You browse those articles, web sites and Web 2.0 masterpieces, give them a quick look over and say to yourself, “I should really comeback here later” because you know your suppose to Christmas shopping – not browsing through interesting pages.
Quick Place to Store Pages for Later!
If you have been in these situational shoes before, I have a quick fix that will let you get back to work. No extensions are needed and only a little browsing habit needs to be changed.
1. Right-click on your bookmarks toolbar and create a “New Folder”.
2. Name that folder “Temp”
3. Next time you find yourself looking at something you want to give a little more time to at a later date and time, drag the favicon “or page icon” in the address bar to this new “temp” folder and get back to doing what you need to be doing.
This is one of my little browser tweaks that I have been doing for years and years. It makes it really easy to save stuff you want to read through at a later date and time and once you have, you can delete it or move it to another one of your bookmark folders.
Nice tip! I was trying the ‘read it later’ extension but it wasn’t working properly so I shall use this method instead!
Thanks Mitch!
And without an extension! Yes!
BTW, do you know of a contest for new extensions?
There’s one i would like to submit related to OpenBook. Let’s say i have a bookmark to enter, it’s a duplicate but i would like to override or modify the existing one but without having to go through the hierarchy.
Makes sense?
This is my favorite web browsing tip! I call my folder “follow up” and clear it out once a week – so I don’t procrastinate and leave the bookmarks in there forever. :)
why can I not get Firefox 3.0 Browser? When I hit the button to get it, the 2.0 version request comes up on my screen. I do not understand.
Great Tip! Can you tell me how to re-order my bookmarks so that I can put the temp folder into the immediately visible section, rather than having to click >> to reach it?
Thanks all for the feedback on this one. :)
Thom, you can pick up Firefox 3 here.
Lesley, do you have your bookmarks toolbar on? If so it should be easily accessible there.