This chapter describes the options page of FakeTag.
5.1 Opening the options page
5.1.1 From the toolbar
Click the "puzzle piece" icon on the toolbar to display a list of installed extensions, and click the "⋮" icon to display a menu for performing operations related to FakeTag. If you have the "
" icon placed on the toolbar, right-clicking on it will display the same menu. Then, select "Options" from the menu to open the options page.
5.1.2 From the extension management page
Open the extension management page (chrome://extensions) and click the "Details" button in the "FakeTag" section to display the details page. Then click "Extension options" to open the options page.
5.2 How to use the options page
Select a category from the menu on the left side of the options page and the corresponding subpage will appear on the right.
Clicking "Open bookmark manager" will open the bookmark manager.
5.2.1 "Address bar search" subpage
5.2.1.1 Search operators
In the "Search operators" section, you can change the characters (symbols) used as search operators.
Click the "Edit" button to reveal an input box where you can change the search operator. Click the "Save" button or press Enter to save your changes. Click the "Cancel" button or press Esc to cancel your changes.
Any single character other than characters classified as whitespace can be used as a search operator. To ensure that the search string is interpreted correctly, set a character that is not used in tag (= folder) names.
If you want to disable a search operator, leave the input box empty and save it.
5.2.1.2 Max number of items per page
The maximum number of items that can be displayed in the dropdown list of the address bar at a time is preset by your browser. If the search results exceed this limit, they will be displayed across multiple pages. This has already been mentioned in the previous chapter. The problem is that sometimes the browser changes this number (hereafter referred to as the "preset number") without prior notice and currently there is no way for FakeTag to detect the change. The purpose of the "Max number of items per page" option is to tell FakeTag this preset number so that it can properly split search results into multiple pages.
5.2.1.2.1 How to set the "max number of items per page" option
First, choose a tag name that returns a relatively large number of search results (10 or more as a guideline) so that they span multiple pages. Look at the "Showing 1-X of Y match(es)" section at the top (hereafter referred to as the "status line"). If the Y value is greater than the X value, then the search results span multiple pages. Note the Y value for later use. Note also that a "" icon appears to the left of each item. Once you have completed this step, press Esc to cancel the search.
In the above case, X is 9 and Y is 11.
Next, set the Y value noted in the previous step as the value for the "Max number of items per page" option.
Then, search again with the same search string as in the first step and note the number of search results with a "" icon (excluding the status line) as "Z".
In the above case, Y is 11 and Z is 9.
If the Z value is smaller than the Y value (as it usually should be), then the Z value is the preset number, so set the Z value as the value for the "Max number of items per page" option.
If the Z value is equal to the Y value, or if there are search results without a "" icon, the preset number may be greater than the Z value. So, set the "Max number of items per page" option to a value slightly greater than the current Y value, and try again from the first step (make sure that the search results still span multiple pages after increasing the value).
5.2.2 "Notes" subpage
On the "Notes" subpage, you can view and delete unused notes.
5.2.2.1 What is an "unused note"?
For example, if you bookmark the BBC homepage (https://www.bbc.com/) and give it two tags "News" and "U.K.", and a note saying "Read later", then the note will be associated with the URL (rather than the two bookmarks created) and will be stored separately from your bookmarks.
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."] Stored notes: https://www.bbc.com/ => "Read later"
Then, if you remove the two tags (= delete the two bookmarks) without deleting the note, you will end up in a situation where bookmarks pointing to the URL https://www.bbc.com/ no longer exist, but a note associated with it still exists.
┣ [F1: "News"] ┗ [F2: "U.K."] Stored notes: https://www.bbc.com/ => "Reat later"
Notes like this are called "unused notes".
5.2.2.2 Viewing and deleting unused notes
Select the notes you want to delete from the list and click the "Delete selected notes" button to delete them. Click the "
" icon to select all notes. Click the "
" icon to deselect all notes.
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