Introduction
Welcome to the Tidy Favorites introduction. This guide has been developed to overview of Tidy Favorites. ( Pro Version was used in this introduction.)
Tidy Favorites was developed to simplify the
generation and management of PC browser
bookmarks. Its intuitive Graphic User Interface
(GUI) has been designed to minimize the
management task and maximize the PC users
experience with Internet navigation to web sites
that are often visited. Tidy Favorites is simply
a browser bookmark management tool that is so
easy to use bookmarks may be added or deleted
with such ease the user can spend more time
enjoying the educational and entertainment
values of the Internet versus spending time
managing the bookmarks themselves. Whether the
bookmark quantity is small or extremely large
the degree of "bookmark management" only varies
slightly.
The image below depicts a screen shot of a user
with a large bookmark configuration. Over 300
bookmarks on 16 tabs. We have provided this
image to demonstrate that even though Tidy
Favorites is very easy to use, it is also a
powerful bookmark manager.
Advantages
Tidy Favorites offers features and functionality
that provide advantages that surpass traditional
bookmark management and some recent other
programs techniques for managing bookmarks. The
powerful and user friendly design makes it
perfect for the novice and power user.
1.) Bookmark Integration – Existing browser
bookmarks may be transitioned to the Tidy
Favorites page by simply using "Drag and Drop"
or site visitation followed by a single click
"Add" button. In a very short time all of your
existing bookmarks can be fully integrated into
Tidy Favorites without having to re-visit each
site by dragging and then dropping existing
browser bookmarks onto the Tidy Favorites page.
This eliminates the need to manually enter
bookmarks with multiple mouse clicks and
character entry names. Combine this with the
fact that any new bookmarks are added with a
single click to the "Add" button and then
dragged from the sidebar to the Tidy Favorites
page means that your bookmark configuration will
be accurate, up to date and easily accessible in
a very short time.
The first image below depicts an example of
"Drag & Drop" using Microsoft Internet Explorer
7. The second image and sequence of images
after depict adding a bookmark by using the "+"
(Add Bookmark) toolbar button using Microsoft
Internet Explorer 7.
2.) Visual Identification – Bookmarks
on the Tidy Favorites page are quickly
identified by immediate visual recognition of
what the actual web page looks like versus
reading a text representation of a web site. The
human mind is much quicker to recognize the
thumbnail/bookmark in this fashion.
To further assist in quick recognition the
thumbnail created on the Tidy Favorites page can
be customized by using the "Cut Tool"
(Zoom Feature) that permits the user to focus in
on a particular part of a web page that will
further decrease the amount of time required to
identify a bookmark. Common practice is to zoom
in on a web site’s logo or text by clicking on
the "cut tool" icon. Use the "+" to zoom in, "-"
to zoom out or scroll the mouse back and forth
until the desired size is achieved.
3.) Quick Accessibility – Bookmarks
are quickly accessed by selecting the
appropriate "Tab" located at the bottom of the
Tidy Favorites page. User Tab(s) "naming and
categorization" can make a bookmark just two
clicks away from site visitation. Even
sophisticated configurations containing
"Folders", as demonstrated in the Features and
Functionality Video
Demonstration on the website main page,
within a Tab(s) are no more than three clicks
away. Folders added to a Tab(s) can increase the
quantity of bookmarks tremendously giving the
user a customized library of bookmarks.
Examples of using Folders are provided in the
two images below. The first image displays a tab
with the Folder "Closed" and the second image
displays a Folder "Open".
Why would I add a folder to Tidy Favorites ?
One Example Reason - Adding folders to
Tidy Favorites pages will significantly increase
the number of thumbnails in your configuration.
There is a finite amount of space available on
your PC display depending upon its size. The
size of your display regulates the size of the
Tidy Favorites page. If you add a single folder
to a Tidy Favorites page you have essentially
added another page to your thumbnail/bookmarks
configuration.
Example, if you originally have 10 thumbnails on
a Tidy Favorites page and then replace each
thumbnail with a folder that contains another 10
thumbnails you have just created a configuration
of 100 thumbnails in the amount of space that
used to occupy 10 thumbnails. "Naming each
folder" allows you to properly organize your
bookmarks
Another Example Reason - You have a Tidy
Favorites page dedicated to your favorite
restaurants. By adding "Folders" to the page you
can organize all of your favorite restaurants by
the type of food they serve. Depending upon how
you feel that day you can select a restaurant
from whichever category you desire. The
thumbnails located in the folders can contain
the restaurants web site, telephone
directory/telephone number, a Google map for
driving directions to email to a friend. The use
of folders is almost limitless !
4.) Thumbnail Sizing and Positioning –
Thumbnails can be sized large or small depending
upon how many thumbnails the user wants to place
on a tab page. Thumbnails larger in size will
reduce the quantity of bookmarks permitted and
smaller thumbnails will permit a larger quantity
to be added to the tabbed page. Users with
visual impairments will enjoy the ability to
create a large thumbnail that is very easy to
see when compared to the traditional text
representation of a bookmark and users without
impairments will enjoy the ability to create a
very large number of thumbnails per tab page.
Tidy Favorites has been designed to accommodate
a larger more diverse user audience than any
other program of its kind!
The image below depicts how the thumbnails can
be sized by the user.
5.) Search Panel – In the Freeware version the Search Panel comes with three search buttons: Google Search, Google Images Search and Wiki Search. The Pro version permits the user to configure additional Search Buttons.
Freeware Version / Three Search Buttons
Pro Version Before Addition
Pro Version Configuring Yahoo Search Button
Pro Version After Addition of Yahoo Search Button
We hope this introduction to Tidy Favorites has been useful. If you have questions or seek additional guidance after reviewing the web pages suggested at the beginning of this guide, please feel free to seek assistance by using the links below.