Key Features

Bookmark Buddy is a highly sophisticated tool for storing and organizing your bookmarks. These are its key features:

Finding bookmarks

• Three clicks: category, subcategory, bookmark.
• Fast full-text search facility with options to restrict which fields are searched; whether matches are case-sensitive; whether whole or partial word matches are sought.
• Show search results as a list or by highlighting.
• Filter searches by rating, date and site status.
• Refine searches (search within previous search results).
• Store searches.
• View bookmarks as a list, ordered alphabetically or by date, rating, or number of visits.
• Schedule one-off or regular visits to bookmarked sites or documents.
• SmartFolders: automatically-maintained aliases to recently visited, recently added, frequently visited, scheduled to visit, and user-selected favorites.

Organizing bookmarks

• Add, edit, sort and delete items using intuitive 3-panel interface.
• File bookmarks in multiple folders using aliasing.
• Move items around using drag-and-drop and mark-and-move.
• Check status of (validate) web site bookmarks in the background.
• Find duplicates and delete or convert into aliases.
• Add separators (optionally with text) to visually subdivide items.
• Make items bold.

Bookmark collections

• Each collection can contain up to 60,000 items (bookmarks, folders, aliases and separators).
• Protect site passwords stored in a bookmark collection using 128-bit Blowfish encryption and a single password.
• Protect entire bookmark collections using 128-bit Blowfish encryption.
• Instantly switch between bookmark collections.
• Move or copy bookmarks between collections.
• Export bookmarks to a printable document, web page, spreadsheet, or any other text format using the template-based export facility.
• Automatically maintain a 3-stage backup of each collection.
• Manually backup using 'Save copy'.
• Readily share bookmark lists with other users.

Web browser functionality

• Import and export Internet Explorer favorites
• Import and export Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox and Yahoo Toolbar bookmarks
• Import and export Opera hotlists
• Import and export MSN favorites
• Import Safari bookmarks
• Import AOL and CompuServe 2000 Favorite Places
• COM and DDE support for communicating with almost all web browsers.
• Drag and drop bookmarks to and from any web browser.
• Fetch bookmark from frontmost browser window or from a list of open browser windows.
• Open bookmark in a new window or frontmost browser window (where supported by browser).
• QuickLogin: Fill out most log-in pages and windows with a single keystroke.
• QuickSearch: enter search terms before loading a web page.
• Switch between different web browsers instantly.
• Specify which browser to use for a particular bookmark.

Windows functionality

• Import and export Start Menu shortcuts.
• Open programs, folders and documents.
• Open the reinstall-install-update containing folder of a program or document.
• Open folder in 'My Computer' or Windows Explorer-style window.
• Use wildcards in document path names: ? (single character) and * (any number of characters).
• Drag and drop bookmarks to and from any document.
• Copy bookmarks in a variety of text and HTML formats.
• QuickLogin: Fill out most log-in windows with a single keystroke.

Types of bookmarks that may be stored

• Internet bookmarks/favorites/favourites/address/URLs
• E-mail addresses
• Newsgroup addresses
• Application/program, document and folder shortcuts

Metadata stored with each bookmark

• Notes
• Site log-in names and passwords
• Keywords (to aid searching)
• Ratings (to aid selection)
• Times of last and previous-to-last visits, entry creation and modification, site check and update
• Schedule of future site visits
• Count of number of visits

High usability interface

• Alternative interfaces: Regular, Organize and Compact
• Optional use of Tool Tray
• Comprehensive keyboard shortcuts and hot keys
• User-selectable font face and size for main window
• User-definable color scheme
• Optional flat style controls with improved usability

Miscellaneous

• Loads in a snap and uses minimal disk space, memory and resources
• Includes comprehensive integrated help notes
• Import and export URL Organizer URL lists
• Unicode Edition supports mixed, non-Latin character sets
• Reader Edition runs off removable media on any (Windows) computer