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There's an excellent article on bookmarking on the Agony site (assuming it stays accessible) http://www.agony-unleashed.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.17

== Bookmark ~~Organisation~~ ==

== Bookmark Organization ==

As you build up your bookmarks, ~~organisation~~ of them will become important. You can leave them all in the main folder, but that folder will take longer and longer to load - and a delay on getting to your bookmarks may be an issue.

As you build up your bookmarks, organization of them will become important. You can leave them all in the main folder, but that folder will take longer and longer to load - and a delay on getting to your bookmarks may be an issue.

A better approach is to create the following folders: stargates, stations, celestial objects, POSes, safe spots, people - that's six folders. Then, as you bookmark, move the bookmark into the relevant folder (I use the "people" folder for bookmarks near other people's warp-in points or supposed safe spots). That way, your right-click drop-down of bookmarks has a nice ~~organisation~~ and is easy to quickly get what you want - it will only ever present you bookmarks in your system anyway. This scheme also means that bookmarks you want to treat as temporary, you can just leave unfoldered and clean up later.

A better approach is to create the following folders: stargates, stations, celestial objects, POSes, safe spots, people - that's six folders. Then, as you bookmark, move the bookmark into the relevant folder (I use the "people" folder for bookmarks near other people's warp-in points or supposed safe spots). That way, your right-click drop-down of bookmarks has a nice organization and is easy to quickly get what you want - it will only ever present you bookmarks in your system anyway. This scheme also means that bookmarks you want to treat as temporary, you can just leave unfoldered and clean up later.

Note, however, that while bookmarks are stored server-side, the folders are stored client-side. At some point during your career, you are very likely to lose your folders - at which point everything reverts to one big mess. So, in your naming scheme, include a marker for each type of bookmark - SS for safespot, SG for stargate, etc. That way, if/when you do lose your folders, you can re-create them.

Note, however, that while bookmarks are stored server-side, the folders are stored client-side. At some point during your career, you are very likely to lose your folders - at which point everything reverts to one big mess. So, in your naming scheme, include a marker for each type of bookmark - SS for safespot, SSD for safespots that are more then 15AU from celestials, SG for stargate, GO for gate observation, GOG for off-grid gate, STO and STOG for station observation, etc. That way, if/when you do lose your folders, you can re-create them.

Incidentally, a folder per system looks appealing initially, but it suffers similar problems to not foldering at all - there's too many systems out there, your main folder ends up cluttered. Because the right-click drop-down menu already filters for you on system, it's also a bit redundant.

Come up with a naming convention that suits you - something that makes it clear where the bookmark is and what it's for. Ideally also include some info about how far the bookmark is from other objects of interest. Keep your bookmark names to within 24 characters, for readability.

Come up with a naming convention that suits you - something that makes it clear where the bookmark is and what it's for. Ideally also include some info about how far the bookmark is from other objects of interest. One example is "GO Eygfe High 200km", which would be a gate observation bookmark on the Eygfe stargate 200km above the gate. Keep your bookmark names to within 24 characters, for readability.

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 There's an excellent article on bookmarking on the Agony site (assuming it stays accessible) http://www.agony-unleashed.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.17
-== Bookmark Organisation ==
+== Bookmark Organization ==
-As you build up your bookmarks, organisation of them will become important.  You can leave them all in the main folder, but that folder will take longer and longer to load - and a delay on getting to your bookmarks may be an issue.
+As you build up your bookmarks, organization of them will become important.  You can leave them all in the main folder, but that folder will take longer and longer to load - and a delay on getting to your bookmarks may be an issue.
-A better approach is to create the following folders:  stargates, stations, celestial objects, POSes, safe spots, people - that's six folders.  Then, as you bookmark, move the bookmark into the relevant folder (I use the "people" folder for bookmarks near other people's warp-in points or supposed safe spots).  That way, your right-click drop-down of bookmarks has a nice organisation and is easy to quickly get what you want - it will only ever present you bookmarks in your system anyway.  This scheme also means that bookmarks you want to treat as temporary, you can just leave unfoldered and clean up later.
+A better approach is to create the following folders:  stargates, stations, celestial objects, POSes, safe spots, people - that's six folders.  Then, as you bookmark, move the bookmark into the relevant folder (I use the "people" folder for bookmarks near other people's warp-in points or supposed safe spots).  That way, your right-click drop-down of bookmarks has a nice organization and is easy to quickly get what you want - it will only ever present you bookmarks in your system anyway.  This scheme also means that bookmarks you want to treat as temporary, you can just leave unfoldered and clean up later.
-Note, however, that while bookmarks are stored server-side, the folders are stored client-side.  At some point during your career, you are very likely to lose your folders - at which point everything reverts to one big mess.  So, in your naming scheme, include a marker for each type of bookmark - SS for safespot, SG for stargate, etc.  That way, if/when you do lose your folders, you can re-create them.
+Note, however, that while bookmarks are stored server-side, the folders are stored client-side.  At some point during your career, you are very likely to lose your folders - at which point everything reverts to one big mess.  So, in your naming scheme, include a marker for each type of bookmark - SS for safespot, SSD for safespots that are more then 15AU from celestials, SG for stargate, GO for gate observation, GOG for off-grid gate, STO and STOG for station observation, etc.  That way, if/when you do lose your folders, you can re-create them.
 Incidentally, a folder per system looks appealing initially, but it suffers similar problems to not foldering at all - there's too many systems out there, your main folder ends up cluttered.  Because the right-click drop-down menu already filters for you on system, it's also a bit redundant.
-Come up with a naming convention that suits you - something that makes it clear where the bookmark is and what it's for. Ideally also include some info about how far the bookmark is from other objects of interest.  Keep your bookmark names to within 24 characters, for readability.
+Come up with a naming convention that suits you - something that makes it clear where the bookmark is and what it's for. Ideally also include some info about how far the bookmark is from other objects of interest.  One example is "GO Eygfe High 200km", which would be a gate observation bookmark on the Eygfe stargate 200km above the gate.  Keep your bookmark names to within 24 characters, for readability.
 == Moving around ==