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can you tell me a bit more details ? I'm really confused by the interface .. I thought I could just bookmark a node ... don't know how to do that .
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Re^3: bookmarking system for nodes on perlmonks
by Corion (Patriarch) on May 18, 2009 at 21:19 UTC
Re^3: bookmarking system for nodes on perlmonks
by jdporter (Paladin) on May 19, 2009 at 17:29 UTC
    I thought I could just bookmark a node ... don't know how to do that .

    It is very easy indeed. But first you have to turn on your "bookmarks nodelet". Actually it is called the "Personal nodelet", but you can think of it as a "bookmarks nodelet".

    To enable it, go to your Nodelet Settings. Yes, just click that link. (It will be easier if you open it in a separate tab/window.)

    Now find the row in the right-hand column named "Personal Nodelet", and enter a non-zero number in the space beside it. (This assumes that the "Use my frontpage nodelets everywhere" checkbox at the top is not checked. If it is checked, then do this in the left-hand column instead of the right-hand column.)

    And click Submit.

    Now you have your Personal Nodelet enabled, and you will see it in your nodelet bar at all times. Initially it contains no bookmarks. As you add bookmarks, you will see them listed in this nodelet.

    The Personal Nodelet has four links at the bottom: Edit, Add, Public, and Private. To add a bookmark, click the Add link.

    This will bookmark the current node (whichever one you are viewing at the time you click the link) in your Personal Nodelet.

    Please let me know if these instructions are unclear in any way.

    Between the mind which plans and the hands which build, there must be a mediator... and this mediator must be the heart.
      nice , and what do you think ? could it be simpler ?

      Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

      - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

        Could what be simpler? The instructions? Sure... But it would make more assumptions about what the reader knows about PerlMonks. I could say:

        1. Enable your Personal Nodelet
        2. Click the Add link (in the Personal Nodelet) on any page to bookmark that page.
        Could the process be simpler? Yes, it could be: the Personal Nodelet could be enabled by default for new users. That might not be a bad idea. But enabling the nodelet is already dead simple. And I don't believe bookmarking a page (i.e. adding a link) to the Personal Nodelet could be any simpler.

        Unfortunately, even things as simple as this are too much for some people.

        Between the mind which plans and the hands which build, there must be a mediator... and this mediator must be the heart.