Wonder2,
Thanks for getting back to me again. I believe that the suggestion I
was going to make is browser-version dependent, and works only with
older versions of Internet Explorer - 5 and earlier, so I'll withdraw
and leave this for another researcher. (Mainly because I leave for
vacation in a couple of hours and won't have a computer connection for
about a week; this is one I'd love to chase up and I'll be interested
in seeing if anyone does come up with anything.)
Couple of comments, though. First: it's always a good idea to add to
Favorites any sites you feel useful, now or possibly in the future. If
you don't use them, you've lost nothing except a very small amount of
memory if you do use them you may have saved a lot of time.
When you Add a Favorite, I suggest you check the suggested name : it's
usually the page title as given in the blue bar right at the top of
your screen (blue unless you have changed your display defaults).
Many titles are self-explanatory, and that's good; many titles are
useless (eg. Home Page, Welcome, Netscape, etc). Edit the title you
give this Favorite so it becomes meaningful, will mean something to
you when you find it in the list in a month or a year's time.
Second comment/ suggestion: it is worth classifying your Favorites,
making New Folders and filing new favorites into the folders as you go
along, rather than trying to file them later. That's a time saver,
because if you aren't sure later where they belong, you have to
re-visit them... Your folder titles will depend on your interests, so
could be Career, Computers, Media, News Personal, Travel, and so on -
you can sub-divide the folders too, so Travel might include Air, Land,
Sea, Hotels, Car hire, names of individual States or Countries, and so
on.
Third comment: you can also save the actual searches, using the File
>> Save As feature. This will preserve your search terms and results,
and you can come back to it whenever you want to recreate a search;
do it again (on a live search page rather than your saved search page)
and you may be able to see if there are changes, new sites found,
other sites dropped. If the results are important, as against just
the search terms, I'd suggest checking your search engines preferences
(if available) and maximising the number of hits displayed per page.
(You can extend Google's display to 100 results per page, for
instance).
Sorry I can't be more helpful; let's hope another researcher can be.
Best, r2l |
