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There are many types of bookmarks, but all capsuleers should at least have some basic bookmarks to travel in space safely and avoid traps or hunts. Depending on your role or operation you could extend your repertoire to various bookmarks.  

Stations come in various sizes and types. For every station there is a different undock location where all ships undock at the same point.  This is a constant location where all ships enter space. If you bookmark your location at the very moment you undock you will end up with an undock location bookmark for that station. This bookmark is used to camp people undocking from that station. If you want to engage or catch some one undocking from a station you camp this bookmark to catch that target in optimal range. Also this in an offensive bookmark; it is strongly advised to be collected for every capsuleer.

An instant warp-out bookmark is used for blockade running from a station camp. Pirates or various enemies could gate-camp that station's undock location. With the help of various fits they could instantly lock and warp-disrupt/scram your ship. Instant warp-out bookmarks are used to run from these blockades using undock mechanics and a bookmark placed at a distance at least 150 km away from your undock location in a straight direction.  

When you undock you leave the station aligned to a constant direction with your maximum velocity.  In basics, if you place a bookmark at least 150 km away aligned to this direction you could warp out almost instantly to this bookmark without being target-locked. To create this bookmark use a fast frigate or an interceptor with a MWD (micro-warp drive) fitted and as soon as you undock, hit your MWD without changing you alignment. Make some distance between you and the station - at least 150 km - and take the bookmark of the location. Next time when you undock warp directly to this bookmark. You will be instantly warped to this location without being target-locked.  

Always use different distances for your instant warp-out bookmark. If you use always same distance, they can wait for you there as a trap.  

Try to create off-grid instant warp-out bookmarks so that you cannot be detected instantly and followed. Always try not to warp at 0 to protect the exact location of your bookmark.

Safe spot bookmarks are one of the most important and creative ways to use bookmarks.  Safe spots are locations in space where you bookmark at no particular object, away from all charted entities. The only way to find someone in a safe spot and warp to that location can be done successfully by the use of scan probes.  Although you can be seen in a directional scan you cannot be followed unless someone scans your location with probes.   

 

There are three basic types of safe spots.

When you are traveling between safe spots you can click on 'add bookmark' and take bookmarks while warping. Any bookmarks created by this method between two celestial objects are called mid-point safe spots. It is the basic way to create a safe spot in a system.

Mid-point safe spots are somewhere between the alignment of two celestials and it is easy to spot or find someone at a location like this. The much safer locations are un-aligned safe spots. The spots are not in an alignment between two celestial objects.   

 

There are two ways to create un-aligned safe spots.

 

The first method is to bookmark dead space pockets when you are running missions in a system.  Dead space pockets are created randomly and are very unpredictable to find. When you are running missions always create bookmarks as safe spots.  

The second method is to create an unaligned safe spot by using two mid-point safe spots. You create two different mid-point safe spots. Then create another mid-point safe spot between those two mid-point safe spots. Then you will have an unaligned safe spot.

If your safe spot is out of the maximum onboard scanning range you cannot be detected by a directional scan.  To easily confirm that, warp to your safe spot and use you directional scanner at maximum range. If you find nothing, nothing is in directional scan range.

 

Never warp to within 'zero' of your safe spots and always move rather than sitting still. This will reduce your chance of being detected or compromise your safe spot location.  

Catching a good point somewhere close to middle is difficult from normal space view. Switch to map screen. Observe the celestial objects and define the most deviated alignments in different axis to create your mid-points. As soon as you initiate warp to your target, watch closely the tag indicating your location and catch a good mid-point from the map screen. Because your velocity varies during warp sequence, if you do not check your map screen you will end up very close to the celestial.

Unaligned safe spots are pretty safe but there is always a chance that you could be pin-pointed by probe scanning. As long as the duration you stay in a safe spot increases, chances of being pin-pointed is also increased exponentially.  

Even if you are far away from any celestials out of maximum onboard scanning range, your existence could be confirmed by your appearance in the local chat channels in high and low security space.

These safe spots can only be created by a method known as Goonswarn method. Basically a deep safe spot is a far location beyond the reach of standard probes and can only be found by deep core probes. This method is used by advanced roles, and details can be found in this Ivy League Wiki link;

There are various tactical bookmarks used for different roles but the basic tactical bookmark used by all capsuleers is the observation bookmark.  

Observation bookmarks are used for tactical observation of star bases, POS and gates. Before you warp to a gate or a base you may want to scan and check your destination from an off-grid location for any camps or targets you are hunting.  In this kind of situation observation bookmarks are used to approach a point-of-interest from a safe distance, out off the grid, to scan the destination for possible targets or camps. A directional scan of the destination from an observation bookmark would reveal relevant information without detection from a safe distance.  

In general solar systems mostly rest on a plane. (Exception proves the rule). Try to create observation points perpendicular to alignments of the object, in basics above and below. This will reduce the probability of being detected by chance.