# Using the Hotlist

## Introduction

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

Panel | Purpose
--- | ---
Bookmarks | Organize bookmarks to your favorite Web sites
Mail | Read, write, and organize e-mail and news
Contacts | Organize your list of contacts
History | Keep track of all recently visited Web pages
Transfer | Monitor file transfers
Links | View all links in a Web page
Windows | Organize all your open pages and application windows
Web panels | Show Web pages in Hotlist

Tip: Right-click the top of the Hotlist to add, edit, hide, remove, or customize panels.

Note: M2, Opera's news and e-mail client, is covered on a separate page.

## 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
Make bookmark available at all times | Drag bookmark 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

Tip: Click "View" to sort your bookmarks.

Right-click a bookmark for multiple choices:

In the bookmark properties you may:

- 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

Tip: Press `Shift` + `F2` and enter nickname for fast access to a bookmark.

## 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

Right-click a contact for multiple choices:

In the contact properties you may:

- Edit selected contact's name, e-mail address, homepage address, postal address, and phone numbers
- Add additional notes
- Select a picture (approximately 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

## 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.

Right-click a history item for multiple choices:

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

Right-click a transfer item for multiple choices:

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

## Links

Opera's Links panel displays all links in the active Web page. Use this panel to quickly get a structured overview of possible new pages to visit.

If you right-click a link item, the standard Link menu will appear with an extra option:

Tip: When you visit for example a search engine or an index page, click the "Lock" button to temporarily freeze a list of all links.

## 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`.

## Web pages as 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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