I did a quick run through the FAQ and the site how to but didnt find the answer to my question. I've been finding some great pieces of wisdom on the site that I'd like to keep in my own hymnal. However often, when i search for an object, I just get returned to the main page which makes the node unable to be bookmarked. For example, I found this one through search, but when i went to add it to my list I noticed that I was actually just putting another entry for the front page into my bookmarks.

Is there a way to find a node's ID so that I can directly reference it in the future or with bookmarks? Or do i need to manually create my link with http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node=poor%20person%27s%20database

humbly -c

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Re: How to bookmarks Perlmonk nodes
by Mission (Hermit) on Aug 03, 2001 at 17:21 UTC
    Go to your home node (in user settings) and turn on your 'personal nodelet' node. It will allow you to add different nodes - AKA 'bookmark.' The only part that I find a bit frustrating is that you can not organize (re-order) them. They are in the order that you add them.

    - Mission
    "Heck I don't know how to do it either, but do you think that's going to stop me?!!"
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      jeffa wrote the Personal Nodelet Extractor to address this very problem.

      Otherwise, if you examine a link on the page in question, you find they are all of the nature:

      http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=29008&lastnode_id=101961

      If you have to create the URL manually, you just set the node_id parameter to that of lastnode:

      http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=101961

      This is easier than having to type impossibly long node names.

      update: tye's corrections taken into consideration.

      --
      g r i n d e r
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        s/node=/node_id=/. Using node= will usually work but node_id= will be faster and is immune to being "tricked" by nodes having a title that is equal to some other node's number.

                - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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Re: How to bookmarks Perlmonk nodes
by stefan k (Curate) on Aug 03, 2001 at 18:50 UTC
    Ok, this is not a solution just a report:
    ol' netscape (4.77) running on a linux box happily bookmarks the page (poor person's database) without any problems. What does your browser want to bookmark? Just the index.pl?

    Regards... Stefan

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      The problem is the form has a method of post; so the node details are not on the URL (aka "GET" method) which is causing this behaviour...

      --
      RatArsed

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        Funny...
        I see the node and lastnode in my location field in netscape almost all the time. As far as I can remember the only exceptions from that are when I voted or posted an article or sth like that...

        Another funny thing is that you read this quite old node and I get a message in CB and thus can post an answer :-)
        All Hail To The Everything Engine :-)

        Regards... Stefan

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