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Concierge's drawer contains three views:
• Scratchpad Store and manage web URLs, email links, Address Book cards and groups, and links to files and folders. Group items into subfolders, or allow Concierge to "focus" the list to those items related to web site you're currently visiting. Annotate your saved items with comments, then find anything through a convenient search field located at the top of the drawer.
• Bookmarks Not only do you have a single, hierarchical list of all of the bookmarks Safari is saving for you, you can use this list to edit or modify those bookmarks without taking up the entire browser window (note: the ability to modify Safari's saved bookmarks is not available to unregistered copies of Concierge). Quickly search for bookmarks using the always-available search field.
• History Your browsing history shown in a whole new way. Group the visited links by date or domain, and sort them. Like the other views, a search field is provided to let you easily find that site you visited once upon a time.
Concierge is shareware. Unregistered copies are fully-featured but with three limitations:
1. Concierge bookmarks are not saved between Safari sessions.
2. The Bookmarks view in Concierge, which shows the bookmarks Safari is tracking, does not allow editing. Registered copies allow full management of Safari's bookmarks through that view.
3. Only those history items from the current day are displayed.
Concierge's Scratchpad can handle several different kinds of links:
• URL bookmarks Regular bookmarks that we've all come to know, love, and collect until we have an unmanageable mess.
• Email links These are normally found as simple mailto: links on web pages. Concierge expands on the simple variety by allowing you to specify additional primary, copy and blind-copy recipients as well as an email subject. Clicking on an email link brings up your email client with this information already filled in.
• File aliases Drag files and folders from the Finder to make them easily accessible.
• Notes While not really a link of any kind, a Concierge note gives you a place to store short messages and have them readily available. Let the mouse hover over the note's title in the drawer and the message will appear as a tooltip -- you don't even have to open the note to read it.
• Address Book cards and groups You can drag your cards and groups from Address Book and into the Scratchpad. Cards appear as they do in Address Book's list view; groups appear as folders with the group's members inside. Double-clicking a card will display its contents within Address Book. Editing cards also happen in Address Book rather than Concierge. You can send email to the people or organizations represented by the cards from with Concierge using the Send Email menu item.
Each Safari window gets its own Concierge drawer, but the drawers all share their links. Items added in one drawer will appear in other drawers, for example. Changes made to the Bookmarks tab view are also immediately reflected in Safari, so you can use the Bookmarks view to manage your regular Safari links.
Links find their way into the drawer via normal drag-and-drop gestures. Note items, email links and subfolders can be created via Concierge's menu (installed in Safari's menu bar), with the action menu (the little gear icon), or with a contextual menu that appears in the drawer itself. Notes can also be created by dragging and dropping text into Scratchpad. Items placed in the Scratchpad or Bookmarks view can be edited and deleted, again via one of the menus or buttons. Double-clicking an item "opens" it in whatever context is appropriate.
All three lists can be searched using the search field at the top of the view. This works like Spotlight in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), where found items are updated continuously as you type. The last 20 searches are remembered and accessed via the popup menu within the search field.
Have you ever wanted to add comments to your bookmarks to remind you of something? You can, with Concierge. You can annotate virtually any item in either the Scratchpad or Bookmarks views. Your comment appears in a tooltip when you hover over the link. Since the search feature also looks inside comments, you can more easily find that obscure link by simply searching for a word within the comment.
The Scratchpad works like a generic bookmarks list, but it also gives you an added layer of organization if you want it. Concierge can automatically create top-level folders that loosely match the site you're currently browsing in Safari. Concierge can then optionally "focus" on that subfolder, temporarily excluding the others from view. This gives you a place to more easily see bookmarks and other links pertaining to just that one site.
Within each site folder, Concierge optionally creates two "Smart Folders" named Related Bookmarks and Related History. The contents of these folders are not changeable. They are populated by automatically searching your Safari bookmarks and history links as well as your Address Book with the web site's name. The icons for the Smart Folders will change according to whether they have anything listed within them: Green indicates that the folder is empty, orange indicates that there is at least one enclosed item. A preference option controls whether the Smart Folders are created or not.
Your surfing history is available in the History tab. Concierge allows you to change the way the links are grouped within the display. There are five possibilities, making the display quite flexible.
New in version 1.4.9:
• Bug Fix: Fixed a rather egregious error introduced in the 1.4.8 release -- Concierge would refuse to search anything in the Scratchpad, Bookmarks or History views. How that bug made it past testing, I'll never know.
• Bug Fix: Adjusted the validation in the registration dialog window so that it isn't quite so picky about the order in which you enter the information.
System requirements:
Concierge requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later and Safari 1.2 or later. Intel and Safari 3 compatible!
System support:
PPC/Intel
$10.00 Shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.bti.net/concierge/index.php
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