Bookmax Help

These pages describe what a Bookmax account can do and how each part of it is operated. They are the same help texts that are shown inside the application, rewritten for someone who has not signed in yet: every page says first what a function is for, then how it is used. Nothing here requires an account to read.

An account is one window with three columns. On the left a panel with folders or groups, in the middle the list of whatever you have selected there, on the right a box with tools and search. A bar at the top switches between the seven areas: Bookmarks, Lists, Contacts, Notes, Docs, News and Teams. They all work the same way, which is the reason this help is short.

Start here

Getting started covers the things that are identical in every area: how the panels are resized, how rows are selected, how entries are dragged into a new order, and which keys do what. Read that one first and the rest of the pages become a lot shorter.

The seven areas

• Bookmarks - folders, tags, the button that saves the page you are on, the tools for favicons, thumbnails and duplicates, and import and export of a bookmarks file.
• Lists - your own small tables with up to ten columns, each column with a name, a type and a width, plus a filter row for finding entries.
• Contacts - an address book in groups, with the usual fields for addresses, telephone numbers and mail addresses.
• Notes - short notes on a board, placed and sized where you want them, the way sticky notes lie on a desk.
• Docs - longer texts with formatting, filed in groups and read in the same window.
• News - RSS and Atom subscriptions in groups, merged into one stream of articles.
• Teams - sharing a folder or a group with other people, and the four roles that decide who may change what.
• Your public page - giving part of your account a second address that anyone can read, and what stays private.

Your account

Settings explains every page in the settings area: your user data, the password, what the bookmark list shows, the public page, the template, the backup that puts the whole account into one file, and the two ways of throwing data away.

What is not on these pages

This is the manual, not the sales pitch. What the modules are good for is described on the features page and on the pages about bookmark folders and the built-in feed reader. Which limits apply to a free account and which to a Premium account is listed in the account comparison; the prices are on the pricing page.

You can look at all of it without registering. On the login page, sign in as demo with the password demo for a free account, or as premium with premium to see the version without limits. Both accounts are shared and get reset, so treat them as a showroom rather than as storage. Your own account takes an email address and nothing else: create an account.