Small #FediTip: if you encounter a message or thread that is in any way useful to you, bookmark it straight away.
Since the fediverse doesn't have full text searches, it will be very difficult to find that particular thing again a few days later. Especially if you cannot remember who posted it or it has no hashtags.
Periodically review your bookmarks to do something with them and you should be set.
@asmodai Ay, there's the rub!
Hopefully, it will be released soon!
@killyourfm Can you elaborate? Currently on Tusky and that only has bookmarks without any lists or categories. Haven't checked the advanced web view yet if that offers more.
All these different UIs to the fediverse, they all support a different set of features.
@asmodai It should be on your advanced web view (if I"m not mistaken, that's a universal web view feature).
I'm surprised Tusky doesn't have that.
@killyourfm Neither does the Mastodon advanced web view it seems. All I have here on the web and via Tusky is a singular bookmark, a toggle if you will. No additional functionality.
Definitely sounds like a useful feature, especially when you start to be here longer and longer.
It was also why I mentioned to periodically go through the bookmarks, otherwise they might just collect dust. 😅
@killyourfm I think we might have landed on two different topics?
I was explicitly talking about bookmarks. Everything I know and have clicked around show that bookmarks are a toggle on a message, that then show up under the Bookmarks entry in that screenshot you showed.
Judging from the highlight of your screenshot you are talking about Lists where you add accounts.
As far as I know, there is no overlap between the two functionalities.
@pikminlover @asmodai Sorry, that might not work as I realized that lists are for accounts and not messages.
Wish there was a way to organize bookmarks like that!
@JJBadger Not stupid at all, I'm afraid it very much depends on your client though.
On Tusky (Android), every post has a bookmark icon underneath it (🔖). Similarly with the Mastodon advanced web UI.
What are you using?
@JJBadger A quick glance through the code base (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios), seems to suggest that there should be bookmark support.
Ah, that was committed in September of this year, but seems the Mastodon iOS app has not had a release since June.
@asmodai @JJBadger I couldn’t find a way to bookmark in the Mastodon For iOS client, and switched to Metatext partly because of that.
It’s worth noting that the “official” client is the baby of the bunch and is missing a lot of features. There isn’t really anything special about its officialness either, since Mastodon itself is a federation with no official leader. It just has a stamp of approval from the main code-writer.
@JJBadger @asmodai Bookmarking a message is done differently in Apps and in the Web UI. If you are using the Web UI, I would suggest:
- first, if you have not already done so, to go in the settings and activate the advanced (multicolumn) UI;
- then, when you want to bookmark a message, click on it to have it displayed in the rightmost column. There, below the message , are the buttons to reply, boost, fav... and bookmark.
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Note that when a thread is displayed, only the currently selected message (the one in a bigger font) has the bookmark button. If the message you want to bookmark does not have the button and is not in a bigger font, just click on it, that'll select it and you'll see the bookmark button then.
@neverjim @JJBadger I will be the first to state that the web UI for lists is non-intuitive.
Note, this is on the advanced web interface. When you click on a list, it opens it in a column. Click on the three-slider icon at the top-right. Then click Edit list. This should pop up a window where you can start adding accounts to the list.
@neverjim You can do it with column pinning in the advanced web view though.
Search for a particular hashtag. In the result, click the hashtag. This opens the hashtag in a column. Click the three-slider icon top-right, select "+ Pin" and you now have a column that shows all the latest posts that match that hashtag. Once pinned, if you click that three-slider icon again, you can tweak and tune what you want it to match or explicitly not match.
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