Paste multiple bookmarks into Safari

Aug 31, '04 09:26:00AM

Contributed by: dashard

I just discovered that Safari will allow the pasting of multiple bookmarks into a new bookmark folder, and it became a HUGE boon to productivity for me. In my case, it went like this .... I was reading my weekly Apple Developer Connection email (which I take in plain-text, thank you), and lamented that I wanted to save all of the links for later browsing, but basically needed to revisit the email each time and poke around for the link of interest.

Recalling that CopyPaste-X has a feature called the URL Extractor, in which all text is stripped except for what it recognizes as URLs, I applied it to the Dev Connection email and recieved a tidy list of 19 URLs. I copied these to my clipboard, created a new Bookmark folder within my Developer bookmarks folder in Safari, and with the new folder still selected/highlighted, I tried a Command-V, just for fun.

Voila! All of the URLs pasted exactly as would be expected, and Safari even did its best to name each one, utilizing either the domain name (if that was all there was to the URL) or the part of the URL after the initial domain (if there was one). Fantastic!

This is where the developers at Apple truly shine, in anticipating every little nuance of the user experience and making sure that there are hooks in place if you want to take advantage of them. I know that this tip leverages a third party utility in my case, but it remains valid in that it is an incredible timesaver if you happen to have a list of links on your clipboard -- say from an old bookmarks html file? This is a bit of an inverse of this hint.

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