Bookmarks?

I liked the bookmark pane as well. The way the sources view is now, you actually don't really need it, since you can just use clones and drag them over. But if we get an option to view folders only in the sources view (see http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/node/394), then presumably it wouldn't let you do this, unless it is able to make an exception for manually dragging items. In that case, a bookmark pane would be very useful again.

BTW, I agree that because of this I found it difficult to use OmniOutliner. Note also that TAO has just added a bookmark pane as well.

One advantage of clones over bookmarks, is that you can drag things onto clones (aliases). With HBN I found myself draging notes out of my inbox or services folder and trying to drop them onto bookmarks (which were usually the things I was working on actively.) However, in the bookmarks pane it would always try to make these notes into new bookmarks, rather than file them under existing bookmarks.

You can always make a top level folder now called "Bookmarks" or "Active" and just make aliases of your items into it.

Good point about dragging onto clones. Perhaps a bookmark pane should merely be a placeholder for clones (again, this would only be necessary if you're otherwise excluding files from the sources view). You could make it so that dragging a file or folder will automatically create a clone (and you could also make the pane resizable down to zero if you don't want it). In which case your idea of making a folder for Bookmarks would be essentially the same thing, although I think slightly less convenient.

(I keep saying clone instead of alias, that is a more descriptive I think, so as to avoid confusion with the Finder-type alias).

My intention is to replace bookmarks with Del.icio.us style tags. I think tags should be able to replace the bookmarks functionality and more. I'm not entirely sure how I'll implement the tags GUI, so please add your comments to the tags request if you have particular ideas. I'm going to mark this request as a duplicate in favor of tags.

A final thought on bookmarks, feel free to close the issue. I use bookmarks (right now, dragging clones into the sources view serves perfectly well as bookmarks) just to have temporarily easy access to something I'm working on. For example, I'll have a file for taking notes on a book or a paper that I'll want to come back to until it's done without searching for it or navigating to it. Being able to tag it with various keywords will be a great feature, but that will serve a different purpose.

Like I said, it may depend on what will happen when/if we have the option to view only folders in the sources view. If you can make it so that you can still drag files there manually, then a bookmark pane is probably unnecessary. Otherwise, I would probably settle for the sources view as it is so that I could use this "clone as bookmark" technique.

I think bookmarks are fully supported in Mori 1.2, but under the name "Flags". You can flag entries quickly with a toolbar item, or by clicking in the flag column. And you can setup a smart folder to find flagged entries.