Saving/storing specific/interesting posts

[ffs]

Forum URL: theotherfrenchforum.freeforums.net/

It often happens that a single post in a multi-post thread contains something that you might like to refer to again in the future, eg a useful website, a method for shelling eggs, the difference between bees, wasps, and hornets. Is there a means of saving just those individual posts in a single place? On another type of forum, such a thing is possible using an option called Bookmark, but obviously that term wouldn't work here.

[Chris]

You can use your browser's bookmark/favorites feature to bookmark a link to the specific post by clicking on that cog menu to get the link

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Edit:

It just occurred to me that selected text can be dragged and drop so you could drag the highlighted URL to your bookmarks bar for quick bookmarking

SPOILER: Click to show

The only gripe I would have with this feature is the lack of an actual link that you could drag to your bookmarks bar for example or right click to perform other actions:



<script>
/* Add actual links to the Link to Post dialogue - (Install: Global Header) */
(function(){
$(document).on('dialogopen', '#copy-link-container', function(event){
[$('#thread-post-link',this), post = $('#post-link',this)].forEach(function($input,i,a){
let link = $input.parent().prev();
let thread = pb.item('thread',pb.item('post', +$input.val().match(/\/post\/(\d+)/)[1]).thread_id)
link.html(link.html().replace(/Link/,function(){
return '<a href="'+ $input.val() +'" class="norewrite bookmark-link" title="'+ pb.text.escape_html(thread.subject) +'"><span class="hide" style="font-size:1px;letter-spacing:-1;">'+ thread.subject +' </span></a>';
})).css({"margin-top": i== 1?'1em':'inherit'})
.next().css({"margin-bottom":i==1?'1em':'inherit'})
})
$(this).dialog('option', 'height', 'auto');
$(this).dialog('option', 'position', 'static')
})
$('head').append("<style>.bookmark-link{font-size:1px; letter-spacing:-1;}.bookmark-link:after{content:'Link'; font-size:1rem;letter-spacing:normal; font-weight:700;}</style>")
})();
</script>

[ffs]

So browser bookmarking is the only solution, then? That's still something that didn't occur to me, so thanks for that, Chris .

ETA: Yep, that works.

[Scott]

ffs, while you can bookmark a thread within the forum, bookmarking an individual post is not possible. So I've label this as a feature request.

[ffs]

Aug 22, 2021 6:27:52 GMT -8 Scott said:

ffs , while you can bookmark a thread within the forum, bookmarking an individual post is not possible. So I've label this as a feature request.

Thanks, Scott. Does that mean you can understand what I was getting at?

[Chris]

Shared (cloud storage) bookmarks across all your devices is a thing now in all major browsers is what I was getting at

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Edit:

A couple advantages of using your browser as your bookmark repository rather than PB's built-in bookmarking:

1. The ability to organize into subset folders that make more sense to you rather than wasting time looking through an unorganized/unsorted jumble of links (we were told user-defined labels would eventually be added [just like in PMs] but that never came to fruition)
2. The ability to rename bookmarks rather than accept a poorly chosen thread title or a title not reflecting the unrelated discussion in the thread that caused you to save that particular link in the first place

[Scott]

Aug 22, 2021 7:23:24 GMT -8 ffs said:

Aug 22, 2021 6:27:52 GMT -8 Scott said:

ffs , while you can bookmark a thread within the forum, bookmarking an individual post is not possible. So I've label this as a feature request.

Thanks, Scott . Does that mean you can understand what I was getting at?

Yup