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There are many ways to add a bookmark to a Bookmark Buddy bookmark list:
Fetch from a web browser
| • | Right-click on the Tool Tray icon and select Fetch from browser. |
| • | Click on the  button. |
| • | Type Ctrl+E to fetch the bookmark currently open in the frontmost tab of the default web browser. |
| • | From the Edit menu select Fetch from browser. If more than one browser is configured, choose the browser you want to fetch from. |
| • | Right-click on the button to bring up a pop-up menu of all the bookmarks currently open in the configured web browsers. Select the bookmark you want to add. |
Bookmark Buddy will check if the address/URL is already in the current bookmark list; if it is then you will be prompted whether you want to add it as a new (duplicate) bookmark, create it as an alias of the existing bookmark(s), view the duplicates, or do nothing.
Drag and drop
Drag any of the following onto the main Bookmark Buddy program window:
| • | The page address (or its icon) displayed in a browser window. |
| • | Links in web pages, documents, e-mails. |
| • | Shortcuts (e.g. on the desktop or in the Start Menu). |
| • | Program, document or folder icons. |
| • | Highlight text in a document or e-mail. |
Create a new bookmark
| • | Type Ctrl+N and type the new bookmark title and address. |
| • | Switch to mode; click on the rightmost  button; and type the new bookmark title and address. |
| • | If adding a program, file or folder shortcut, you can use the Browse  button to locate the file or folder you want. |
Choose which category and subcategory you want to add the bookmark to or use the buttons to create new headings. Then press Enter/Return in the title input box or click on the rightmost  button when it is highlighted.
If the bookmark address already exists in the bookmark list, Bookmark Buddy will alert you and offer the option to create an alias instead.
If a list box has previously been sorted into alphabetical order (see Sort or Re-order Items), then new items are inserted in alphabetical order too. Otherwise new items are added at the bottom of the list box (but you can then re-order them as you want).
Note that you can add e-mail addresses, path names to programs, folders and documents as well as Internet bookmarks, e.g.:
| E-mail address: | mailto:user@domain.com |
| E-mail address: | mailto:Full Name<user@domain.com> |
| E-mail:* | mailto:Full Name<user@domain.com>?cc=Another Person<user@domain.com>&bcc=Secret Agent<user@domain.com> |
| News group: | news:alt.comp.shareware |
| Program: | C:\Program Files\Bookmark Buddy\BmkBuddy.exe |
| Program: | D:\WebSvr\System\inetsw95.exe -w3svc -msftpsvc |
| Local folder: | C:\My Documents\ |
| Network folder: | \\Network Volume\Disk Name\My Documents\ |
| Document: | C:\My Documents\To Do List.txt |
*This only works with some e-mail software.
Make sure that you include the full path name, including extension (‘.doc’, ‘.exe’, ‘.bat’ etc), of any programs or documents you reference.
QuickSearch
To go straight to the search results on search engines, shop and auction sites etc, Bookmark Buddy lets you pre-enter your search terms. To create a bookmark that will do this:
| 1. | Go to the web site and do a simple one-word search. |
| 2. | Fetch the web address into Bookmark Buddy. |
| 3. | Examine the web address for where your search word is mentioned. |
| 4. | Replace the search word with the following: {{prompt}} |
| 5. | If you want to include your own prompt text, use: {{prompt:my prompt text}} |
| 6. | Add the bookmark to your bookmark list. |
When you next open the bookmark, you will be prompted for your search word(s) before Bookmark Buddy loads the web page. You will find some examples in the My Bookmarks bookmark list that comes with Bookmark Buddy.
Wildcards
It is always a good habit to periodically save a document you are working on with a new file name so that you have a revision history: e.g. Report 1, Report 2, … or Report 1a, Report 1b, Report 2a, …. However you can’t easily create an alias to such a document since the alias is not updated when you save the document with a new file name. Bookmark Buddy provides a solution: it lets you refer to the latest document using wildcard characters in place of the version number/letter. An asterisk (‘*’) stands for any number of characters; a question mark (‘?’) stands for a single character. When you ask Bookmark Buddy to open the document, it will open the document with the last name that matches when they are sorted alphanumerically: 0…9, a…z (case insensitive). For instance Report ??.doc or Report *.doc would match Report 2b.doc if the only other files that could match were Report 1a.doc and Report 2a.doc.
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