Help for BookMacster App Family Inside this Help Book, the following icon suffixes on page or section titles indicate which app(s) the page or section is applicable to: Smarky Synkmark Markster BookMacster 1. Starting Points 4. Reference Topics 1.1. Getting Started with Smarky 4.1. Glossary 1.2. Getting Started with Synkmark 4.2. Finding Your Settings 1.3. Getting Started with Markster 4.3. Import, Export & Syncing 1.4. BookMacster for One Browser 4.4. Visiting Bookmarks 1.5. BookMacster : Sync Browsers 4.5. Visiting + Adding 1.6. BookMacster as a Central Store 4.6. Browser Add-Ons 1.7. BookMacster : Custom Usages 4.7. Browsers (Clients) 4.8. Browser (Client) Oddities 2. Setup Tasks 4.9. Agents 2.1. Creating a Bookmarkshelf 4.10. Multi-Device Sync Configurations 2.2. Simple Agents 4.11. Sync Loops 2.3. Test Syncing 4.12. More About Syncing Among Macs 2.4. Settings for Direct Usage 4.13. Hiding and Scripting 2.5. Changing Your Setup 4.14. Bookmarkshelf Document File 4.15. Bookmarkshelf Structure 3. Organizing Tasks 4.16. Organizing In Folders vs. Tags 3.1. Pause and Resume Agents 4.17. Bookdog Grads’ Startup 3.2. Consolidating Your Bookmarks 4.18. Resolving Errors 3.3. Sort (Alphabetize) 4.19. Interpreting Icons in Content 3.4. Duplicates 4.20. The Inspector Panel 3.5. Verify Bookmarks 4.21. Open, Save Automatic Actions 3.6. Tagging 4.22. Bookmarks, Folders and Separators 3.7. Navigating Your Content 3.8. Create New Items 5. Support and Admin 5.1. Installing and Licensing 5.2. Acknowledgements 5.3. Version History 5.4. Legal Notices Home | Parent ← Go → Next 1.0 Starting Points Topic Pages in Chapter 1 1.1 Getting Started with Smarky 1.2 Getting Started with Synkmark 1.3 Getting Started with Markster 1.4 BookMacster for One Browser 1.5 BookMacster : Sync Browsers 1.6 BookMacster as a Central Store 1.7 BookMacster : Custom Usages Home | Parent ← Go → Next Home | Parent ← Go → Prior | Next 1.1 Getting Started with Smarky Follow the steps below. If you click a link for more detail, use the Back (◀) button in the toolbar above to return here. Launch Smarky. Smarky will automatically import your current bookmarks from Safari the first time you launch it. If those have changed and you want to re-import the bookmarks you have now, click in the menu: File > Import from Safari. If you have other bookmarks in other files, browsers or devices which you want to import and merge with what you have just imported, import those now and consolidate all of your bookmarks. Organize your bookmarks. Check and be sure that the Content you now see in Smarky is what you want in Safari. Smarky can keep your bookmarks in Safari sorted automatically. It will watch for when you change bookmarks in Safari, or from iCloud, import the content, sort it, and export it. To enable syncing Click the Syncing button in the toolbar to being syncing. It will get a green dot like this… When prompted, click Export. Quit Smarky. Smarky’s syncing will perform when needed in the background. (If you leave Smarky running, syncing will still work, but it will draw a sheet over the window while it is working, to prevent conflicts.) If desired, you may test syncing. To finish without enabling syncing Click in the menu: File > Export to Safari. You should consider, but ultimately approve of any warnings which appear. Click in the menu: Smarky > Quit Smarky. Home | Parent ← Go → Prior | Next Home | Parent ← Go → Prior | Next 1.2 Getting Started with Synkmark This section gives the steps to set up Synkmark, possibly in conjunction with other services, to sync the internal bookmarks of your web browsers. Follow the steps below. If you click a link for more detail, use the Back (◀) button in the toolbar above to return here. Launch Synkmark for the first time. You will be prompted to choose the browsers you wish to sync. (Later, these will be in Preferences > Syncing. ) If there are other bookmarks in other files, browsers or devices which you want to import and merge with what you have just imported, import those now and consolidate all of your bookmarks. In particular, if there are bookmarks on other Macs that you want to have in your synced collection, make sure you get those now and import them into this document. Organize your bookmarks. If you have other proprietary sync services such as iCloud, Firefox Sync, Sign in to Chrome, or Opera Link already syncing your bookmarks, or if your ultimate goal is to sync your bookmarks among multiple devices, read about the different routes available for syncing multiple devices and sketch out how you will use Synkmark, in conjunction, with other services