is that you can designate some folders to be sorted and some to remain usorted. If this menu item is preceded by a checkmark, the selected folder(s) will be sorted. If this menu is preceded by a dash, "-", that means that you've selected more than folder, some of which are designated as sorted and some of which are designated as unsorted. However, it's easier to look at a folder's background color and symbol in the outline:
To change or "toggle" the sorted/unsorted designation of the selected folders, either click the menu item, click the contextual menu item, or type the keyboard shortcut ⌘7. Add prefixes to names so items will be sorted to the top or bottom. Bookdog adds, respectively, the prefixes " " [blank space] and "~" to achieve this, since these are the first and last characters in the lexical order. This option is only available if you have set your your Sorting Order preference for this document to sort by name, because otherwise these tags would have no effect. (Warning: When adding a new bookmark in Safari, if you begin the name with a blank space, Safari will ignore the space! To add a space prefix, you must use Bookdog's Main Window, or the "Show All Bookmarks" browser in Safari, after you have added the bookmark.) Adding Tags (Labels) by Drag and Drop To quickly "tag" or "label" large numbers of bookmarks, you can
Creating New Items Besides migrating, cut/copy/pasting and dragging among your windows, you can create completely new bookmarks and folders. From scratch. To create a new item, you may optionally select a "parent" or "sibling" where you would like it to appear, then click From a .webloc file. You can drag and drop in one or more Safari "web location files" and it will create a new bookmark. (These files have names that end with extension ".webloc" and are created by dragging a url from Safari's url field to the desktop or a Finder window.) From Safari's address bar. You can create a bookmark by dragging in the text from Safari's address bar. From Safari's Show All Bookmarks. You can copy a bookmark or whole folder of bookmarks by dragging in an item from Safari's Show All Bookmarks bookmarks manager. Separators (Separator Lines) Bookdog, Camino and Firefox allow you to introduce "Separator Lines" or "Separators" to further subdivide folders:
When sorting, Bookdog does not cross separators. Safari. Separators are not supported by Safari. If you Add New Separator in Bookdog's Safari window, or drag and drop a separator from Bookdog's Camino or Firefox window into Bookdog's Safari window, Bookdog makes a fake separator for you which Safari will see as a bookmark bookmark whose name is a horizontal line. Things which you Cannot Do Bookdog must enforce certain rules to maintain compatibility with each web browser or service. This means that there are some things which you cannot do. More... Back to Bookdog Help, Main Index. |