1. Overview (FakeTag User Guide)

In this chapter, I will explain what the "bookmark-tagging functionality" offered by FakeTag really is and how it works.

1.1 The difference between folders and tags

There are two commonly used ways to organize bookmarks: folders and tags.

1.1.1 Folders

The screenshot below is an example of using folders to organize bookmarks. Conceptually, folders are containers for storing bookmarks, so if you think of folder names as labels to classify bookmarks, only one label can be associated with one bookmark.

┗ [F1: "News"]
   ┗ [B1: "U.K."]

1.1.2 Tags

Now, let's look at an example of tags: tags are conceptually attached to bookmarks, so if you think of tag names as labels to classify bookmarks, you can associate multiple labels with one bookmark.

[B1: "BBC"] ~ [T1: "News"][T2: "U.K."]

1.2 Using folders as tags

FakeTag achieves its bookmark-tagging functionality by utilizing folders provided by your browser. For example, suppose you tell FakeTag to bookmark the BBC homepage (https://www.bbc.com/) and add two tags, "News" and "U.K.". Then, a bookmark pointing to the URL https://www.bbc.com/ will be created in two folders, "News" and "U.K.", one in each. And because FakeTag is designed to treat multiple bookmarks pointing to the same URL as one "composite bookmark", the two folders, "News" and "U.K.", will look like "two tags attached to one bookmark".

Two bookmarks pointing to the same URL:

┣ [F1: "News"]
┃  ┗ [B1: "BBC"] (=> https://www.bbc.com/)
┗ [F2: "U.K."]
   ┗ [B2: "BBC"] (=> https://www.bbc.com/)

If you look at folders as tags:

[B1/B2: "BBC"] ~ [F1: "News"][F2: "U.K."]

The pros and cons of using folders as tags like the example above are:

Pros:

• After installing FakeTag, there is no need to create tags from scratch.
• Your browser will sync your tags for you (if auto-sync is enabled).
• No data will be lost even if you uninstall FakeTag.

Cons:

• It creates a lot of duplicate bookmarks (note that the maximum number of bookmarks the browser can auto-sync is 100,000).
• For technical reasons, sometimes you still need to think in terms of folders and bookmarks as you'll see in later chapters.

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