BookmarkTiles is a Bookmarks Add-On for your Browser, basically any Browser, but it is designed mainly for Safari.

It mimics the previously know Safari Feature TopSites and brings it back to all newer Versions of Safari along with some other Features that never arrived or dropped years ago.

BookmarkTiles has currently one difference, you cannot rearrange the Tiles with drag & drop, the sort by creation.

BookmarkTiles is all about visual Bookmarks, this means, instead of having list with text Bookmarks, menus, folder, subfolders etc, you get a graphical UI with Website Thumbnails, FavIcons and ,more …

You can add as many Bookmarks as you want or need but instead of scrolling through all of them, you can set a Tag for each Bookmark that you defined previously, once done, you get a Tagline at the top of the HUD from where you can fast access pre-sorted and pre-filtered, section—like Overviews of your Bookmarks, but if you can’t find the bookmark you are looking for, you can even search it directly by Caption/Title.

If you ever used Safari years ago, there was a really helpful feature the notified you when a website had changes with a blue star in the Tiles Top-right Corner, wel,l, BookmarkTiles can do this as well if a Website supports it, you can even define on which changes you want to be notified if supported.

Such Bookmarks are than called Monitored, a monitored Tile can even be quick looked wit the Spacebar to check before visit if its worth it.

You can even fine-tune when BookmarkTiles takes the new Thumbnail, this is especially handy for slow Websites with dozen of Images that needs to be loaded first like Disney+ e.g. This ensures you don't get white or blank Thumbnails or missing Content due not loaded in time…

Creating a Bookmark is simple and fast, especially if you use safari, just click the Add Button, click the “Get current” Button to get the current Website open in safari and everything prepares automatically, if not, you can simply type in an URL and hit the Preload Button to auto obtain the Title/Caption, RSS feeds and anything else needed…

BookmarkTiles is designed and mentioned as an Utility Overview, therefore it is recommenced to use it without a Titlebar and a Dock Icon, they are both present but can be turned off in the Settings, the Dock Icon becomes even more irrelevant if you use BookmarkTiles with Safari, you can always access BookmarkTiles from the Status Menu Icon near the Clock at the top right side of your screen.

The Tile is the key element of the App, it represents each Bookmark. To open a Bookmark in your default Browser, simply click it.

But there is more:

If a Website can be monitored and you enabled it, a Red Ribbon will appear on the top left side if new Content was discovered, BookmarkTiles will check each time you opened ts HUD, not in background, only one demand. If you see the red Ribbon, you can hit the Spacebar to get a brief preview of what is new (Quicklook like)

If a Bookmark can be quick looked an additional Icon will appear when you hover over aTile.

To edit a Bookmark, click the top-right Button with the Edit Sheet.

To delete a Bookmark hold the SHIFT Key and the Edit Button becomes a Delete Button.

The Tile is the key element of the App, it represents each Bookmark. To open a Bookmark in your default Browser, simply click it.

But there is more:

If a Website can be monitored and you enabled it, a Red Ribbon will appear on the top left side if new Content was discovered, BookmarkTiles will check each time you opened ts HUD, not in background, only one demand. If you see the red Ribbon, you can hit the Spacebar to get a brief preview of what is new (Quicklook like)

If a Bookmark can be quick looked an additional Icon will appear when you hover over aTile.

To edit a Bookmark, click the top-right Button with the Edit Sheet.

To delete a Bookmark hold the SHIFT Key and the Edit Button becomes a Delete Button.

The Tagline can be found at the top left side of the Hud, you can create as many Tags as you need, and you will find them all are, simply click one or navigate with the arrow Keys. The purpose of the Tagline is to make it easy to pre-filter your Bookmarks for fast and easy access instead of searching each time for a Bookmark you use rarely.

There is also one more part:

Whenever you create or have a Bookmark with no Tag assigned like choosing “None” from the Tags Picker in the Editor, a temporary, non editable Section will appear at the left side of the Tagline called “Untagged”, this Section will remain there, till you assigned all Bookmarks from here to a Tag, this is to prevent searching for a Bookmark from the “All” Section and for future Action like fast Add from Safari…

The Tile is the key element of the App, it represents each Bookmark. To open a Bookmark in your default Browser, simply click it.

But there is more:

If a Website can be monitored and you enabled it, a Red Ribbon will appear on the top left side if new Content was discovered, BookmarkTiles will check each time you opened ts HUD, not in background, only one demand. If you see the red Ribbon, you can hit the Spacebar to get a brief preview of what is new (Quicklook like)

If a Bookmark can be quick looked an additional Icon will appear when you hover over aTile.

To edit a Bookmark, click the top-right Button with the Edit Sheet.

To delete a Bookmark hold the SHIFT Key and the Edit Button becomes a Delete Button.

Remember the old Days of Safari 4 and 5, there was a cool feature that was observing Websites for changes and if there were any, it was indicated by a blue star in the top right corner, unfortunately, this was soon removed and never returned, till now!

TopPicks for Safari has the ability to monitor Websites for changes and if it finds any, it will indicate this as well, but before explaining the usage, please note this:

The website you want to monitor needs a way to advertise its content in a common way, speaking of RSS Feeds, TopPicks for Safari will use these Feeds and compare the latest entry in this Feed to check if there was an update since the last check, so this Feature will work only for Websites that support such features out of the box, this said, Websites like Youtube or any other social media Websites won't support this, but probably any Blog or news ticker will do.

Also please keep in mind, some Websites do not match the Content of their Website and their RSS Feed immediately, there might be a caching delay, so sometimes it may occurs TopPicks says it has new Content but it is not yet visible on the Website, this issue occurred to me during development, at least sometimes...

The next time you open TopPicks and it discovered a change, a red ribbon will appear in the top left corner above the Website Thumbnail and the whole Tile starts to wiggle for a short moment to get your attention.

Usage:

Whenever you setup a Website, click the Preload Button, it will automatically prepare the Thumbnail, collect the Website Title/Caption and check for RSS Feeds.

If it doesn't find any, the "Monitor" Option will remain disabled, if it finds just one Feed, the Option will enable automatically and you can toggle it on or off, but here comes the best part:

If a Website has multiple RSS Feeds like e.g. "newest news", "recent comments" and so on, TopPicks for Safari will display a Picker for which RSS Feed you want to monitor, so you can decide what your point of interest is.

Setting this up does not require a "Save" Action, these Settings are instant, you can simply close the Editor Window and you are good to go.

TopPicks also adds the Safari 14’s Wallpaper Feature to all Safari Versions suitable for TopPicks for Safari, choose a System Wallpaper from MacOS or pick your own Image, set if tiled or not and you are good to go.

What does tiled mean?:

By default, the chosen Image will auto scale up to fill the whole area if tiled is off, if you turn tiled ON, the Image will be repeated vertically and horizontally to fill up the entire Window, the purpose of this is simple:

There are plenty of pattern and tile Image on the Internet you can search for, these are small parts of Images that can be repeated very well to fill an Area and not to load a huge Image instead, its a great playground area for sure.