Gaia: How To's and FAQs - Gaia Bookmarks

Re: New member wants bookmark

http://matthew.gaia.com — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:15:17 GMT

Awesome! You rock, Pat :) Enjoy!!

Re: New member wants bookmark

http://WoodnReiki.gaia.com — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:54:42 GMT

I did it!!
The gaia bookmark is not IN the toolbars 'bookmarks' link. Gaia in ON the toolbar.
Thanks so much. I hope it stays there.
but I know how to get it back anyway.
Thanks so much. I've been wondering why I couldn't bookmark stuff anywhere.
You're great....to say nothing of patient.
Love and Light,
Pat

Re: New member wants bookmark

http://matthew.gaia.com — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:46:52 GMT

Great! So, now if you go to that form page I linked to above, check to see if you can drag the "gaia bookmark" link up into that tool bar.

Let me know how it goes!
~M

Re: New member wants bookmark

http://WoodnReiki.gaia.com — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:36:13 GMT

We are winning Matthew. Honest.
I now have a blue star called Bookmarks on my Google toolbar.
And I managed to find this thread again. Whew!
I can't remember what it is that I'm supposed to drag and drop to the bookmark icon.

Thanks so much.
Pat

Re: New member wants bookmark

http://matthew.gaia.com — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:23:48 GMT

I see. If you put your mouse up to your google toolbar area and right-click, do you see a list of toolbars? The one your looking for may be called something like "links" or "bookmarks". If it doesn't have a check mark next to it, click it to add. Then let me know if you are able to drag the link into it or not.

~M

Re: New member wants bookmark

http://WoodnReiki.gaia.com — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:51:19 GMT

I don't know, Matthew.
I've got the Google toolbar.
Don't even know what a links toolbar is.
I'm sorry.

Pat

Re: New member wants bookmark

http://matthew.gaia.com — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:57:02 GMT

Do you have your "links" toolbar activated in IE? And does this form work?

Re: New member wants bookmark

http://WoodnReiki.gaia.com — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:34:28 GMT

Thanks. I'm using IE 7.0.5

Re: New member wants bookmark

http://matthew.gaia.com — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:03:39 GMT

Hi Pat,

I'll do what I can to help you. But first, can you let me know what browser you are using along with its version number? You can usually find the version number from the "help" menu on the tool bar. then click "about".

New member wants bookmark

http://WoodnReiki.gaia.com — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:13:29 GMT

Hi, I just signed in yesterday and I love the idea of bookmarking. But I can't get anything to drag and drop into my browser bar.

Is this feature still working? If so, How do I make it work?

I read the last post 'I got it" but I can't make any pictures out of the words and I think in pictures, so I didn't get it. I'd like to.

Can anyone help?
Thanks
Love and Light
Pat

Re: Zaadz Bookmarks FOR DUMMIES

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:32:37 GMT

TomSki, maybe someone else more knowledgable than I will jump in, but here are my attempts to be helpful.

First, does your browser have "tab" capability? If not, the only way you can get "back to your origin" page is via the "back" arrow in your browser toolbar. That SHOULD work. How have you been KEYWORD: "TRYING." ?

Well, there is one more way. IF your browser has opened a new window to get to whatever you clicked on, then closing THAT WINDOW will display the page you started from, still alive and well "in back of" the new window that got opened. At least in IE7 that is how it works. Experiment.

If you have tab capability then it's trivial. When clicking on the new link, use RIGHT CLICK, and select "open in new tab". then the origin page is just a click on the previous TAB and you're there. Be sure to click on x for the tab you are leaving, so you don't get too many going.

Try it all and let me know.

Re the two-links thing for site bookmarks, that is explained in the first two longer paragraphs in my first post in this thread. Have you looked at that carefully? What you are doing first is CREATING or INSTALLING a link or widget that will be displayed ongoingly in your browser toolbar, that says or used to say Zaadz Bookmarks. Then that process is done over fini.

That link is not to the bookmarks that HAVE BEEN CREATED. That link is to a BOOKMARK-CREATING OPERATION. It opens the input box I am about to describe:

From then on, when you are on a site/page you wish to bookmark IN THE COMMUNITY, you click on THAT link in your browser toolbar, and if the gods are willing, an input box will open up allowing you to write a description, make tags, etc. and then click on Save or Done or Whatever, and the bookmark is created in your own Bookmark section (in the Nursery section of your place) AND it goes into the site Bookmark database.

Is that clearer?

I assume you know there is no possible interaction between your browser's bookmark creation-operation or database, and the Gaia Community bookmark-creation-operation and database, except what you manually do as I outlined. You did seem to convey that you knew this, but for future Newbie readers, I wanted to make it explicit here.

