Feature Proposal: User Bookmarks for Better Usability

Motivation

A few versions back, TWiki introduced a <wikiname>LeftBar to keep track of favorite pages, or bookmarks. This was later used by the TopMenuSkin, which shows the bookmarks in the Account pulldown menu. Although a good start there are some drawbacks:

• No easy way to bookmark a page
• No easy way to remove or rearrange bookmarks
• Users need to be familiar with TML to create links

Description and Documentation

This proposal adds an easy to use bookmark feature to TWiki, replacing the <wikiname>LeftBar feature.

• Each user gets an optional <wikiname>Bookmarks page, based on a template page
• For logged in users, the Account pulldown menu has:
  • a "----- Bookmarks -----" menu item, leading to the <wikiname>Bookmarks page
  • a "Bookmark this page..." menu item to bookmark the current page
  • a list of up to 16 bookmarked pages
• Users can edit the bookmarks in the <wikiname>Bookmarks page using the edit table feature (add, delete, move bookmarks)

Screenshots

View bookmark page:

Edit bookmarks:

Examples

Impact

Implementation

-- Contributors: PeterThoeny - 2011-06-20

Discussion

This is now accepted by the 7 days feedback period.

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-06-30

This is now in SVN trunk.

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-07-02