if necessary, to reach all the browsers on all devices. If, as a result of the previous step, you need to disable branches of these other services because they are not in your sketch, do that now. If you don’t remember how you set them up, we have links for you. Check and be sure that the Content you now see in Synkmark is what you want in your web browsers. Click the Syncing button in the toolbar to being syncing. It will get a green dot like this… When prompted, click Export. Quit Synkmark. Synkmark’s syncing will perform when needed in the background. (If you leave Synkmark running, syncing will still work, but it will draw a sheet over its document window while it is working, to prevent conflicts.) If you are only using Synkmark on one Mac, you are done. If desired, you may test your Agents. If you made a sketch earlier and it shows Synkmark on multiple Macs, repeat the following group of steps on each additional Mac. They’re mostly the same as what you did on the first Mac. Install Synkmark. Find the synced .bkmslf Bookmarkshelf Document file, which you placed in your Online Synced Folder on your first Mac. (For most services, you can get there by clicking on their menulet on the right side of your menu bar.) Verify that the file is done downloading. Most services indicate this with a green checkmark “badge” on its icon. If you don’t see the file or the badge yet, check your network connection and the configuration of your Online Synced Folder, and wait a few minutes. (Path Finder users must Reveal in Finder to see the badge.) Double-click the .bkmslf file, to open it in Synkmark. Click the tab: Settings > Clients and add the clients that you want synced on this Mac, switching on Import, Export or both, as desired. Set up simple Agents to watch your Clients for changes on this Mac. If you Paused agents during the previous step, click the Syncing button in the toolbar to Resume syncing. This time, click Export. Your initial export is very important, to make sure that all clients begin with the same bookmarks, that is, they begin in sync. Quit Synkmark. Your setup is now complete. If desired, you may test your Agents. Home | Parent ← Go → Prior | Next Home | Parent ← Go → Prior | Next 1.3 Getting Started with Markster Follow the steps below. If you click a link for more detail, use the Back (◀) button in the toolbar above to return here. Import any existing bookmarks. to your Bookmarkshelf document. Review the following facilities which you may use to land (add) new bookmarks into Markster, or visit bookmarks currently in Markster. Decide which facilities you would like to use. Some of them require some setting up. Facility Landing Visiting Works in browsers Keyboard Shortcuts ✔ ✔ All readable browser apps Status Menulet ✔ ✔ All readable browser apps Dock Menu ✔ ✔ All readable browser apps Browser Menu Items ✔ Firefox only Browser Toolbar Button ✔ Chrome, Chromium, Canary only Bookmarklet ✔ All browsers Scripting Markster ✔ For each facility you’d like to use, perform any setting up as indicated in the links in the table above. Designate a default folder for New Bookmark Landing. If you don’t want sound effects when landing new bookmarks, switch off that preference. If you don’t want to use the default web browser you have already set in Mac OS X, set the default web browser for visiting from Markster. Consider whether or not you’d like to hide Markster. RELATED TOPICS Landing new bookmarks with the Floating Menu How new bookmarks get their initial Name and Comments Automatic Saving Which browser is used for visiting Home | Parent ← Go → Prior | Next Home | Parent ← Go → Prior | Next 1.4 BookMacster for One Browser To set up BookMacster to manage the bookmarks of a single web browser, you will create a Bookmarkshelf document with that single web browser as a Client. Follow the steps below. If you click a link for more detail, use the Back (◀) button in the toolbar to return here. Activate BookMacster. Create a Bookmarkshelf Document, switching ON the checkboxes for the browser whose bookmarks you wish to manage. If you have other bookmarks in other files, browsers or devices which you want to import and merge with what you have just imported, import those now and consolidate all of your bookmarks. Organize your bookmarks. Click in the menu: File > Export to all. You have just manually organized your bookmarks and you can stop here. But there’s more, if you want. BookMacster can keep your bookmarks in a web browser sorted automatically. It will watch for when you change bookmarks in the web browser, imports the content, sorts it, and export it.