macOS Sierra: The Missing Manual

Bookmarks, Favorites, and Top Sites

Another way to begin your web session is to click a bookmark.

In any web browser, bookmarks are essential. They represent sites you want to visit again later. By picking one from a list, you save yourself the trouble of searching the web or typing out an address.

Safari happens to be overrun with systems of adding and choosing bookmarks; you can’t move your cursor without bumping into one. Read on.

Adding a Bookmark

When you find a web page you might like to visit again, do yourself a favor: Bookmark it.

Here’s how:

• Press -D, or choose Bookmarks→Add Bookmark. Proceed as shown in Figure 19-3.

  

  You also have to specify where you want to save your new bookmark; as you can see, Safari offers several options.

  There’s the Bookmarks menu, or any folders you’ve set up inside it.

  There are the Favorites, a special set of bookmarks that you think you’ll use a lot. They get their own special screen and their own special bar, as you’ll read in a moment.

  There are the Top Sites (Tip).

  Finally, there’s the master list, the Bookmarks list in the Sidebar; as you can see by (a) in Figure 19-4, this list lets you further categorize your bookmarks by putting them into folders.

  Figure 19-3. When you add a bookmark, Safari offers to memorize this web page’s name, or a shorter name ...