chrislong wrote on Oct 21
st, 2010 at 6:58am:
I did not notice the bit in the manual which says you have to export back to get the bookmarklet to appear. However I am using BM like URL, so I never export. So how do I get a bookmarklet in the browser?
Yeah, as I was writing that reply to you I was asking myself the same question. We tell you that if you are intending to use BookMacster like URL Manager Pro (what we call Usage Style 3), then you never export. But exporting is the only way to get the BookMacsterize bookmarklet into your browser. We need to fix that. In the meantime, it appears that you need to break the rule and export
once. However, if you do this from a bookmarkshelf which has all your bookmarks in it, this will export all of your bookmarks to, say, Firefox. Personally, I wouldn't like that since if I'm not exporting regularly, these will quickly become stale and will be a distraction. I would want the BookMacsterize bookmarklet to be my only bookmark in Firefox. To get that,
- Click in menu Bookmarkshelf ▸ Delete All Content
- Select the Bookmarks Bar in the Content Outline.
- Click the [+] button on the right of the Content
- Select BookMacsterize to add the BookMacsterize bookmarklet
- Verify that BookMacsterize bookmarklet appears in Bookmarks Bar
- In menu click File ▸ Quick Export ▸ Firefox. Note that the Quick Export does not delete any existing items in Firefox. If you want to do that, add Firefox temporarily as a Client (Settings ▸ Clients) and do a regular Export.
- Verify that, in Firefox, the BookMacsterize bookmarklet has appeared.
- In BookMacster, click Undo to remove the BookMacsterize bookmarklet.
- Click Undo again to bring all of your bookmarks back.
A variation of this would export some bookmarks, or if you wanted to keep some bookmarks in Firefox, you could make another Bookmarkshelf to reflect those.
chrislong wrote on Oct 21
st, 2010 at 6:58am:
If this is not possible then presumably drag & drop is the only way to add bookmarks to the shelf, but then their seems no way to get the inspector to auto appear. Of course drag & drop is not very convenient since both the browser and BM's windows have to both be visible at the same time. Are there any other ways of adding individual bookmarks from a browser? Section 1.3 only discusses BookMacsterize and does not even mention drag & drop?
Well, drag and drop works, but as you have pointed out, it's hell, which is why Section 1.3 doesn't mention it.
I believe we should be able to add a button for adding a bookmark to Safari, Chrome and possibly Firefox by writing extensions to these apps, and that most people would like this better than the bookmarklet. But we started out with the bookmarklet because it has the advantage of working reliably in any browser.
A couple days ago I received some feedback privately from a user that counted something like four clicks to add a bookmark to BookMacsterizer but only one click in URL Manager Pro. I need to review that and get us down to one click or whatever.
So I can better fix this, and out of curiousity, please tell me: As a URL Manager Pro user, do you have any bookmarks in your browsers' built-in Bookmarks Managers, or do you leave those empty?
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