Safari Bookmarks: two thoughts

**thenightfly42** · January 8th, 2003, 09:06 AM

1. The bookmarks organizer is nice, but it seems to be inconsistent with iTunes and iPhoto. In these iLife apps, items are all in a big library, and are copied into folders as you drag them. In Safari, there is no main library, and items are moved.

2. There is no iTunes-style "find" box for the boomarks organizer. I'd love to start to type either the bookmark name OR some of the URL, and have my full Library (see above) actively shrink down as the matches become more specific.

Thoughts?

**Scottish** · January 8th, 2003, 11:29 AM

Originally posted by thenightfly42
1. The bookmarks organizer is nice, but it seems to be inconsistent with iTunes and iPhoto. In these iLife apps, items are all in a big library, and are copied into folders as you drag them. In Safari, there is no main library, and items are moved.

2. There is no iTunes-style "find" box for the boomarks organizer. I'd love to start to type either the bookmark name OR some of the URL, and have my full Library (see above) actively shrink down as the matches become more specific.

Thoughts?

1. Agreed, somewhat inconsistent. But not necessarily bad.

2. This would be very handy to have.

I can't seem to figure out how to manually add a bookmark. (i.e., not "click here to add the page I'm sitting on," but rather type in a name and type in a URL manually.)

Is this possible?

Scottish

**adambyte** · January 8th, 2003, 12:23 PM

Wow, I can't find it, either. I guess nobody does that anymore. Except you.... and me.... lol

**BIGDOGquake3** · January 8th, 2003, 12:24 PM

just type in the web site and then add that web site to your bookmarks!

**Urbansory** · January 8th, 2003, 12:24 PM

I was wondering that, i'm mad about pulling in my IE bookmarks. You can drag them over, one by one, but the names are lost, they take on whatever comes before the .html. Plus you can't access them from the menubar like IE which is very useful, now you have to go into the book marks, find the mark, then click it.

Edit* I see you can if you drag each folder, not too bad i guess

**mskr** · January 8th, 2003, 12:48 PM

Urbansory: Do this:

Open Bookmarks -> Show All Bookmarks

Now, look way at the bottom of the list. See the entry: Imported IE Favorites? There you go.

**thenightfly42** · January 8th, 2003, 12:51 PM

Originally posted by Urbansory
Plus you can't access them from the menubar like IE which is very useful, now you have to go into the book marks, find the mark, then click it.

In the Bookmarks organizer, the top two items in the Folders side are (working from memory) Bookmarks Menu and Bookmarks Toobar. Move the folders or individual bookmarks to those folders, and you get them. I guess that's what Steve means about Thinking Different.

**strobe** · January 8th, 2003, 04:56 PM

Apple's url completion is weak. Explorer's is still the best in that it will perform a substring search from all urls and titles then sort the result in a convenient manner.