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Changes to Bookmarks

This is coming in the next release of WordLand, v0.5.10.

Background

FIrst, I use and love the Bookmarks menu.

If you use WordLand regularly for a few months or years, and manage a lot of documents, you will need what it does. I use it in Drummer, where I write all my this.how docs, and the docs for the products, including docs pages for all the built-in verbs in Drummer's scripting language. There are a lot of them. And I'd go crazy trying to find the source outlines for each of them, which is what Bookmarks are for.

In developing Bookmarks for WordLand, I took a wrong turn, and had it automatically build a calendar structure. There are much better ways to organize that, and it's a waste of the editing functions of the Bookmarks menu.

Soooo, one of the things on my todo list for v1.0 is to straighten this out.

Changes for the Bookmarks menu

  1. We no longer automatically add new posts to the menu, or update them if you change the title or text. The title you give it in the menu should not be affected by the title you give it on the web.
  2. Add bookmark command goes at the top of the Bookmark menu, Edit bookmarks at end. When you edit bookmarks, the cursor moves to the item in the outline that's being currently edited in WordLand, if it's in the menu, otherwise it goes to the cursor location last time it was edited.
  3. When you edit bookmarks you can organize them into sub-menus and sub-sub-menus and change the organization later. This flexibility was missing in the previous implementation, the automatic calendar structure screwed with that. 
  4. The commands in the context menu having to do with bookmarks are removed. 
  5. The Rebuild bookmarks command in the Tools menu remains, so if you want the calendar structure, just run this command. It will replace everything that's already there. But if that's what you want go for it, and you can re-run it any time to get the latest. 
  6. You should periodically download the OPML for the menu and save it. Use the command in the Tools menu.

That's it, that's all it does. It's a tool for you to organize the work that you need to keep track of. It's no longer trying to be a calendar of all your posts.

Last update: 5/8/25; 4:27:32 PM.

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