If you take a look at the bookmarks activeRoll on s l a m's home page, or at this bookmarks outline, you'll notice that most of the bookmarked links start with a 'collapsed' outline wedge. Expanding the line will reveal a one line comment for each link.

Adding comments is in my opinion one of activeBookmarks nicest feature.

If you are using Mozilla, it's possible to add a description in addition to the title and link properties of each bookmark, but the user interface is complicated.

If you are using Internet Explorer on MacOS, adding descriptions works almost the same, except for a small catch: when you re-open the bookmark's information box to modify the description, the text has disappeared. Anything you type will replace the current description.

If you are using Internet Explorer on Windows, then you're out of luck, there are no provisions for descriptions in the user interface.

In any case, all descriptions you manage to enter using your browser's interface will appear as comments in the outlined version.

But there's more. Since the outlined version produced by activeRenderer is an OPML file, there's nothing preventing you from editing it with a true outliner such as the one provided with Radio.

Adding comments is as easy as adding child nodes to the bookmark nodes, and saving the new version.

Those comments will be kept every time activeRenderer synchronizes the outlined version with the original browser version. How cool is that ?

I've tracked down and eliminated a couple of small bugs in the way activeRenderer was converting bookmark descriptions these last 2 days. In the process, the version number got bumped to 1.1.1.

If you have aR's auto-update preference checked, then you will get the latest version the next time you start Radio.

If not, but have registered your copy, use the Tools / activeRenderer / Update menu in the Radio application to retrieve the latest parts.

If not of the above suits you, you can still download the latest code from here.

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