{"id":395,"date":"2009-03-16T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T07:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2009-03-16T07:49:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T14:49:30","slug":"the-qd-desktop-bookmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"The Q&D Desktop Bookmark"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some reason I’m reluctant to keep adding bookmarks when I visit web pages, especially links sent by friends or places I go for research. But I have a solution I call the Q&D Desktop Bookmark.
\n
\nBookmarks are the traditional way that you remember remote web pages. Like dropping a breadcrumb, you press Ctrl+D or ⌘+D to drop<\/em> a bookmark, keeping a note of that web page.<\/p>\n

The bookmarks you create in your web browser are stored in a list of bookmarks, typically found in a Bookmarks menu. One of the great things you can do to make your web browsing life easier is to organize<\/em> that list, creating folders and categories just as you organize your computer files.<\/p>\n

If you don’t organize your bookmarks, you get into one huge bookmark mess. Bookmarks, bookmarks everywhere! It can be a mess. In fact I recommend routinely reviewing your bookmark list and pulling out those you’ve not visited in a long time.<\/p>\n

One situation I find myself in often is visiting a site and wanting to come back to it later, but not really feeling that the site is worthy enough to bookmark. Or I’m doing researching and plowing through a list of sites I want to remember, but don’t really want to bookmark (because I know I’ll just delete the bookmark later).<\/p>\n

The solution I’ve found in that situation is to create a desktop shortcut for the website, the Quick & Dirty Desktop Bookmark. Here’s how it works:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Visit the web site. Click on the link, whatever. Just open the web page.<\/li>\n
  2. Drag the web site’s icon from the Address bar out to the desktop.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Yeah, there’s only two steps. That’s because it’s a cinchy operation: dragging the web page’s icon (called the favicon<\/em> by those in the know) creates a desktop shortcut or alias that references the web site. In fact, the shortcut icon is exactly<\/em> the same thing that’s saved when you create a bookmark. The difference is that the bookmark is saved as a handy icon on the desktop.<\/p>\n

    To re-visit the website, you simply open the icon on the desktop. Ta-da! There it is. And when you’re done with whatever you were doing, you can much more easily delete the desktop icon than you can plow through a long list of saved bookmarks in your web browser.<\/p>\n

    Of course, this trick works fine for me because I’m a desktop icon minimalist; I do not clutter my desktop background with a host of icons. Yeah, I have a few, but not the armada of icons that some people have. I suppose if you’re in that position, then the Q&D Desktop Bookmark trick might not work best for you, but it remains an interesting and useful option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    For some reason I’m reluctant to keep adding bookmarks when I visit web pages, especially links sent by friends or places I go for research. But I have a solution I call the Q&D Desktop Bookmark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}