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By time, every player creates his own bookmarks and if you don’t organize and manage them you will end up messing up with you bookmarks. There are some basic for organizing and managing bookmarks. Although there are no strict rules on these formats, in principle their syntax is formed by various experienced players through time and you may create your own style accordingly.  

The most important point in organizing your bookmarks is labeling. In difficult situations you need to recognize your bookmark in a second and use accordingly. So the bookmark labels should have a standard easy recognizable format for strict situations. You may use directories to separate you bookmarks but the folder structure is kept in your computer but bookmarks are stored in game server. So if you lost your computer, you will lose the folder structure but your bookmarks will be safe.  It is important to create an efficient way to label your bookmarks from the begging which will keep things neat and clear for you in future.  

Before labeling your bookmarks, you should familiarize yourself with the information stored with your bookmarks in places tab.  

The location of the columns in this could be arranged according to your choices. Labels are the names you give to each bookmark. Type of our bookmarks is “Coordinate”. Jump indicated the distance of the solar system you bookmark rests in jumps. Sol, Con and Reg are for solar system, consolation and region information. Date indicates the specific EVE date and time bookmark created. So you may avoid using these details in your bookmarks to simplify the label.

As an example for labeling is the Agony Style. It may seem a bit complex but after few practice it becomes very clear and easy to recognize the style.  

Some examples for the bookmarks we discusses above:

|--04: (VII)@16Au--| is the forth safe spot in the system 16 Au way from the closest celestial, which is planet VII.  Planet indicated by Curvy brackets, bases by rectangular brackets and gates name are written as they are.

|--05: Balle@21Au--| is fifth Safe spot bookmark in the system and closest celestial is Balle gate21 Au away from the spot.

|--01: [E-UNI:IX-PTS]@8 Au--| is first Safe spot bookmark in the system and closest celestial is Eve Uni Aldrat HQ 8 Au away from the spot.

More detailed explanation of this system could be found at Agony Unleashed web site; http://www.agony-unleashed.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.17

Define you own style and stick with it to avoid any future confusion between you bookmarks!

Try not to use information already available in places tab for bookmark labels and keep it as simple as possible because you may need to find you bookmark in an instant in case of an emergency or a strict situation.

You may sort you bookmarks according to their jump distance. By this way those will be available on top of the list. The bookmark in the current system is always highlighted with green to help you separate them better.  

You may reach your bookmarks through right-mouse menu in space. Only the bookmarks in the current system will show up in this menu.

Folder is the simplest way to organize your bookmarks. But if you change computer or somehow you have to reinstall you client, you will lose all the folders in your computer. Depending folders on organizing you bookmarks will end up you in a great mess. Other than that you could use folders to arrange you bookmark according your style.  

When you use right-mouse menu to reach your Bookmarks in space you will also observe you folders in this menu. You may place all bookmarks to their folders and left only most important bookmarks in root folders in just a two click range.

You may share you bookmark with others in game but in most situation this is not recommended because acquiring bookmarks is very difficult and if you share you safe spot bookmarks and etc. then they will become public and you may be compromised. You may share you bookmark with you Corp mates but consider these bookmarks as compromised.

To copy your bookmarks, open the places tab and select all the bookmarks you want to copy. Multiple selections could be done by using shift key for in-between selection or ctrl for one by one selection.  Copying could be only done to your items or cargo hold. Hold shift key while clicking and dragging the bookmarks to your hangar or ship's hold will copy your Bookmarks. You can copy maximum five bookmarks at a time.

You could Share you bookmarks through trade and contracting in a station or through cans in space.  Once you receive bookmarks, you will see them in your cargo hold or items window. Dragging and dropping them in to you places tab will do the trick for adding these copies to your bookmarks.

If you think that you bookmark is compromised or you share it with your mates and then separated from them with any reason, just trash you bookmarks that you share with them. Also thrash the bookmarks you used with a fleet, because everyone in that fleet learn your safe spot.

You can recycle your compromised or old bookmarks. Use the mid-safe technique that described above in safe spot section but this time using you safe spots rather than celestials to take mid-point. By this way, you will be able to generate more un-aligned safe spots from your older ones.