Knot My Line

When it comes to almost anything in life we humans each have our unique preferences.  Sometimes we get so tangled up in them that we can’t see the forest for the trees.  That happened to me recently.  I use Internet Explorer, perhaps because I know it a little bit better than Mozilla or perhaps I just have too many other things I am interested in playing with.   For whatever reason, I use I.E., please don’t ask me why or tell me how dumb that is.

Getting back to the forest; I have a number of links that I click on far more often than my other favorites.  These I put in the Links folder of Favorites and I.E. displayed them at the top of my browser. 

For years I have used a shortened name of the link rather than the long name it gets when you add it to your favorites.   For example, I had shortened the name “WordPress Blog Tool and Weblog Platform” to WordPress.  By shortening these names I was able to get 5 of my most used links to appear in the tool bar.  One click and I went directly to them.

However, I have eleven really frequently used links and to get to the others I had to mouse and click all too frequently.  Then the simple solution finally came to mind.  Don’t use names, a letter or two is all I really need.  So now, this is what my tool bar looks like and I love it.

All that appears now is the Icon followed by a letter or two.   Using lower case shrinks it even more.   All eleven of my links are there with room for more.   If I could get only an icon to show, that would suffice in most cases, but that is not possible or at least if it is I couldn’t figure it out.   I don’t use the menu bar very much so it has been shrunk to just “File”.  It still allows me to see the rest of the menu by accessing the drop down menu.  So now I get three tool bars on the same line and gain space for the actual window.