Adding Folders to your Favorites Bar

In this video, I’m going to show you how you can add folders to your Favorites Bar in Safari on the Mac. Let’s go to my Mac.

So I’m in and Safari here, and if you’re not familiar with your Favorites Bar, the Favorites Bar is located at the top of your browser here, and it has your favorite websites.

Now, if you do not see this Favorites Bar, what you’ll need to do is you’ll need to go up to View in the menu bar, and then you’ll need to make sure that you have Favorites Bar shown. I have it showing, so it says here Hide Favorites Bar. So if I select this, it’s going to hide it. I want to show it again. I go back under View, and we go to Show Favorites Bar.

So now we have my favorite websites up here. What do I mean by favorite websites? If we go to my bookmarks, I’m going to open up my bookmarks here; I click on this icon, and then what I do is go over to my bookmarks here. You’re going to see; I have Favorites. Any website in this Favorites section is going to show up in my Favorites Bar here. So if we look here, you’re going to see, I have Wikipedia. And if we look in the Favorites Bar, we have Wikipedia. I have TripAdvisor; in the Favorites Bar, I have TripAdvisor. If I move any of these around, it’ll move it around on the Favorites Bar. So I just go to Noteboom here; I want to move it up towards Dan’s Tutorials here, my two websites, we can see they are next to each other. And when we go to my Favorites Bar, there are now next to each other. I click on any one of these to open it up.

But if we also look, you’re going to see that we have a folder here, and within this folder, I have more websites. If we look at the Favorites Bar, you’re going to see; we have a folder here. And when I click on it, I have more websites. These are the same websites that are in this folder here. What’s nice about adding a folder is you can open up all of these websites at the same time. All you have to do is just go down to the bottom, and you’ll see Open in New Tabs. When I select this, what it does now is it opens up all of those websites in a separate tab. So now what I can do is I can go through these websites. I just command-w to close the window, and I’m going through all of these different websites.

One way you could use this is if you have favorite websites that you like to visit first thing in the morning; what you can do is place them into a folder here, and then select in your Favorites Bar here, Open in New Tabs. It’s going to open up all of those websites that you like to visit first thing in the morning, and you can easily go through those websites.

So how do we add this folder here to our Favorites Bar? Well, all we need to do is go and edit our bookmark, so I go up to Bookmarks here in the menu bar, and we go to Edit Bookmarks. I want to add a new folder. I click on New Folder; we have my new folder. Now I name it. So I’m just going to call this My Sites. Now, what I need to do is I need to move it over to my favorites, so it shows up in my Favorites Bar. I click and drag to put it on top of Favorites, and now we can see it as in my Favorites Bar. And when we look at my Favorites Bar, we have My Sites. But there’s nothing in it yet. It is empty.

Now what I want to do is I want to move my two sites here into that folder. So now I just drag this down, place it on top. I drag this down, place it on top. We can see that my two sites are in my new folder here. And when we go up to my Favorites Bar, I click on it, we have my two sites. And if I want to open them both up at the same time, I select Open in New Tabs. And again, if I want to move them around, I can just drag this up and place them where I want. Or what I can do is I can drag this in my Favorites Bar and place it where I want.

So that’s how we add folders to our Favorites Bar in Safari. Our Favorites Bar is located at the top of our browser, and it shows us our favorite websites. These websites are actually located in our bookmarks. To add a folder, we edit our bookmarks. We create a new folder and drag it into the favorite section. From there, we just drag our sites that we want in that folder. Once we do that, we’ll be able to access that folder from our Favorites Bar. In addition to opening up the sites in that Favorites Bar, in that folder in the favorites bar, what we’re also able to do is open up all of the sites in that folder at the same time as new tabs.

So that’s how we add folders to our Favorites Bar in Safari on the Mac.