List View Window

The List View window gives you an alternative view on your bookmarks. You can choose from a number of pre-defined views and perform various actions on selected items. Resize the window or scroll across to see all of the available columns. Click on any column header to sort the list by that column. Click between column headers and drag to the left or right to resize columns. Click on column headers and drag to the left or right to re-order columns.

Views

From the Show drop-down list select what subset of the current bookmark list you would like to see:

Search results: Show the results of the last search. (If you always want search results listed here, set this in the Advanced Search options.)

Marked: Show all the currently marked items.

Aliases: Show all aliases (instances) of the selected bookmark.

Duplicates (grouped): Show all bookmarks that share the same address as the selected bookmark.

Duplicates (all): Show all duplicate bookmarks in the current bookmark list.

Scheduled: Show all bookmarks for which a visit schedule is defined.

All: Show all bookmarks in the list.

Deleted: Show all bookmarks that have been deleted but not yet purged from the bookmark list.

Actions

To perform an action on some or all of the listed items:

1. Click on the checkbox by the items you want to apply the action to. To select multiple adjacent items, click on the first checkbox then shift-click on the last checkbox. To select or unselect all the listed items, click on the All checkbox at the bottom left of the window.

2. Select the action you want to perform. Depending on which view you select, two or more of the actions listed below will be available to you.

3. Click on the Do button.

Open: Open the checked bookmarks in separate browser windows.

Mark: Mark the checked items.

Unmark: Unmark the checked items.

Delete: Delete the checked items.

Undelete: Undelete the checked items.

Convert to aliases: Merge the details of the checked duplicates into a single bookmark and make the duplicates into aliases (instances of the same bookmark). This action is available only when the view is Duplicates (grouped).

Delete permanently: Permanently erase the checked items from the bookmark list.

Notes Window

To show or hide the notes window:

On the main program window, click on the notes icon

Some of the fields in the Notes window can be hidden to make the window smaller. To shrink or extend the notes window:

In Behavior Preferences you can choose whether the window extends horizontally or vertically.

Hold the mouse cursor over any of the time-related fields to see the exact time and date.

Click on any edge of the Notes window and drag to resize it.

With the text cursor in the notes box, type Ctrl+D to insert the current date.

Notes window buttons

QuickLogin: Click on this to send the log-in name and password to the last active web page or dialog box. Right-click to copy the log-in name and/or password.

Set an encryption password: Click on this to encrypt your site log-in passwords.

Passwords locked: Click on this to decrypt and/or reveal your site log-in passwords. See the QuickLogin section for more detail.

Passwords unlocked: Click on this to hide your site log-in passwords. See the QuickLogin section for more detail.

Scheduler: Click on this to schedule a visit to a bookmarked site.

Extended notes: To extend the Notes window, click on the or icon. To contract the Notes window, click on the or icon. You can select whether the Notes window expands horizontally or vertically in the Behavior Preferences.

Notes window fields

Notes: Your own notes
Log-in name: The log-in name needed to access the bookmarked site
Password: The log-in password needed to access the bookmarked site. The password is only shown when you click inside the text box. If you store site passwords in Bookmark Buddy, you should consider encrypting them.
Site updated: Date when the bookmarked page was last updated, according to the last background check.
Rating: Your rating for the bookmarked site. This can be useful for choosing which of a number of similar sites to try first. You can also filter search results by rating.
Last visit: Time you last visited the bookmark site (using Bookmark Buddy).
Previous visit: Time of previous-to-last visit.
Next visit due: Time of next scheduled visit.
Visits: Running total of the number of times you have visited the bookmarked site.
Keywords: Words (or easily-remembered abbreviations) that you would like to be able to search by to find the bookmark. Also known as 'tags' or 'labels'.
Created: Date when you added the bookmark in Bookmark Buddy.
Modified: Date of last modification to any data associated with the bookmark