3.0  Bookmarks

A Bookmarkshelf, and all supported browser apps, can contain several types of items: bookmarks, folders, and separators.  We refer to these item types collectively as bookmarks content items, or just content …

Other pages in this chapter describe the attributes of these items, and how you can view and edit these attributes…

3.0.1  What is a Bookmark?

A bookmark is a reference to a URL on the internet.  Besides the URL, a bookmark can have several other attributes such as its name, tags, comments (description), shortcut key, lineage, and various statistics.  Bookmarks are called links in Delicious.

3.0.2  Hard Folders

Although they can look similar other folders, most web browsers have two or three of what we call hard folders.  Like the hardware inside your computer, you cannot change the name or location of a hard folder by typing with your keyboard or clicking with your mouse.

BookMacster denotes its hard folders by displaying their names in italics, as shown here:

In order to map content items during Import and Export operations, BookMacster needs to identify equivalences between its own hard folders and those of web browser apps.  Although the following equivalences are not exact by any means, we’ve settled on the following table for mapping BookMacster’s four hard folders during Import and Export:

• Note 1.  In an BookMacster Bookmarkshelf Document, any or all of these hard folders may be made present or absent by changing the structure.
  
• Note 2.  Opera’s Personal Bar is a unique animal.
  
• Note 3.  Although you do not see a Bookmarks Menu when you click in Opera’s menu Bookmarks ▸ Manage Bookmarks, in fact all items (except the Trash) appear in that menu item.  Therefore, in our view, Opera does have a Bookmarks Menu.
  
• Note 4.  Although you do not see a Bookmarks Menu when you view Shiira’s Bookmarks Cabinet, in fact all items appear in that menu item.  Therefore, in our view, Shiira does have a Bookmarks Menu.  (By the way, you also see all of your Safari bookmarks, but BookMacster is not responsible for those.  Shiira reads Safari’s bookmarks when it launches and puts them there.)

3.0.3  Soft Folders

In contrast to the Hard Folders, we speak of Soft Folders as the regular folders you create in BookMacster or in a web browser app.  For example, folders named News or Vacation Ideas are soft folders that you’ve created.  In contrast the hard folders, you may rename, move or delete soft folders as you wish.

3.0.4  Separators

Separators, also called separator lines, are little “fences” that may be placed between groups of items that are still in the same parent folder.