Category: Bookmarks

This category contains functions allowing you to jump between open windows.

Bookmarks are a method of keeping track of the windows you have open. Typically, users work primarily in 1-2 windows, while keeping a number of windows or applications open. This can make the "browsing" or "task switching" a complicated affair. Using the built-in bookmark functions (or by defining your own), you can use a hotkey to "mark" a window, and then later return to it using the same hotkey. These "bookmarks" are defined and used "on-the-fly", so you can overwrite them as often as you want to.

WinMapper's built-in bookmarks use the keys 0-9 in combination with the Microsoft Windows key. To set a bookmark, hold down the Microsoft Windows key, the SHIFT key, and one of the keys numbered 0 to 9 (on the main keyboard). To jump back to an open window, simply press the Microsoft Windows key and the numbered key (0 to 9) you used to set the bookmark.

As an example, open a document of any kind from your computer. Then press and hold the Microsoft Windows key, the SHIFT key, and the "1" key. If you have enabled the "Confirm hotkeys" option in WinMapper (and have sound enabled), you should hear a small beep. Now switch to another application, document, the desktop, or any other Microsoft Windows application. Whereever you are, if you press the Microsoft Windows key and the "1" key simultaneously, you will be taken back to the document you opened. Note that bookmarks are temporary - to always open the document or application, use the Run or Switch to Application functions.

The default bookmark keys are:

WIN+SHIFT+0 Set bookmark 0
WIN+SHIFT+1 Set bookmark 1
WIN+SHIFT+2 Set bookmark 2
WIN+SHIFT+3 Set bookmark 3
WIN+SHIFT+4 Set bookmark 4
WIN+SHIFT+5 Set bookmark 5
WIN+SHIFT+6 Set bookmark 6
WIN+SHIFT+7 Set bookmark 7
WIN+SHIFT+8 Set bookmark 8
WIN+SHIFT+9 Set bookmark 9
WIN+0 Jump to bookmark 0
WIN+1 Jump to bookmark 1
WIN+2 Jump to bookmark 2
WIN+3 Jump to bookmark 3
WIN+4 Jump to bookmark 4
WIN+5 Jump to bookmark 5
WIN+6 Jump to bookmark 6
WIN+7 Jump to bookmark 7
WIN+8 Jump to bookmark 8
WIN+9 Jump to bookmark 9

Set Bookmark

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