What are the "two areas" to add an address to, on the site, that you were referring to? If I know what you are looking at, maybe I can clear up your confusion even better.

Blessings,

OM Bastet

Re: Zaadz Bookmarks FOR DUMMIES

http://PurpleonPurple.gaia.com — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:18:35 GMT

Thank you - I am not sure I have a handle on what you have shared.
NEWBE is definitely what I am.
I had questions and need direction on using the bookmarks.
My SCENARIO . . . . . . . . .
I am presently saving bookmarks to my browser's favorites.

I open a friends profile and they reference a site - I click to activate the hotlink and it opens the site.
I now go to my browser's Favorites/Bookmarks and have it noted.
I then try <KEY WORD TRY> to get back to my friends profile. . . .or maybe post . . .or maybe blog . . .where ever I discovered the hot link to the site I was interested with.. . most times I can not get back to my origins.
NOW I wish to add the site address to my GAIA bookmarks.
I have two areas to add this addres too ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Do you gather I am getting confused ?

IS there a mechanism that I can have the hotlink added to myGAIA bookmarks< < <hopefully the right one of the two. . . .heck both if I can> > > > without opening the hotlink and going through the process of trying to GET BACK to my origins what ever that may be ?

I am sure I did not get this writen well for anyone to understand my meanderings.

Any Help will be greatly appreciated

Namaste,
Tom

Re: Zaadz Bookmarks FOR DUMMIES

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:41:18 GMT

A tip, or a complication:

I have a Google Toolbar in my IE7 browser, and it has a Block Popups feature. If this is set in Block Popups mode, ZBOOKMARKS will not work, because the dialog box is considered a Popup, by the system. So in that case when I am on a webpage I want to bookmark, I have to press Control key simultaneously with clicking on the zBookmarks link in my Links bar/list, in order for the dialog box to open so I can enter the info about the bookmark.

And occasionally, I have to do that twice before it takes me seriously!!!! :)

A partial correction:

Lately after I add a zBookmark I am NOT taken to the zBookmarks pool display, the dialog box where I entered my description and tags just disappears and I am still on the webpage I just zBookmarked. Dunno why the change.

Blessings, OM Bastet

HOW TO: get an icon to show on your zBookmark

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:11:26 GMT

Check out this thread: http://pods.zaadz.com/zaadz_support/discussions/view/65989#66384

Useful little-known factoids about zBookmark icons!!!!!

Blessings, OM Bastet

Re: Zaadz Bookmarks (zBookmarks) is Alive!

http://haledavid1.gaia.com — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:05:37 GMT

Hee hee - I totally understand the excitement of figuring it out. It's a tool I don't use enough. Thanks for the reminder.
Blessings, David

Zaadz Bookmarks FOR DUMMIES

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:45:32 GMT

I GET IT!!!!!!! I GET IT!!!!! I am jumping up and down for joy!!!!!

I finally understand (?) this Bookmarking process, and also now understand what was confusing me about it.

May I please now offer the following as my present understanding of it all

THE "FOR DUMMIES" VERSION OF ZAADZ BOOKMARKS (especially the setting-up process.)

Here is what was confusing. There are two links with the same name and they do ENTIRELY different things. One is zBookmarks (http://bookmarks.zaadz.com/) which links into the pool or library of existing zBookmarks, just like Quotes goes to the pool of Quotes, and Pods goes to the list of Pods, and Books goes to the library or pool of books. That is the ordinary kind of link we are all used to.

However, in the instructions for activating or installing the zBookmarking capability for each of us is ANOTHER link called "zBookmarks" which is entirely different. That is the one we are supposed to drag or somehow get into our own computer's browser's sub-list entitled Links within the Favorites/Bookmarks list. (Not just put it in as a Favorite but put it into the list of Links in the Favorites or Bookmarks list, I am not fully clear about the difference but there does seem to be a difference.) (The specifics of that process seem to vary greatly among different browsers and I have nothing to contribute to THAT education!!!)

WHAT THAT LINK DOES is act like a gatekeeper to the zBookmarks library. It is actually a link TO a widget within Zaadz which enables the web page we are on to become a zBookmark. After that link has been established, according to ~C4's directions above, it can be seen by me all the time, or at least I know where it is all the time and could click on it whenever I wish to.

The thing to understand is that is NOT a link to the zBookmarks library as such, the whole big list. It is a link to the process of entering a webpage INTO the library.

