NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System User's Guide

## Using Hotlists

### What is a Hotlist?

The hotlist function lets you build a list of documents on the Web that you find useful or interesting and to which you want to be able to move quickly. You can add or delete documents easily. Add documents to which you expect to refer frequently, documents that refer to a specific topic, or documents that you want to tell others about.

To look at the organization of the hotlist, open the Hotlist View window by selecting Hotlist from the Navigate menu. If you have not added any documents to your hotlist yet, it is empty. If you have added a document, the document title appears in the scroll box, as shown in Figure 3.4.

###### Hotlist View Window

### Adding Documents

To add a document to your hotlist:

1. Go to the document you want to add.
2. Select Add Current to Hotlist from the Navigate menu.

This appends the document's URL to the hotlist and displays the document title in the Hotlist window.

The other way to add a document is to:

1. Go to the document you want to add.
2. Select Hotlist from the Navigate menu.
3. Click Add Current.

### Removing Documents

To remove a document from your hotlist:

1. Choose Hotlist from the Navigate menu.
2. Select the entry to be deleted.
3. Click Remove.

### Editing Hotlist Information

Edit the title of any entry in the hotlist by selecting the entry and clicking on Edit Title. The Edit Hotlist Entry Title opens. Enter additional information or modify the default information as you like. Click Commit to save the changes.

For example, you might want to add the author's name or initials or the location of the server providing the document.

### Linking to Other Documents

Move to any document in the hotlist by double-clicking on the entry, or by selecting the entry and clicking on the Go To button.

### Sharing Your Hotlist

Use the Mail To... button at the bottom of the Hotlist View window to send your hotlist via electronic mail to a colleague. The electronic mail is an HTML document (see ``HyperText Markup Language'' for more information on the mark-up language used to prepare Web documents).

Mailing your hotlist to a colleague is a way to share your favorite or frequently used URLs. The recipient can use NCSA Mosaic for X Window System to open the hotlist as a WWW document by copying the electronic mail to a file, saving it with the `.html` extension, and opening it as a local document within NCSA Mosaic. Use Open Local... on the File menu. The hotlist hyperlinks can then be used by the recipient.

Figure 3.5 shows a sample hotlist. The tags shown between angle brackets (e.g., <H1>, </H1>, <DL>, etc.) are all HTML codes. Document URLs follow the <A HREF= tags.

###### Sample Hotlist as Mailed

        <HTML>
        <H1>Hotlist From E. Ogilvie, 277 English Building</H1>
        <DL>
        <DT>NCSA Home Page
        <DD><A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/NCSAHome.html">http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/NCSAHome.html</A>
        <DT>Cornell Theory Center Home Page
        <DD><A HREF="http://www.tc.cornell.edu:80/ctc.html">http://www.tc.cornell.edu:80/ctc.html</A>
        <DT>Bill's Lighthouse Getaway
        <DD><A HREF="http://gopher.lib.utk.edu:70/0/Other-Internet-Resources/pictures/lights/lights.html">http://gopher.lib.utk.edu:70/0/Other-Internet-Resources/pictures/lights/lights.html</A>
        </DL>
        </HTML>