This great search feature further weakens the need to organize your bookmarks into categories. If you are a savvy internet researcher, you can easily have 1000+ favorites. Organizing them into subfolders won’t make locating a particular bookmark a lot easier. If you have to think which folder to store the link every time you bookmark a page, that  seems slightly painful and distracting (at least to me). That’s why I created the Quick-Bookmark feature, which lets you save a bookmark into a predefined folder. Give it a name such as “ReadLater” or “Unsorted”. If you see a page which might end up useful some time, just right click on the tab and select “Quick-Bookmark”. The page link will be saved without bothering you with the choice of picking a folder. That’s very efficient if you need bookmark a lot of pages in a short period of time.

The searching capability from the address bar makes it make more sense to use the Quick-Bookmark feature instead of the regular “Add To Favorites” menu. Now it’s better to think of your favorites as a a database which you can easily and quickly find what you want. You don’t have to pay much attention to how it’s organized internally.

Despite everything I said, there are always people who insist on organizing everything they own into a perfect state. That’s certain a good practice if you have the energy to do that.

Let’s say you are viewing a web page which has some interesting content that you want to share. Sharing a link sometimes won’t cut it since some of the link might not be publicly accessible. So let’s capture a screenshot of it by selecting the menu File: Capture Screenshot of Selected Area. The captured screenshot will be copied into clipboard. After that, go to you facebook wall page, click “Add Photo/Video” to bring up the photo upload input box. Right click in the photo upload input box and select “Upload Clipboard Image” from the popup menu. Then, write some comments if you want and then click Post button to complete the wall post which includes the screenshot you’ve just captured. Easy enough, isn’t it?

Based on this idea, we are implementing a feature called “Upload Clipboard Image“. Here is how it works. Just right click in the file input box on the left side of the [browse...] button and select “Upload Clipboard Image” from the popup menu. The clipboard image will be automatically saved to a temporary file for uploading. As simple as that.

Here is the screenshot of using this feature to share photos on facebook,

Upload Clipboard Image

This feature will be included in the next build or two. Kindly let me know what you guys think of this feature.

Yes, the current bookmark system in SlimBrowser supports searching by keywords. But the search only checks the URL and title of the bookmark. Nowadays, every webmaster is trying their best to do Search Engine Optimization. The result is that the title of a web page is usually not very indicative of the actual content. Therefore, pretty often, you can’t find the bookmark you want.

Instead of treating the bookmark system as a tree structure that expects human organization, let’s simply treat the bookmark system as a fully-searchable database. I am planning to add an option for users to cache an offline copy of the bookmarked page (in plaintext format without all the tags and images). After that, when users search for favorites, SlimBrowser will search for title, URL and the cached text copy. Under this approach, users can use the “Quick Bookmark” feature more comfortably, which simply bookmarks the current page into a predefined folder without prompting.

Another related enhancement to the favorites/bookmark menu is to add a special folder called “Recently bookmarked” to help you quickly locate bookmarks that were added fairly recently without resorting to the full text search.

Feel free to comment if this feature will be useful to you or not. I am thinking of adding this feature pretty soon.

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