# Using the Hotlist

## Introduction

Opera's multi-purpose Hotlist, enabled with `F4`, is organized into panels.

Right-click the top of the Hotlist to customize your panels:

Tip: Right-click list items in any Hotlist panel for a multiple choice menu.

## Bookmarks

Opera comes with many bookmarks to popular sites already installed. You may add as many additional bookmarks as you wish.

Operation | How to do it
--- | ---
Create bookmark for active Web page | Drag page icon from Address bar to Hotlist
Open bookmark in active page | Double-click bookmark
Open bookmark in new page | Press `Shift` and double-click the bookmark (or middle-click the bookmark)
Open bookmark in the background | Press `Ctrl` + `Shift` and double-click the bookmark
Put bookmarks available at all times | Drag bookmarks to Personal bar
Find bookmark | Enter text to search for in "Quick find" field
Create folder to organize bookmarks | Click "New folder"
Open all bookmarks in selected folder | Drag bookmark folder to Opera's workspace
Move bookmarks and folders around | Drag and drop items
Sort your bookmarks | Click "View"
Fast access to bookmark | Press `Shift` + `F2` and enter nickname

### Bookmark properties

Press `Alt` + `Enter` to:

- Edit the bookmark's name, nickname, and Web address
- Add a bookmark description
- Move the bookmark to another folder
- Make the bookmark available on the Personal bar
- Show the bookmarked Web page as a Hotlist panel

## Mail

Read about M2, Opera's news and e-mail client

## Contacts

Create contacts and store your friends' e-mail address, telephone number, and postal address.

Operation | How to do it
--- | ---
Create new contact | Click "Add"
Create folder for group of contacts | Click "New folder"
Recognize sender of e-mail as new contact | Press `A` while viewing e-mail
Show messages associated with contact | Double-click contact
Make contact available at all times | Drag contact to Personal bar

### Contact properties

Press `Alt` + `Enter` to:

- Edit selected contact's name, e-mail address, homepage address, postal address, and phone numbers
- Write down notes about the contact
- Select a picture (around 60x50 pixels) you would like to associate with selected contact
- Select a small icon you would like to show next to messages from selected contact

Tip: If you type the word "party" in the Notes field of your coolest friends, you can later type "party" in the Quickfind field to find all those people, then drag and drop them into an e-mail to send a party invitation.

## History

Opera's History panel keeps a list of Web pages you have visited recently. In Opera's History and cache preferences, you may choose how many addresses to keep track of.

Tip: If you recall having visited a nice site, but forgot to bookmark it, use the "Find" field in the History panel to locate it.

## Transfers

Opera's Transfers panel lets you monitor and control files being transferred between your computer and the Internet.

Operation | How to do it
--- | ---
Download file linked to in a Web page | Click link to file in the Web page or drag the link to the "Quick download" field
Download file | Enter file address in the "Quick download" field
Resume transfer of selected files | Click "Resume"
Stop transfer of selected files | Click "Stop"
Transfer selected file again | Click "Retransfer"
Sort list of files | Click column headers

Note: Not all Web sites support resuming of file transfers.

## Links

The Links panel extracts all links in the current Web page so you can easily find images, music, video clips, zip files and other interesting downloads.

Example: Type "mp3" in Quickfind to find all mp3 files on the page.

Tip: Click the "Lock" button to keep the current list of links even if you browse to other pages.

## Windows

The Windows panel displays a tree-structured view of your open pages and application windows.

To see how this works, press `Ctrl` + `Alt` + `N` a couple of times to create some applications windows. Then press `Ctrl` + `N` a couple of times while in the different application windows.

To close a page or an application window, select the item and press `Delete`.

## Info

The Info panel displays technical information about the current Web page.

## Notes

The Notes panel can serve as a clipboard manager, a todo list, and other means of remembering multiple strings of text.

Operation | How to do it
--- | ---
Write a new note | Click "New note"
Organize notes into folders | Click "New folder"
Take notes from a Web page | Mark text in page, then press `Ctrl` + `Shift` + `C`
Paste clipboard into note | Press `Ctrl` + `Shift` + `V`
Search the Web for contents in note | Drag note to search field and press `Enter`
Delete a note to Trash | Click note and press `Delete`
Undelete a note from Trash | Open Trash and drag note out of Trash
Organize notes and folders | Use drag and drop

## Web panels

To show a Web page in Opera's Hotlist, bookmark the page by pressing `Ctrl` + `T` and select to show it as a panel.

Some Web pages provide special links (rel="sidebar") that make it easy to add Web pages as Hotlist panels.

Example: Add the Help table of contents as a Hotlist panel.

Tip: Right-click the Hotlist Web-page area for multiple choices.

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