Today I’d like to give you a quick tip to make any blogger or webmaster more productive and efficient. I don’t know about you, but when I start my daily tasks, I have a number of things that I do automatically; without fail. I read some blogs via bloglines, some others via Google Reader, I open my WordPress dashboard, I open my site, my email, SiteMeter, Google AdWords, and I open Google Analytics. That’s a lot of sites to open manually each day, even if each one is individually bookmarked. The answer to this is to group those bookmarks.
My tip to you is easy, and it works with both Firefox and Internet Explorer 7. Bookmark each of the sites that you open and organize those bookmarks into a common folder for easy single click access. If these were the sites you had open when you closed your browser, you could simply configure your browser to open those same pages on next open. However, if your like me, I move on to other things before I close my browser so I need an easy way to open those default pages.
To open all these pages with 2 clicks of the mouse begin by bookmarking all the sites. If your using Firefox, click Bookmarks – Organize Bookmarks – create a “Webmaster” folder and drag all these bookmarks to this folder. Next time you open Firefox, click on Bookmarks – hover over Webmaster – click on “Open all in Tabs”. Every site you have bookmarked now opens in their own tab.
The steps to do the same thing in Internet Explorer 7 are very similar. Bookmark (Favorite) each of the sites, just like before. Now, click on the star to view your favorites, create a folder, and drag all the sites to that new folder. To open this group of favorites, click the star then click the arrow.
Now, I remember every site that I need to perform tasks on each day and get to them super quickly. This process assures me that I won’t accidentally forget one of these daily tasks.