118 votes

Bookmarks have evolved into Saves

feature-request Keep the name of the feature as "Bookmarks/Bookmarking" or find a more appropriate term. Maybe something along the lines of "Notebook" (as suggested in the comments)...
ColleenV's user avatar
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Bookmarks have evolved into Saves

Moderators will not be able to see or interact with your saved posts and private notes Bookmarks were an important tool in the process of identifying voting fraud. I understand that mods should not ...
Dharman's user avatar
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68 votes

Bookmarks have evolved into Saves

This is a great feature, thank you! I just don't quite understand why you need a name change from something clearly understandable (bookmarks) to something very confusing. "Saves", to me, ...
terdon's user avatar
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38 votes

Can there be an option to keep your list of bookmarks private?

UPDATE 2: Implemented now as the Saves feature. 🎉 All bookmarks will now be private and migrated automatically to "saves". There's also other improvements with the new feature! My ...
geekley's user avatar
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33 votes

What's the difference between "bookmarking" and "following" a post?

Bookmarking Only works on questions, not on answers Is publicly visible (including in SEDE) Generates badges: Favorite Question and Stellar Question A list of your bookmarked questions across the ...
31 votes

Bookmarks have evolved into Saves

What happens if a post I saved has been deleted? We will be preserving the existing behavior: If you have the access to moderator tools privilege, you will be able to see deleted posts in your saved ...
user3840170's user avatar
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31 votes

Bookmarks have evolved into Saves

Will my saved posts and lists be public? Nope! […] The existing Bookmarks tab on your network profile page will also be rebranded to Saves and made private. Oh no! This breaks my workflow… I think ...
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29 votes

Bookmarks have evolved into Saves

Some questions about private notes: Will there be a character limit on private notes? If so, what is it? Will mini (comment style) markdown be supported in private notes? When I save dupe targets (...
Henry Ecker's user avatar
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28 votes

Bookmarks have evolved into Saves

feature-request Allow for searching in specific lists. I currently have bookmarked a lot of questions that are canonicals for different topics, so I can quickly find them and link them, when needed. I ...
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25 votes

Bookmarks have evolved into Saves

feature-request Lists with items in them could prompt before you can delete them. People do dumb things. Since you can't really recover a list, or the items in them, it might be nice to warn folks ...
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25 votes

Bookmarks have evolved into Saves

feature-request Can there be a way to undo un-saving a post? At the moment, accidentally clicking the button leaves you with no recourse: I really like how this works with Followed posts, where the &...
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25 votes

Bookmarks have evolved into Saves

feature-request There should be some way to check which list a saved post is in, and what private notes you have given it — from the post's page. Currently, you can see that a post is saved on its ...
Elements In Space's user avatar
23 votes

Favorites are now known as Bookmarks

support feature-request status-planned According to What tags exist by default on child metas?, there is a default [favorites] tag on all ~170 child metas in the network, e.g. on Meta Stack Overflow ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
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23 votes

Bookmarks have evolved into Saves

bug/feature-requeststatus-completed You told me about the new feature; no need to repeat on every single site. Every time I open a post on any SE site, I get this popover message: ...unless I have ...
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19 votes

Bookmarks have evolved into Saves

feature-request Change the wording "You have no saved items" shown when a list is empty: This is misleading as it implies no saved items at all. Please change to: You have no saved items ...
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18 votes
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Why do some questions have a favorite count of 0 while others have none?

From looking at a few examples in each list, it seems that 0 indicates a question that has been favorited at some point but the favorite was removed. Questions in the NULL list have never been ...
Catija's user avatar
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18 votes

Bookmarks have evolved into Saves

support Will I be able to search the "private note" content using the in:saves search operator? Or will there be a separate operator for the "private note" search?
Arulkumar's user avatar
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17 votes
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Can you make bookmarks private OR make it abundantly clear that they're not?

On 2022-10-05, bookmarks became private (and were renamed "Saves"). Announcement: When we launch, all of the saved posts, custom lists, and private notes you create will be private moving ...
Franck Dernoncourt's user avatar
17 votes

Bookmarks have evolved into Saves

bugstatus-completed It's possible to move a saved post to a new list, not enter a name for the new list, and click 'Done'. In that case, nothing happens, except that you get a notification Question ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
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16 votes

Favorites are now known as Bookmarks

discussion, feature-request Great, thanks! I always dislike those "My question got two favorites and three downvotes" questions on Meta. This should hopefully stop those. I also like that what I'm ...
S.S. Anne's user avatar
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16 votes

Bookmarks have evolved into Saves

What will happen to my existing bookmarks? We will be migrating over your existing bookmarks into the default “For later” Saves list. Once we enable the Saves feature, the migration process will take ...
Karl Knechtel's user avatar
16 votes

Bookmarks have evolved into Saves

feature-request Can you add the ability to move saves to a new list in-bulk? Since everything was migrated to the "For later" list, I'm now wanting to sort my saves into better-fitting lists....
zcoop98's user avatar
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16 votes

Bookmarks have evolved into Saves

bugstatus-completed New Saves dialogs are draggable but cannot be moved The three new Saves dialogs: "Edit list", "New List", and "Move to" would all appear to be ...
PeterJames's user avatar
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15 votes
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How do I un-favorite a question that has been migrated to another SE site?

Use "?noredirect=1" in the end of the link. For example, use this for your case: "movies.stackexchange.com/questions/69409/song-playing-in-lift-me-up-first-dance-scene?noredirect=1" And then just ...
Ankit Sharma's user avatar
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15 votes
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infavorites:mine search query does not work

This is now fixed, some info on what happened in case people are curious: Okay we had a few issues here as a result of the elastic migration we've been working on and just migrated to. For priority ...
Nick Craver's user avatar
15 votes

Bookmarks have evolved into Saves

bug plurals status-completed All item lists (with 1 member) say "1 saved items":
Glorfindel's user avatar
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15 votes

API request for "favorites" now returning an empty list – is there a way to get something equivalent for saves?

As part of the Saves launch, I failed to communicate anything about the API in the FAQ section of the launch announcement post, however we have tickets created to do some investigation of the current ...
tanj92's user avatar
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14 votes

Favorites are now known as Bookmarks

bug feature-request status-planned Please update the Help Center article How do I search?, section User Operators. It has an entry which still refers to favorites: infavorites:mine (or any user id)...
Glorfindel's user avatar
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