Using Yahoo! Bookmarks from the Yahoo! Toolbar

Here’s How

1. If you haven’t signed in to your Yahoo! account, do so now. (Remind me how.)

2. When you open a web page that you’d like to bookmark, click the Bookmarks button on the Yahoo! Toolbar, then select Save this page from the menu.

   

   Tip: If you want to organize your bookmark while saving it, you can click a folder name in the menu, and then select Add page to from the menu. Yahoo! Bookmarks will save the new page in the selected folder. Pretty cool!
   
   

   The Add Bookmark window opens.

3. Supply as much information about the new bookmark as you like. The types of information you can associate with a bookmark are:

   • Title—Keep the page's default title or type a title of your own.

   • File in—Choose an existing folder in which to organized your links, ...

     

     ...or click the folder button and create a new folder.

     

     Tip: If you already have a folder, save a step by selecting the folder name and Add this page from the Bookmarks menu. Yahoo! Bookmarks will automatically use the folder name for the File in value.

   • Description—describe in your own words the content of the bookmarked page. Yahoo! Bookmarks uses this text to locate the link when you search your bookmarks.

     

   • Tags—Add one or more tags. Tags are like keywords that you associate with a bookmark. Yahoo! Bookmarks uses tags to organize links and to locate links when you search your bookmarks. Make sure the Use tag option is checked (it is by default), then type one or more words in one or more tag boxes.

     

   • Save a copy—checked by default, this feature lets you save a copy of the original content on a web page. Some pages, such as those on news sites, change on a daily basis. The content you bookmark today could be different when you check back tomorrow. If you keep Save a copy checked, Yahoo! Bookmarks saves a copy of the original content and a link to the up-to-date content. You can view the copy by visiting the Yahoo! Bookmarks site, and open the up-to-date content by selecting the page from the Bookmarks button on the toolbar. Another advantage to saving a copy is that you can search the original content from the Yahoo! Bookmarks site.

4. Click the Save button.

   

   The link becomes part of your Yahoo! Bookmarks and you’ll be able to open its page from a browser on any computer with an Internet connection (as long as you’re signed into Yahoo!).

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What’s Next

Did you notice the change made to the Bookmarks button after you added the page? The symbol next to the label changed from to . The symbol without the plus mark lets you know that you’ve already bookmarked the web page you’re viewing.