Content bookmarks
XF has always made it super easy to find new content you've not yet read, and re-engage you with content you've already interacted with, but who here has ever read a post (or some other content) and wanted to come back to it later, or wanted to save a specific post so you can refer back to it in the future?
Of course there are lots of ways to solve this kind of problem. You could use the forum search, but that still relies on you having to remember you wanted to come back to it at some point, and you still need to remember specific keywords to find it. You could use browser bookmarks, but on different devices and different browsers that can be cumbersome. You could keep open all of the tabs you want to come back to at some point, but again different devices and browsers (and having to shut down Chrome for the 5th time that day because memory) makes it difficult.
I could also just try to remember but... wait, what was I saying again? Oh, right... bookmarks.
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Supported content types now have a bookmark icon.
Clicking the bookmark icon will instantly bookmark that content. Which is great, but occasionally you might want to add some additional context to help you locate that bookmark again in the future.
The message text will be displayed when viewing your bookmarks (otherwise a snippet of the content is displayed instead) and labels are a way to categorise your bookmarks (similar to tags).
Of course adding a note or labels is totally optional, in which case you would just click out of the tooltip to close it.
So how is content you've bookmarked accessed?
Your bookmarks are available no matter where you are on the forum. Simply click the bookmark icon to see a list of your bookmarks:
From here you can go straight to the content, or click the icon for more options:
"Copy to clipboard" copies the link of the content to the clipboard, which is useful if you want to share a link to the content for any reason.
In terms of filtering, you can click the label on any of the bookmarks to go to a list of all bookmarks with that label, or you can search directly. Clicking on the filter input will show you all of your existing labels, and just clicking one will apply that label filter immediately. You can also start typing to er... filter the filter list.
Of course you can also access your full list of bookmarks from your account page:
Initially we're supporting the following content types:
- Threads
- Posts
- Nodes (only page nodes exposed)
- Media items (requires XFMG 2.1)
- Albums (requires XFMG 2.1)
- Resources (requires XFRM 2.1)
- Resource updates (requires XFRM 2.1)
But, as ever, developers can very easily add bookmarks support to their own content types.
(the bug submitter)
. When the 1ST beta will be released?
