The Epiphany bookmark system is quite different from the hierarchical file folder method used by most browsers. This design is in keeping with two design principles: Selaimen käyttöliittymän tulee olla mahdollisimman yksinkertainen.Käyttäjän ei tarvitse muistaa osoitteita sivustoille, joita haluaa katsella.The hierarchical way of organising bookmarks does not work well for most people. Instead of this approach, Epiphany follows a database like approach. An address related to a bookmark is stored with some metadata associated with it. This metadata is then used to retrieve a bookmark later. Future versions of Epiphany will provide useful ways of searching for and retrieving bookmarks using this database.In the Epiphany bookmark system, addresses are organised by associating each address with one or more topic. For example, if one were to store a bookmark for GNOME Developers home page, in any other browser, the user might store it under the following hierarchy:
Development -> GNOME -> GNOME developers home page
In Epiphany, the same page could be associated with two topics:
Development -> GNOME developers home page
GNOME -> GNOME developers home page
Now the user can access this bookmark by typing the topic "GNOME" or "Development" in the location bar. The user can also type in any of the words "GNOME", "developers", "home" or "page" in the location bar. Either of these methods drops a list containing the required bookmark. For all ways to access bookmarks, see Epiphany allows only a single level of topics. Topics cannot have sub-topics.
