Board Suggestion

One thing you can do to make it easier to find a post later is to add a short comment. Then the entire discussion will show up under " topics Susan has participated in" on your profile.

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When I find a post/ thread I know (or suspect) I want to save for the future, I simply copy the internet address of the thread (i.e. this one would be https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/general-europe/board-suggestion) and send it to myself via e-mail (with an easy to search title). Very simple solution. Searching my e-mail is a lot easier than using the search on this site.

I do the same as Agnes and I go one step further. I have set up a folder in my email for LINKS. As soon as I email one to myself I go in and move it to that folder so they are all in one place and easy to find.

in whatever browser you use, enable the bookmarks toolbar, create a folder called Rick Steeves and save bookmarked web pages to it

Hi,

If I come across something I really want to save, such as a driving route in Slovenia I came across a few months back, I copy the text and save it on my computer. I have several travel folders on my computer and I simply name the file that I copied and its there when I need it.

Paul

What Paul said, but our folders are more detailed. Under our bookmark Travel folder we have sub folders with the names of the countries. If it is a trip already in the planning stage the folder name is the year and the country. We save all links from posts or other web sites in these folders. We may never go to some of these places but at least the links are organized so if we do begin to plan a trip we can find them.

You could just select the thread (or parts of it), copy it, and paste it into a Word document. Create a folder on your computer's C-drive for travel articles.

Hi all,
I just wanted to note that we've witnessed this request and it is noted. I (personally) do have a broader plan with regard to a sort of bookmarking functionality, though it is realistically a ways away as other significant features on my wish list need to be built first to make this work.

In the meantime, and while I understand that this isn't quite sufficient, my recommendation would be to learn the ins and outs of the Bookmarking features already available to you in your web browser (Internet Explorer calls them "Favorites"). Aside from bookmarking web pages in general, you should be able to organize your bookmarks into folders so that you can keep your Travel Forum bookmarks together. If you need help with that, you can always Google something like "how to use bookmarks in chrome." You would, of course, replace "chrome" with the name of the web browser you are using (Firefox? Safari?).

Edit: It looks like "ramblin' on" wrote his/her post suggesting bookmarks faster than me (*hat tip). That's what I get for stepping away to get coffee. :)

It cant hurt to ask :) I am glad to know that it is on a wish list. Also glad to know there is a wish list! :)

Thank you all for your suggestions. I like the one about looking through the threads that you participated in.

Most of the time, I will look up the place and pop it into Pinterest and save it there.

My bookmarks are already out of control. While it is not practical for me, it may be for others.

So all in all good suggestions!

"That's what I get for stepping away to get coffee." Without coffee, it wouldn't be called "being at work". It would be called "a nap".

I do a combination of what Agnes does, and what Robert does. I save the threads by sending an email to myself, with the thread's URL/link. More recently, I copy/paste the thread to a document. Remove comments that don't have information in them I wish to keep. Clean up the rest. Print the page. Take the printed page, use a 3-ring punch on the left side, put into a notebook. I have 2" notebooks by subject. Different countries have different notebooks. When I find newspaper or magazine articles online they get copy/pasted to make a document, printed, put into the notebook. The notebooks have dividers in them, to separate regions, or hotels from restaurants/cafes.

This is because I began to have so many "favorites", bookmarked sites, and from "me to me" emails with articles, and folders. It was all too much. Also, those links expire to some of the online articles. You click on your "saved" link to go back a year or two later when you need the information, and the link has expired/doesn't exist any longer.

This way, you can sit down with your notebook and Rick Steves guidebook to begin to plan your trip.

I have hundreds of bookmarks - I use folders and subfolders and subsubfolders and find things easily. Much the same way I organize my digital documents.

For tips and snippets of information within a thread, I'll cut/paste to a word doc and store it with other stuff on the same theme/subject. Then I don't have to wonder a year later why I bookmarked a very long thread.

This is all great info. Myself, many times I read about a place, tour, etc., and forget to save it and forget where it came from. I will start going to the links and saving them!

You do a great job Nicho... I mean Webmaster!! =]