Bookmarks
OmniWeb offers several options for controlling how bookmarks appear, and how bookmarking behaves. You can choose to share your bookmarks on your local network, and even synchronize your boomarks with other Macs.
The Bookmarks Preferences pane
- Bookmarks Page. OmniWeb will display bookmarks in browser windows, using the area normally occupied by web pages. This is often called the
Note that you can hold down the option key at any time to temporarily reverse this preference. OmniWeb will use a separate window for displaying bookmarks.
Check bookmarked pages for changes:
OmniWeb has the ability to check your bookmarked pages to see if they have been updated since you last viewed them. This setting controls the default interval for performing those checks. Individual bookmarks can have their interval changed using the Info panel for bookmarks. Available settings for the default interval are:
By default, file new bookmarks in:
This popup allows you to select the default location that new bookmarks are filed in.
Ask for label and location:
With this enabled, OmniWeb will display a sheet when you choose to add a bookmark allowing you to give the bookmark a new label and add notes.
Note that you can hold the control key to temporarily reverse this setting.
Place new bookmarks at:
- New bookmarks are added above all other bookmarks.
- New bookmarks are added below all other bookmarks.
Bookmark Sharing
This setting enables bookmarks sharing which uses Rendezvous to publish your bookmarks across your local network. Any time you are running OmniWeb with sharing enabled, other users of OmniWeb running on your local network will be able to see the content of your My Shared Bookmarks collection under their Shared Bookmarks collection.
Synchronize bookmarks with other Macs:
OmniWeb allows you to use a WebDAV server such as .Mac iDisk to store your bookmarks files (Personal Bookmarks, Favorites, and My Shared Bookmarks), allowing access to them from any Mac with internet access. Changes made to these bookmarks are saved on the server, and appear automatically in other copies of OmniWeb using those bookmarks after they synchronize with the server. The following option are available:
- Don't use bookmark synchronization at all. Your bookmarks are stored locally in your home folder.
- The information you enter in the .Mac pane of System Preferences is used to place your bookmarks on your iDisk where they can be accessed from any copy of OmniWeb 5. OmniWeb stores it's bookmarks in the Documents folder inside a folder called OmniWeb.
- If you do not have .Mac from Apple but you do have access to a WebDAV server, choose this option and enter the sever address in the field, including the full path to the folder where OmniWeb should store the bookmark files.
For more information on bookmark synchronization see Using Bookmarks & History.