Here is how I imagine the process taking place. I am on a cool webpage. I click on my browser-displayed Link called zBookmarks. It takes me from the cool webpage to the Zaadz gatekeeper/widget, who says,

Oh, I see you are on X webpage, and you want to add it to our library. Very well, please fill out this form I am showing you-I have already entered the URL for you-describing what's so great about this page, and when you do that and add some tags, and click on Add [or whatever the button says] I will be glad to add it to our pool and also to your own personal list of zBookmarks." So you duly fill out the form for the gatekeeper, and hand it to him by clicking Add, and he then shows you how it now looks as a duly admitted member of the whole zBookmarks list, over 100, 000 of them so far. You will see yours and the other latest ones.

Then you are done, and you can browse more in the library, or go back to the cool web page.

May this be of significant help to any other DUMMY who is boggled by the process. And as always I invite any corrections, additions, or changes to the above, especially corrections.

P.S. Forgive me I am going to cross post this as a separate thread with a new title, for greater visibility to Newbies.

Made my day!!!! Blessings, OM Bastet

Re: Zaadz Bookmarks (zBookmarks) is Alive!

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:37:42 GMT

I GET IT!!!!!!! I GET IT!!!!! I am jumping up and down for joy!!!!!

I finally understand (?) this Bookmarking process, and also now understand what was confusing me about it.

May I please now offer the following as my present understanding of it all

THE "FOR DUMMIES" VERSION OF ZAADZ BOOKMARKS (especially the setting-up process.)

Here is what was confusing. There are two links with the same name and they do ENTIRELY different things. One is zBookmarks (http://bookmarks.zaadz.com) which links into the pool or library of existing zBookmarks, just like Quotes goes to the pool of Quotes, and Pods goes to the list of Pods, and Books goes to the library or pool of books. That is the ordinary kind of link we are all used to.

However, in the instructions for activating or installing the zBookmarking capability for each of us is ANOTHER link called "zBookmarks" which is entirely different. That is the one we are supposed to drag or somehow get into our own computer's browser's sub-list entitled Links within the Favorites/Bookmarks list. (Not just put it in as a Favorite but put it into the list of Links in the Favorites or Bookmarks list, I am not fully clear about the difference but there does seem to be a difference.) (The specifics of that process seem to vary greatly among different browsers and I have nothing to contribute to THAT education!!!)

WHAT THAT LINK DOES is act like a gatekeeper to the zBookmarks library. It is actually a link TO a widget within Zaadz which enables the web page we are on to become a zBookmark. After that link has been established, according to ~C4's directions above, it can be seen by me all the time, or at least I know where it is all the time and could click on it whenever I wish to.

The thing to understand is that is NOT a link to the zBookmarks library as such, the whole big list. It is a link to the process of entering a webpage INTO the library.

Here is how I imagine the process taking place. I am on a cool webpage. I click on my browser-displayed Link called zBookmarks. It takes me from the cool webpage to the Zaadz gatekeeper/widget, who says,

Oh, I see you are on X webpage, and you want to add it to our library. Very well, please fill out this form I am showing you--I have already entered the URL for you--describing what's so great about this page, and when you do that and add some tags, and click on Add [or whatever the button says] I will be glad to add it to our pool and also to your own personal list of zBookmarks." So you duly fill out the form for the gatekeeper, and hand it to him by clicking Add, and he then shows you how it now looks as a duly admitted member of the whole zBookmarks list, over 100, 000 of them so far. You will see yours and the other latest ones.

Then you are done, and you can browse more in the library, or go back to the cool web page.

May this be of significant help to any other DUMMY who is boggled by the process. And as always I invite any corrections, additions, or changes to the above, especially corrections.

P.S. Forgive me I am going to cross post this as a separate thread with a new title, for greater visibility to Newbies.

Made my day!!!! Blessings, OM Bastet

won't change description. how to access ALL tags?

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:55:45 GMT

I just added two bookmarks about Intenders, and for one of them it won't enter an updated description via the edit function. In Edit mode the new description is visible, but when I hit Save the original description shows up. Any help available? It's the second one I am trying to alter the description for. (The one with the green image.)

Also, only a few of the many Bookmarks tags are listed in the ZBookmarks section. Is there a way to access the whole list, with the less popular tags? [I have asked this question about other Z areas with tag lists, and never got any answer about those, so I am sneaking it in here because it's up for me now in this context.]

Namaste, OM Bastet

Re: Duplicate bookmarks?

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:04:13 GMT

Wow, ~C, I adore it when people answer each specific question and don't leave any out. That's not as common as you might think. So appreciated!!!!!

And wow, I understood all your answers!! That's a compliment to us both, I think. :)

Looking forward to more peering through this new window into resources for changing the world.....

Namaste, OM Bastet

Re: My bookmark thingy is not working!

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:57:32 GMT

Hmmm. Just for the sake of my general Internet education: What's an HTML tag, in this context? is it the <a href... crud?

Namaste, OM Bastet