Iona, I saved one of Esther's many useful posts on this topic. She answered Linda Adams and me. Here's the post, below. Hi Paul,
Ricardo has given you the quick answer to using bookmarks. You can read a more detailed description about general navigation of your bookmarks in my archived post: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg21962.html (Re: moving and deleting bookmarks) I'll just briefly remark here that there is a general page for your bookmarks that you access with Command-Option-B, which is the shortcut for the "Show All Bookmarks" entry in Safari's Bookmarks menu. You'll greatly simplify your navigation of that page, and improve your understanding of its organization if you first hide your toolbar, bookmarks bar, and tab bar -- all options that toggle between show and hide with shortcuts listed in the View Menu on the menu bar (Command- Shift-Backslash, Command-Shift-B, Command-Shift-T). At that point, after you interact with the scroll area, pressing tab will move you between three areas: a table of different collections of bookmarks such as your navigation history, your Bookmarks Bar, your Bookmarks Menu, and any folders you may have created to organize your bookmarks on this page; a search text field that you can also move to directly with Command-F, and a table listing individual bookmarks in your selected bookmark collection by bookmark name and address. The general action will be to interact with the table of collections and select a bookmark collection or folder and then to tab to the table listing the individual bookmark entries and interact, then navigate to the bookmark of interest and activate it by pressing space bar. You can also reduce the list of entries to navigate through in that second table by using the search field to type in Bookmark names or parts of bookmark names, and then only matching entries will be shown in the second table. The usual navigation options of typing the first few letters in the name of a bookmark to move to it and/or using your up and down arrow keys will work here. There are also context menu options for editing bookmark name or address, copying or deleting, etc. As Ricardo mentioned, the first nine bookmarks saved to the Bookmarks Bar on your Bookmarks page have the special property that they can be launched by pressing the Command key together with the number of the bookmark. (You can hide your bookmarks bar and still activate the first nine bookmarks by pressing Command and the number from 1 to 9 for the bookmark you want.) However, note that whenever you save a new bookmark to the Bookmarks Bar, it becomes bookmark number 1, and displaces the previous first bookmark, which is now number 2, etc. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Nov 28, 2011, at 9:10 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: > Hi all, > > I have read through the vo getting started guide about safari. Is there a > resource to read up on bookmarks in safari? I am a bit confused about they > are organized. Bookmarks menu, bookmarks bar, what is the difference. > Folders, collections... a bit much for my poor brain. > > Also I have selected a bookmark but cannot find a way to go to it. I press > command o and get in to the open dialog box. Press enter and get to the edit > bookmark name. > So, as you can see, I got some issues with bookmarks. > > Thanks for any help. > > Ioana > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
