-- You can bookmark the current page.

-- You can select a piece of text on the page. The seleted text will form the initial "notes" for the bookmark.

-- You can select a piece of text that contains a URL (web page address). The bookmark will be of the selected URL and not the current page that you are viewing.

-- You can select a piece of text that contains a "Tweet" (a posting from the Twitter.com website).

If a selected piece of text or Tweet contains a shortened (or "alias") version of a URL, we will attempt to expand the link into it's full and target destination page.

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The Bookmark It! is located on our home page. On our home page, click the "Learn More" text and the Bookmark It! image will be displayed.

Note: We also provide an alternate button called Bookmark It? (has a question mark to differentiate it from the our standard button). The alternate button is also found on the page as described above.

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For example, you may be on an interesting page while browsing www.nytimes.com (the website for the New York Times). Without leaving the site you can click on the Bookmark It! button and you will be prompted via a pop-up window to add the new bookmark.

The Bookmark It! button is best installed on your browser toolbar. This usually contains many of your favourite website bookmarks and is a great place to add the Bookmark It! button.

If your browser supports dragging items onto the toolbar (for example Firefox)

To add the button, go to our home page and locate the Bookmark It! image (click the "Learn More" text and the Bookmark It! image will be displayed). From there, click the image, hold the mouse button down, and drag the image onto your web browser toolbar, and then release the mouse button ("dropping" the image onto the browser toolbar).

An alternative method

If you find that your browser is not responding to the drag-and-drop method described above, then you can still add a link to your browser bookmarks by following the next section.

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For example, you may be on an interesting page while browsing www.nytimes.com (the website for the New York Times). Without leaving the site you can click on the Bookmark It! link and you will be prompted via a pop-up window to add the new bookmark.

The Bookmark It! link is best installed on your browser toolbar. This usually contains many of your favourite website bookmarks and is a great place to add the Bookmark It! link.

To add the link, go to our home page and locate the Bookmark It! image (click the "Learn More" text and the Bookmark It! image will be displayed). Right-click the image and add the bookmark to your "favorites" - preferably to your "links" or "toolbar" favorites - somewhere that is easy to access in your browser.

Add the button (link) to your existing browser bookmarks in a place that is convenient for you; if there is a "favorites" folder, then we suggest that would be a good place.

How To Use As you browse the web you can use the Bookmark It! link to bookmark interesting sites. While your browser is on a site, simply click on the installed Bookmart It! link; a popop window will prompt you to save the bookmark.

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For example, Firefox allows you to add our site to a list of sites to not block.

Microsoft IE7 allows you to override by using a key combination of "Ctrl + Alt" and then clicking our Bookmark It! link.

In some cases however, the browser version does not provide a convenient method to override the browser popup blocker on a per-site basis. For these cases, we have provided an alternate link called Bookmark It? that you can install.

If you wish, you may install both the Bookmark It! and the Bookmark It? links as they both provide a slightly different behaviour: one opens a popup window, the other stays in the original window.

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Delete the existing links from your browser toolbar: Right-click the link and select "delete".

Reinstall the links from our home page by following the instructions described in the sections above.

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Collections can be shared amongst your friends, colleagues and network. You can invite users to one or more of your collections; you maintain ownership but other users can make suggestions and invite people they know to also join the collection.

Collections shown in grey are collections that you own, those shown in blue are collections that you have been invited to.

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This icon allows you to invite users to view, share and make suggestions for a collection.

You will be prompted for the email address of the user to send the invitation to. Users that already have an account on the site will not be sent an invitation but will get immediate access to your collection.

Note that you will later on have the option of changing the access that users have to your collection.

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This icon allows you to send a general invitation to join this site.

You can send an invite to a user without specifically sharing one of your collections. Of course, at a later time, you will always have the option of inviting any user to join one or more of your collections.

You will be prompted for the email address of the user to send the invitation to. Users that already have an account on the site will not be sent a repeat invitation.

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Note that you will not be able to change the name of your default collection (named after your email address).

When you mark a collection for anonymous or public visibility, then the contents of your collection will be visible by other users (whether or not they have been explicitly been invited to the collection).

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The invite permission allows a user to invite other users to your collection.

The suggest permission allows a user to suggestion bookmarks for your collection. The suggestions will be added to an inbox which you can review and accept or reject suggestions.

You can also remove the membership of a user from your collection.

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You will be able to accept or reject suggestions.

If you accept a suggestion, a screen will let you to add notes and associate the bookmark to multiple tags and folders.

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To transfer bookmarks from your browser is a two step process.

First use your browser functions to save or export your bookmarks into a file on your computer.

Then use the import function of this site. You will be prompted to identify the location of the file where you have just saved your bookmarks.

