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Posted: Oct 17, 2024

Optional longer bookmark titles, if that's what you want

Here's a "power tip" for researchers or other users who may be hesitant to try out minimarks, because they think that the app doesn't support lengthy or verbose bookmark titles. When looking at screenshots of minimarks, it may appear that minimarks only supports website icons (favicons) and an optional short name (like "Wikipedia", for example). This is incorrect. minimarks actually supports bookmark names with lengths above 100 characters! "Wikipedia's Lists of The New York Times number-one books" ‒ this is an actual wiki page.

Two reasons for wanting lengthy bookmark titles:
1. Some users employ tagging schemes or other tokens, dates or ratings in their titles to help organize them and aid in later retrieval. "Wikipedia - NYT Lists - oct2024 - multiple authors - English". This is a serious difference between Pocket (which does not allow modifying bookmark titles) and Instapaper (which does). You can also identify a bookmark with only a single favicon, if that's your preference. Different spaces (pages) can display different layouts, with 1 up to 4 columns. Very long bookmark titles will wrap if they exceed the line. Additionally, minimarks has its own hashtagging feature, plus you can add comments to any bookmark title if you need even more identifying text (quote part of the webpage).

2. Web developers often have to link to many individual pages on the same website, so that all those pages end up with the same favicon. Using verbose titles, hashtags, and comments, it is easy to differentiate large numbers of similar pages. Many bookmarking tools do not provide this level of detail (ie, Pocket).

minimarks offers a surprising variety of organizing options in an elegant and streamlined package.

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Oct 23, 2024

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