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This topic enables you to man­age all your web book­marks and your online services.

Key fea­tures of the Book­marks topic

  • touch­point to the Peo­ple + Ser­vices topic

Using Book­marks touchpoints

Touch­points allow rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion to be shared seam­lessly between Book­marks and the Peo­ple + Ser­vices topic. Exam­ple: You could define access infor­ma­tion for ser­vices such as your elec­tric util­ity account directly in Peo­ple + Ser­vices. Via the touch­point to that topic, the infor­ma­tion is also acces­si­ble from Book­marks. Or, you could define the billing and pay­ment web­site for your ISP account directly in Book­marks and, via the touch­point to that topic, the infor­ma­tion is also acces­si­ble from Peo­ple + Services.

How do I use Bookmarks?

These sec­tions are avail­able in the Book­marks topic view:

  • Online Ser­vices — touch­point to the Online Ser­vices cat­e­gory of ser­vices in the Peo­ple + Ser­vices topic
  • All Book­marks — all links to web pages
  • Cat­e­gories for Book­marks — all Life­Topix book­marks, sorted by category

Online Ser­vices

Online ser­vices” are internet-related prod­ucts or labor you receive from com­pa­nies, orga­ni­za­tions, or indi­vid­u­als. Web host­ing, inter­net access, and photo shar­ing are all exam­ples of online services.

Online Ser­vices is a touch­point to the Online Ser­vices cat­e­gory in the Peo­ple + Ser­vices topic. This means that online ser­vices defined here will appear as ser­vices in the Online Ser­vices cat­e­gory in the Peo­ple + Ser­vices topic. Tap Online Ser­vices to go to its view which con­tains the fol­low­ing sections:

Online Ser­vices:

  • If there are no online ser­vices defined, this sec­tion will con­tain only a but­ton titled Tap to add: Ser­vice. Tap that but­ton or tap  in the title bar to define a new service.
  • If there are online ser­vices defined, this sec­tion shows all those ser­vices, sorted alpha­bet­i­cally by default. Tap Sort to alter­nate between sort­ing ser­vices by date mod­i­fied (with the most recently mod­i­fied one first) and alpha­bet­i­cally by title. Each ser­vice includes the service’s name, its ser­vice provider, and either its cat­e­gory or update time, depend­ing on which sort mode is cur­rently active. Tap Add in the sec­tion header or tap  in the title bar to define a new ser­vice. To edit a ser­vice, tap it, mod­ify the set­tings, and tap Save. To delete a ser­vice, tap it and then tap  at the bot­tom of the view.

All Online Ser­vices Ser­vices: Tap here to view all online ser­vices in all cat­e­gories and subcategories.

Sub­cat­e­gories for Online Ser­vices Ser­vices: This sec­tion shows all online ser­vices sub­cat­e­gories, sorted alpha­bet­i­cally. Tap Add in the sec­tion header to define a new online ser­vices sub­cat­e­gory at this level; tap Man­age in the sec­tion header to edit, rename, hide or delete the exist­ing sub­cat­e­gories at this level; or tap a sub­cat­e­gory to dis­play the cor­re­spond­ing view for that subcategory.

All Book­marks

Tap All Book­marks to go to its view. If you have not cre­ated any book­marks, then only the pre­set book­marks are listed. If you have cre­ated book­marks, then all book­marks are listed, sorted alpha­bet­i­cally by default. Tap Sort to alter­nate between sort­ing book­marks by date mod­i­fied (with the most recently mod­i­fied one first) and alpha­bet­i­cally by title. Each book­mark includes the bookmark’s dis­play name, URL, and either its cat­e­gory or update time, depend­ing on which sort mode is cur­rently active.

Tap Add in the sec­tion header or tap  in the title bar to cre­ate a new book­mark. If you do not have net­work access, enter the URL and tap Save to sim­ply save the book­mark with­out try­ing to load the page. (The title of the book­mark will be set to the URL.) If you do have net­work access, enter the URL and tap Go to load the web page. You can then tap Save to save the book­mark. If the page loads suc­cess­fully, and the title infor­ma­tion was set by the orig­i­nal web page devel­oper, then that infor­ma­tion is saved as the title of the bookmark.

When you are cre­at­ing a new book­mark, if you have net­work access and you have spec­i­fied a Search URL in the My Set­tings sec­tion of Set­tings, then the browser will come up start­ing at your Search URL. This enables you to uti­lize your favorite search engine to search for book­marks in the cases where you do not already know the exact URLs.

To go to a book­mark, tap the book­mark. If you have net­work con­nec­tiv­ity, the web page will load.

