Bookmarklets are small JavaScript programs which are run either from either a browser's bookmark list or personal toolbar. For more info, see http://www.Bookmarklets.com and http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/ (squarefree is more up to date).

Here's some TWikiBookmarklets which I've knocked up. To install them on your browser, click and drag the links below to your personal toolbar (links toolbar on IE). You will then have a new "button" on your web browser. Alternatively, you can add them to your bookmarks/favourites.

To use the bookmarklet, select text on a webpage, then click on the bookmarklet to jump to the Wiki page for the selected text. If you don't select any text before clicking on the bookmarklet, a pop-up window appears in which you can enter text for the page title. Any space, punctuation or other non-alphanumeric characters are stripped.

To support different TWiki usage styles, the three bookmarklets below vary in their target window (i.e. whether you get a new window or not).

I suggest you test them to work out which one which suits you best, then edit your bookmarks/favourites to rename it to "Jump" or "TWiki". You'll almost certainly want to edit the value of the "base" variable in the bookmarklet code to reflect the TWiki system you're using - again you can do this from edit bookmarks/favourites function of your browser. The default value of "base" points to the TWiki.org Test web.

N.B. These have been tested with Netscape 4.7, and also with IE 5.0, JavaScript is notoriously fickle, so please let me know about any cross-browser problems.

• - Jump to a TWiki Page within the current window -
• - Jump to a TWiki Page in a new TWiki window. This window is shared between different invocations of the bookmarklet -
• - Jump to a TWiki page in a new window, this window is unique to this page name (i.e. you can select other text, jump, and not disturb your 1st window)

Any bug fixes, comments etc. are more than welcome.

-- AndyPryke - 13 Apr 2002

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Here are a couple for TWiki power users tired of scrolling down to click Edit, Preview Changes, and Submit Changes. I put these in a folder on my personal toolbar. I'm mostly in Mac OS X these days, and I used QuicKeys X's Menu Selection feature to assign a keystroke to each of these. (I wish browsers made it possible to assign a keystroke to a bookmark — especially ones beginning "javascript:" )

• Edit Current Topic
• Preview/Submit (previews if editing; submits if previewing — actually what it does is submit the first form on the page)

-- MitchellModel - 01 Dec 2002

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These look very nice! TWikiAsABookmarkManager is another related topic. As I noted there, Web Assistant is being developed by a friend of mine. I used to use Hot Links which as nice. I am also interested in a tangentially related MyTWikiOrg.

-- GrantBow - 15 Jan 2003

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I used a similar technique in BookmarkSharingWithTWiki.

Darn - I wish that I had read this page first. But, twas not a question of not having looked - I dd not know the search terms until later.

-- AndyGlew - 22 Aug 2006