Introduction: Save Time Browsing Instructables

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If you are a user who is clicking all over the place to find out what's new, or keeping an eye on what's been discussed in the Community this might be of some use.

Create your own home page, which links you directly to where you want to go.

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Step 1: Hyperlinks

When you have reached a page you regularly look at e.g. recent Instructables, copy the URL from the address bar and paste it into a simple text editor such as MS Notepad. It doesn't have to be MS, any plain text editor will do.

For example;

https://www.instructables.com/
https://www.instructables.com/tag/type:question/?count=30&sort=RECENT
https://www.instructables.com/tag/type:id/?sort=RECENT
https://www.instructables.com/community?categoryGroup=all&category=all
https://www.instructables.com/community?categoryGroup=all&category=all&limit=20&sort=RECENT
https://www.instructables.com/community?categoryGroup=all&category=all&limit=20&sort=RECENT_POSTS
https://www.instructables.com/you/

Step 2: HTML

Now add HTML to the text file to give you a local web-page.

At the top of the file add:
<html>
<head>
<title>(put the title of your page in here)</title>
</head>
<body>
Now add <a href=" before each hyperlink
Close with ">
add a description
Close the link with </a>
Add a line return with <br>
And repeat.
See next step...

Step 3: HTML

<html>
<head>
<title>Instructables</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="https://www.instructables.com/">Instructables</a><br>
<a href="https://www.instructables.com/tag/type:question/?count=30&sort=RECENT">Recent questions</a><br>
<a href="https://www.instructables.com/tag/type:id/?sort=RECENT">Recent Instructables</a><br>
<a href="https://www.instructables.com/community?categoryGroup=all&category=all">Forums all</a><br>
<a href="https://www.instructables.com/community?categoryGroup=all&category=all&limit=20&sort=RECENT">Forums recent topics</a><br>
<a href="https://www.instructables.com/community?categoryGroup=all&category=all&limit=20&sort=RECENT_POSTS">Forums recent posts</a><br>
<a href="https://www.instructables.com/you/">Me</a><br>

Step 4: Finish

Now close the HTML and BODY tags by inserting:
</body>
</html>

Step 5: The Finished Page

<html>
<head>
<title>Instructables</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="https://www.instructables.com/">Instructables</a><br>
<a href="https://www.instructables.com/tag/type:question/?count=30&sort=RECENT">Recent
questions"</a><br>
<a href="https://www.instructables.com/tag/type:id/?sort=RECENT">Recent Instructables</a><br>
<a href="https://www.instructables.com/community?categoryGroup=all&category=all">Forums all</a><br>
<a href="https://www.instructables.com/community?categoryGroup=all&category=all&limit=20&sort=RECENT">Forums recent topics</a><br>
<a href="https://www.instructables.com/community?categoryGroup=all&category=all&limit=20&sort=RECENT_POSTS">Forums recent posts</a><br>
<a href="https://www.instructables.com/you/">Me</a><br>
</body>
</html>

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Recent questions"
Recent Instructables
Forums all
Forums recent topics
Forums recent posts
Me

Step 6: But You Don't Have To!

Because I have. Just download the file, save to your desktop and open with your web-browser.

This is HTML at it's most basic. It serves a purely functional purpose, which is why I haven't done anything more with it.

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