A Short History Course
You know by now that I love serendipity. Not just the word - though I'm fond of that, too. I really love a serendipitous event.
Today I was attempting to perform a simple keystroke task on my computer, when up popped a Firefox window called "Library." (It was Ctrl+H, for the record.)
I've never seen this before, but it's essentially a history of every page I've visited - similar to the History menu but more complete - going back about three months.
What's fun and useful about this is first, it's searchable. You can search all the available entry data with one or more words, and also save your search as a smart folder. You can also view and sort history entries by Name, Tags, Location, Visit Date, Visit Count, Keyword, Description, Added date, or Last Modified date.
Another useful feature is "tags." Tag any history entry for ease of recovery down the road - it in essence "bookmarks" them using keywords.
In essence, the library offers "a central place to manage bookmarks, history, and tags, the three organizational elements that Firefox provides for Web locations you've visited and saved. (Put another way, it just combines the old Bookmarks Manager with History and Tags management.)
The upshot is, you can create bookmarks now or later, use history or tags to find visited "places," organize the places you've been and even view them by tags, dates, descriptions or other features - all in one convenient window. Which you can accidentally find by typing Ctrl+H while in Firefox.
Sweet.
Today I was attempting to perform a simple keystroke task on my computer, when up popped a Firefox window called "Library." (It was Ctrl+H, for the record.)
I've never seen this before, but it's essentially a history of every page I've visited - similar to the History menu but more complete - going back about three months.
What's fun and useful about this is first, it's searchable. You can search all the available entry data with one or more words, and also save your search as a smart folder. You can also view and sort history entries by Name, Tags, Location, Visit Date, Visit Count, Keyword, Description, Added date, or Last Modified date.
Another useful feature is "tags." Tag any history entry for ease of recovery down the road - it in essence "bookmarks" them using keywords.
In essence, the library offers "a central place to manage bookmarks, history, and tags, the three organizational elements that Firefox provides for Web locations you've visited and saved. (Put another way, it just combines the old Bookmarks Manager with History and Tags management.)
The upshot is, you can create bookmarks now or later, use history or tags to find visited "places," organize the places you've been and even view them by tags, dates, descriptions or other features - all in one convenient window. Which you can accidentally find by typing Ctrl+H while in Firefox.
Sweet.
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