# BookMan: Organize your Bookmarks

BookMan is &krusader;'s Bookmark tool for bookmarking folders, local and remote URLs, and later returning to them in a click of a button. The Bookman menu is divided into four sections:

- Your personal bookmarks

- Popular &URL;s

- Permanent bookmarks

- Manage bookmarks

You can bookmark inside a remote file system (&FTP; or SAMBA) and later use the bookmark to quickly connect to the remote machine, but you cannot bookmark inside an archive.

## Bookmark menu

Bookmark menu

## Using Bookmarks

Usually, you click on the BookMan II button (the rightmost button to the right of the address bar at the top of the active panel) when you are in the target folder. For example, to bookmark `/usr/tmp`, navigate &krusader; there and click the BookMan II button and select Bookmark Current. When the Add Bookmark dialog box appears, the &URL; line will say `/usr/tmp`. Name is for the name you would like to give to the bookmark (⪚: temporary folder). Hotkeys are supported by adding `&` to the bookmark name ⪚ `&sourceforge, &home, down&loads` &etc;, so you can quickly call the bookmark name with &Alt; foo. If you add the bookmark without entering a name, the bookmarks name will be the same as its target. URL is where the bookmark points to. Create in creates bookmark folders for organizing your bookmarks.

To use your bookmarks, click the BookMan II button and choose a bookmark. You may also use the Key-Bindings: &Ctrl; B to bookmark the current item, &Alt; right/left arrow to open right/left panel bookmarks list and &Ctrl; D to open the bookmarks of the active panel. From the context menu of the bookmark (&RMB; click) you can open it in a new Folder tab.

There is a quick search bar at the top of the BookMan II menu.

The search bar will always be visible in the bookmarks menu if you check the corresponding item on the Panel Konfigurator's page.

Below are the rules to handle bookmarks:

- Just type letters to search: bookmarks are matched by name prefix

- If multiple bookmarks are matched by the prefix, they are highlighted and the first one is selected - hit &Enter; to activate the bookmark

- Once a single bookmark is matched, it is immediately triggered. That is when you type `'h'` and only one bookmark starts with `'h'`, it is executed immediately - no &Enter; needed

- Accelerators work only if the keystroke is the first one

- &Backspace; is supported

- Search is case insensitive unless you type a capital letter. That is typing `HamBurglar` will only match `HamBurglar` but not `hamburglar` or `Hamburglar`.

- Search bar is intentionally a read-only field

## Password handling

One of the benefits of the bookmark manager is that the passwords are saved using &plasma;'s services - where ⪚ your &konqueror;/&kmail; password are saved. If you have a wallet, &plasma; will save the passwords there. By clicking the bookmarks, a dialog will open and ask for your username and password. Supply them and click Save password. The passwords and usernames will be saved securely by &plasma;'s wallet (make sure it is enabled by your distro). The downside here is that if the system was reinstalled and you do not backup your passwords from the wallet as well as &krusader;'s bookmark file, something will be lost.

## Popular URLs

The submenu Popular URLs holds persistent the most popular visited &URL;s (local or remote). This submenu displays the top 15 popular URLs, sorted by ranking, so that the top &URL; is the most popular. This is easy for when you need to visit &URL;s often, but do not want to create Bookmarks, it serves as a temporary bookmark list for the most visited links. Quicksearch in Popular URLs is a fast way to browse/select the popular &URL;s:

- Open the Popular URLs or use &Ctrl; Z

- Type a few letters to narrow the search

- Press &Enter; (you will go to the &URL; from list)

## Permanent bookmarks

These are hardcoded bookmarks to the top bookmark menu; there is no need for them to be saved to the file. With the Context Menu you can enable/disable these permanent bookmarks. The following permanent bookmarks are available:

- Trash bin uses &plasma;'s `trash:/` protocol.

- Local Network uses &plasma;'s `remote:/` protocol.

- Virtual Filesystem Virtual file systems (VFS) `virt:/` is not a virtual folder, but a container for &URL;s from different file systems. It is used for ⪚ the Feed to Listbox feature of the search module and the synchronizer. The location toolbar will display ⪚ `virt:/Search results 1` or `virt:/Synchronise results 1`.

- Jump back or &Ctrl; J brings you back to your starting position when you did create a new tab in the panel window. This feature is very handy if you go deep into a directory tree, then you can return with one action to the starting point. With Set jump back point here or &Ctrl;&Shift; J sets the current directory as a jump back point.

## Manage bookmarks

To edit and organize your bookmarks, by clicking the BookMan II button and selecting the Manage Bookmarks, KeditBookmarks will be displayed. This is where you can edit/remove and rearrange the bookmarks. KeditBookmarks is a bookmark editor for &konqueror;, &krusader; and other applications, which use the XBEL standard for the bookmark format. The bookmarks are stored in `~/.local/share/krusader/krbookmarks.xml`.

The default folder for the bookmarks file `krusader/krbookmarks.xml` is `~/.local/share`. You can determine the needed folder in your system using the `qtpaths --paths GenericDataLocation` command in terminal.

This local file exists only if you have edited &krusader; bookmarks. It will be created after the first run of KeditBookmarks from &krusader;.

The default system bookmarks are stored in the `kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml` file in the directory which can be determined using the `qtpaths --paths GenericDataLocation` command.

KeditBookmarks is easy to use, however, if you need more information, please read the KeditBookmarks handbook.

### KeditBookmarks Bookmark Manager

KeditBookmarks Bookmark Manager

## Bookmarks as action buttons on the Toolbar

Bookmarks can be placed as buttons on the Main Toolbar or the Actions Toolbar. You can even make a key-binding for them:

- Create your Bookmarks.

- If you want, create keybindings for the bookmarks in the Configure Shortcuts window (Settings Configure Shortcuts...).

- Add your bookmarks as action buttons on the Main Toolbar or the Actions Toolbar with the Configure Toolbars window (Settings Configure Toolbars...).