# Bookmarks

## What are Bookmarks?

When surfing in the Internet you'll probably find many interesting web sites which you want to revisit later. Using the Bookmarks feature of iCab you can save the addresses of these web sites so you can open them later again any time comfortably.

All the web pages that are saved as Bookmark can be accessed from within the `Bookmarks` menu. You can also open the bookmark in a window (menu item `Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks`) where you can edit, delete, reorder then and create new folders to organize the bookmarks.

You can even mark a certain folder as "Favorites" folder. All bookmarks in this folder will be shown in the Favorites toolbar of each browser window, so these bookmarks can be accessed much faster than any others.

Normal bookmarks represent single web site. But there is also a special type of bookmark which is called Tab Group which can be used to save any number of web sites which are displayed as Tabs in a window. This can be useful to save a group of related web sites as a unit which can all be opened at the same time as Tabs again.

## Creating bookmarks

If you want to save a web page that is currently displayed in a browser window as bookmark, you can do this in the following ways:

- Selecting the menu item `Bookmarks > Add current Page` opens a window where the whole bookmark folder hierarchy is displayed. You can select the folder in which iCab should save the web page. You can also change the title and the URL for the bookmark. In addition you can add an optional description for the Bookmark, which will be displayed in the bookmarks window to help remember what this page is about.
- Clicking the button `Add Bookmark` in the browser toolbar or selecting the menu item Bookmarks > Add current Page creates a new bookmark for the current web page.

  BTW: the bookmarks icon of the toolbar shows and additional "star" if the current web site is already available as bookmark, so you can immediately see if it makes sense to bookmark the page again.

- In case the current window has multiple Tabs you can use the menu item `Bookmarks > Add Tab Group` to add all the Tabs of the current window as a "Tab Group" into the bookmarks.

## The Bookmarks Window

In the Bookmarks window (menu item `Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks` or clicking the Bookmarks button in the browser toolbar) you can manage all your bookmarks, create, delete, edit, reorder, bookmarks etc.

You can create folders in the bookmarks window, to group bookmarks by topic. This can be done either by using the buttons in the toolbar or using the contextual menu.

Double-clicking a folder in the bookmarks window will open this folder in a new window. This makes it easy if you want to move bookmarks from one folder into another, because you can have both folders in separate windows so you can drag and drop the bookmarks without the need to scroll.

To sort the bookmarks alphabetically, just click the column header buttons at the top of the bookmarks window. This will sort the items in the current folder. Subfolders won't be sorted, you can sort them by opening the folder in a new window first and click the column header in this window.

You can also use drag & drop to reorder bookmark items manually.

Each modification (deleting items, creating items, sorting, reordering etc.) can be undone. Just select the menu item `Edit > Undo`.

There are several ways to edit the data of a bookmark. You can select the bookmark you want to edit and then click the `Information` button in the toolbar. This will open a dialog box where you can edit all the data of the selected bookmark. But you can also edit the URL, title and description inline directly in the bookmarks list of the bookmarks window. To do this first select the bookmark, wait a short time and then click again on the title, URL or description which will then activate the inline editing feature.

## The Favorites Toolbar

In the Bookmarks window you can configure a certain folder as Favorites folder where you can store the bookmarks which are most important for you. The bookmarks in the Favorites folder are treated in a special way: these bookmarks are directly displayed in the Favorites toolbar in each browser window, which is the fastest way to open bookmarks.

To change the Favorites folder just select a folder and then click the `Set Favorites` button in the toolbar (or using the same option from the contextual menu).

## Import & Export

iCab is able to import the bookmarks from most other web browsers. To import a bookmarksfile from another browser, just use the menu item If you have used another web browser before, you can easily import the bookmarks from this browser in iCab. To import bookmarks, just select the menu item `Bookmarks > Import` and then load the file.

It's also possible to export bookmarks using the menu item `Bookmarks > Export` which can be then imported in any other browser again.

## Preferences for the Bookmarks

In the preferences dialog you can configure some bookmarks settings. If you want to share the bookmarks in multiple instances of iCab on different computers, you can use the WEBDAV sync feature. In this case you need to enter the full WebDAV address for the bookmarks file on your WebDAV server (for example `"http://www.domain.tld:81/Bookmarks.plist"`). Each change to the bookmarks is then also changed on the WebDAV server. iCab automatically checks at launch time if the version of the bookmarks on the WebDAV server is newer than then local copy and then updates the local bookmarks.

An alternative for synchronizing the bookmarks with multiple computers and also with iCab Mobile on the iOS platform would be the "iCloud". In the `iCloud` settings you can enable the iCloud sync for the bookmarks. This way you can also sync the bookmarks between icab on the Mac and iCab Mobile on iPad and iPhone.