To edit a book­mark, tap its , mod­ify the set­tings, and tap Save. To delete a book­mark, tap its  and then tap .

Book­marks can be asso­ci­ated with Projects, Prod­ucts, Events, Trips, Vis­i­tors, Out­ings, Places, Ser­vices, Ser­vice Providers, Assets, and Subjects

Cat­e­gories for Bookmarks

Cat­e­gories are avail­able for use with book­marks. You can cre­ate, mod­ify, hide, or delete cat­e­gories via Life­Topix Set­tings or directly from the Cat­e­gories for Book­marks sec­tion by tap­ping the Man­age but­ton. When a book­mark cat­e­gory is deleted, it is com­pletely removed from Life­Topix. When a book­mark cat­e­gory is hid­den, it no longer appears in the Cat­e­gories for Book­marks sec­tion, but it remains defined in Life­Topix and is still avail­able in the cat­e­gory list when you are defin­ing a new book­mark. Note that book­mark cat­e­gories that are in use or serve as touch­points to another topic can­not be deleted or hidden.

To cre­ate a new book­mark cat­e­gory, tap Add in the Cat­e­gories for Book­marks sec­tion toolbar.

To mark a book­mark cat­e­gory hid­den, or to mod­ify its name or descrip­tion, tap Man­age in the Cat­e­gories for Book­marks sec­tion tool­bar, then tap the category’s .

To delete a book­mark cat­e­gory, tap Man­age in the Cat­e­gories for Book­marks sec­tion tool­bar, then tap the category’s . If the cat­e­gory is not in use and it does not serve as a touch­point to another topic, then it can be deleted and  will appear in the bot­tom tool­bar. Tap  to delete the category.

Tap a cat­e­gory in the Cat­e­gories for Book­marks sec­tion to go to the book­marks view for that cat­e­gory. If there are no book­marks and no sub­cat­e­gories defined in that cat­e­gory, help appears in order to get you started. If there are book­marks defined in that cat­e­gory, they are all shown in a sec­tion whose behav­ior is described in the All Book­marks sec­tion above. If there are sub­cat­e­gories defined in that cat­e­gory, they are all shown in a sec­tion whose behav­ior is described imme­di­ately above.

2 Comments


  1. Jackie Lightner
    Oct 22, 2011

    How do I use Bookmarks


    • Steve
      Oct 24, 2011

      Hi Jackie,

      When you are in the Book­marks topic, you can cre­ate a new book­mark by tap­ping + in the right-hand side of the upper title bar. Doing so brings up the web site spec­i­fied as the search URL in your Life­Topix Set­tings (Life­Topix Set­tings > My Set­tings > Adding Book­marks). By default, the search URL is set to http://www.google.com.

      If you have inter­net access and you know the URL of the site for which you want to set a book­mark, sim­ply type that URL in the URL bar at the top of the view. Tap Go and the tar­get site will load. After the tar­get site loads, tap Save to cre­ate the bookmark.

      If you have inter­net access and you do not know the URL of the site for which you want to set a book­mark, then you can uti­lize your search engine to help you locate the URL for the site. To do this, type some rel­e­vant search terms in the search box of your search engine. Once your search engine presents its search results, tap your tar­get site in the search results to cause the tar­get site to load. After the tar­get site loads, tap Save to cre­ate the bookmark.

      Load­ing the site before you tap Save does two things:

      1) ver­i­fies the cor­rect­ness of the URL
      2) loads the descrip­tive sum­mary text asso­ci­ated with the tar­get web site, pre­vent­ing you from hav­ing to do that yourself

      If you do not have inter­net access, then you will sim­ply have to type the URL of your desired tar­get site in the URL bar at the top of the view, then tap Save.

      Once you have cre­ated the book­mark, you can edit its infor­ma­tion (Descrip­tion, Dis­play As, Cat­e­gories, etc.) or delete the book­mark alto­gether by tap­ping the > next to the book­mark from the All Book­marks view. Mod­ify the desired infor­ma­tion and then tap Save to make changes, or tap the trash can icon in the right-hand side of the lower tool­bar to delete the bookmark.

      When you edit the details of a book­mark, you can also store optional login infor­ma­tion (user­name and pass­word) for the site. Life­Topix can­not auto­mat­i­cally log you in, but this is a con­ve­nient loca­tion to store that kind of infor­ma­tion for your future ref­er­ence. If you have a PIN set via Life­Topix My Set­tings, your pass­word will not be dis­played in clear text.

      If this doc­u­men­ta­tion is not clear or does not answer your ques­tions, please let us know directly via con­tact to our sup­port group here so that we can work with you to iden­tify how best to improve our description.

      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow

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