Note that bookmarks are always imported into your default collection - the one named after your email address. From there, you can use the drag-and-drop functionality to further copy individual folders and bookmarks into your other collections.

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The saved bookmarks can then be imported by most popular browsers.

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Use this icon to view recently deleted collections and recover those that have not been fully deleted.

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A tag is a way of cross-referencing a bookmark in a collection so that you can easily find it at later time.

Think of a tag as a sub-category of a collection. The bonus is that you can further divide a tag into sub-tags and sub-sub-tags etc.

There is not a fixed set of tags - you create the tags that make most sense to you.

Within a collection you may have hundred of bookmarks and tags provide a way of organizing your bookmarks.

A bookmark can be associated to one or more tags.

For example, you could have a bookmark that is associated to the tags music and news.

Tags are always single words (that is, the name of tag cannot contain spaces or special characters). Use a forward slash to indicate a sub-tag. For example, the following are examples of tag and sub-tag names:

music
music/world
music/experimental
music/classical/western
music/classical/eastern

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Clicking on an icon next to an existing tag will create a new tag that is a sub-tag. Otherwise, a new top-level tag will be created.

You do not have to create a tag before using it. When you add a new bookmark you can simply enter any tag name and the system will automatically create the appropriate tags and sub-tags.

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Bookmarks associated to the old tag name will automatically be re-associated to the new tag name.

Note, if you delete the last tag that a bookmark is associated to, the bookmark will also be deleted!

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Clicking on a bookmark will create a new browser window that will show the website associated to the bookmark.

There are two ways to add a new bookmark. The first is to use the Bookmark It! button that you installed during setup (see the top of the help section for further details). We recommend this as the easiest and preferred method to add new bookmarks.

The second way to add a bookmark is to use the "Add a new bookmark" button (as show in the picture on the left). This will allow you to enter the specifics of your new bookmark.

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See the next section for the bookmark details screen.

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The Web URL is the "address" or "location" of the web page being bookmarked. Unless you are manually adding a bookmark (using the "Add a new bookmark" button), this field should normally not need to be changed - but can be if you need to.

The Notes is where you can add your personal notes about the website. Other users that are sharing and viewing your bookmark will also be able to see your notes.

The Tagged section displays the current tags that the bookmark is associated to.

The Add tag allows you to select from your existing set of tags and associate them to the bookmark.

In the Create tag! field you can enter new tag names that you want to associate to the bookmark. You can add multiple tags by separating the tags with commas. You specify sub-tags by using a forward slash.

The following example would tag a bookmark to both music and art:

music, art

An example that tags a bookmark to finance and the sub-tag equity within stocks:

finance, stocks/equity

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Click on an item, hold the mouse button down, move the mouse and drag the item to a destination.

You can:

Move a bookmark to a new tag.
Copy a bookmark to collection.
Move a tag to another tag.
Copy a tag and all related bookmark to a collection.

Make suggestions
For those collections that you do not own, you can make suggestions:

Copying a bookmark to a collection will cause a suggestion to be sent to the owner of the collection.

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Your bookmarks will only be added if the "add to bookmark" box is checked when you add or edit your bookmarks.

Your User ID will also be the name of your blog page. For example, if your User ID is "susan", then your blog page can be found at:

dejaSpace.com/blog/susan

(Please see below for additional help on blog names).

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Your bookmark notes (upto 4000 characters) will form the contents of your blog entry.

As soon as you save a bookmark entry, your next visit to your blog page will show the update information.

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Your blog page will have the same name as your User ID. For example, if your User ID is "susan", then your blog page can be found at:

dejaSpace.com/blog/susan

If you have added additional collections, each will be assigned its own blog and will have its own blog name.

For example, if Susan's User ID is "susan" and Susan had created a collection called "Financial", then the blog page for Financial can be found at:

dejaSpace.com/blog/susan/financial

Note that letter case (i.e. capitals, lower case) does not matter in the blog name. So

dejaSpace.com/blog/susan/financial
dejaSpace.com/blog/susan/Financial
dejaSpace.com/blog/susan/FINANCIAL

all refer to the same blog and same collection.

Also note, that if you have a collection name with blank characters, you should rename your collection to remove the blanks (blanks are not allowed in the blog name). In the interim, your collection blog can be accessed by using a blog name without blanks.

For example, if your bookmark collection was named "My Sports", the blog name would be:

dejaSpace.com/blog/susan/mysports

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Each of your collections will be listed in the dropdown menu. Select the one that you want to configure and enter or edit the "About" text. Save your results and your blog will be show the new text the next it is viewed.

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By publishing your bookmarks into an RSS feed, your readers can automatically receive updates each time you add a bookmark to your blog.

Readers of your blog page can use the orange RSS icon to subscribe to your blog. The RSS icon is located near the top right of your blog page.

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