2. Popup (FakeTag User Guide)

This chapter describes the popup, a tool that allows you to bookmark the webpage you are viewing (hereafter referred to as the "current page") and edit bookmarks you have already created.

2.1 How to open the popup

2.1.1 From the toolbar

After installing FakeTag, click the "puzzle piece" icon on the toolbar to display a list of installed extensions, and click "FakeTag" to open the popup. You can also put an icon for opening the popup () on the toolbar by clicking the "pin" icon next to the extension name.

2.1.2 With keyboard shortcut

You can set a keyboard shortcut to open the popup on the extensions management page (under "Activate the extension").

The extensions management page（chrome://extensions/shortcuts）

2.2 How to use the popup

When you open the popup, you will see the bookmark creation screen if the current page is not bookmarked, or the bookmark editing screen if the current page is already bookmarked.

You can tell if the current page is bookmarked by looking at the "star" icon in the address bar.

This page is not bookmarked.

This page is already bookmarked.

2.2.1 Bookmark creation screen

To create a bookmark, fill in the "Name" field, select at least one tag, and then click the "Save" button. Once created, the screen will switch to the bookmark editing screen (described below). Use Tab to move to the next field and Shift+Tab to move to the previous field. Press Esc or click anywhere outside the popup to close it.

2.2.1.1 "Note" field

The optional "Note" field is managed directly by FakeTag, so your notes are stored separately from your bookmarks. Even so, if your browser's auto-sync feature is enabled, your notes should be synced automatically as well (but without encryption, so use it with caution).

Note also that (pun not intended) there are limits on the number of notes you can create, the number of characters per note (in bytes), and the total number of characters for all notes (click here for more details). There is plenty of room for the number of characters, so you can ignore it. The maximum number of notes you can create is about 500. Unfortunately, at the moment, even if you fail to create a note due to exceeding the limit, no warning is displayed, so if you encounter a problem such as a note you think you have created not being saved, try checking how many notes you have using the bookmark manager (described later).

2.2.1.2 "Tags" field

There are two ways to select tags: using the search box or using the tag list.

2.2.1.2.1 Using the search box

As you type a tag name in the search box, matching candidates will be displayed. Press Enter to select the highlighted candidate. You can also click a candidate directly to select it. Press Tab or ↓ to move the highlight down, and press Shift+Tab or ↑ to move it up. When you select a candidate marked "New tag", a new tag (= folder) will be created under "Other bookmarks" and the newly created tag will be selected. Pressing Esc while candidates are displayed will cancel the search.

If there are multiple candidates with the same name, hovering over a candidate will show the path to it from the top-level tags.

The selected tag will be displayed above the search box. Click the "" icon to switch to the tag editing screen (described below). Click the "" icon to deselect it.

2.2.1.2.2 Using the tag list

You can also select a tag by clicking an item in the tag list. Click the "" icon to switch to the tag editing screen (described below). Click the "" icon to create a subtag.

2.2.2 Bookmark editing screen

Clicking the "Edit" button will display an input box where you can change the contents of that field.

Click the "Save" button or press Enter to save your changes. Click the "Cancel" button or press Esc to cancel your changes.

If you have bookmarks that point to the same URL but have different names (see below), the "Name" field will look like the screenshot that follows.

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

When you click the "Select" button, the names of the bookmarks that point to the the current page's URL will be unified with that name. When you fill in the input box that says "New name" and click the "Rename" button or press Enter, the bookmark names will be unified with that.

The method for selecting tags is the same as in the bookmark creation screen. If you remove the last tag, there will no longer be a bookmark pointing to the current page's URL, so the screen will switch back to the bookmark creation screen. The note will not be automatically deleted even if the last tag is removed. If you want to delete the note, empty the "Note" field and save it before removing the last tag, or use the "Delete" button described in the next paragraph. You can delete any notes you forgot to delete on the options page.

Click the "Delete" button in the top right of the screen to remove all tags and delete the note in one step.

2.2.3 Tag editing screen

In the tag editing screen, you can change the tag name and its parent tag. Click the "Back" button to return to the previous screen. Usage is the same as the bookmark editing screen, except that you cannot select multiple tags.

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