An easy way to reorder alphabetically sorted Google Toolbar bookmarks

The feature I like the most about Google Toolbar is bookmark synchronization — I can keep my bookmarks the same across multiple computers.

When you add a bookmark, you can give it a label, much like how you can label e-mails in Gmail.

Then, when you click the toolbar button to access your bookmarks, Google Toolbar shows the labels sorted by either alphabetical order or by date modified.

What if you use alphabetical sorting (the default), but you want some labels out of alphabetical order — say, to add a few categories near the top so you can find them more quickly?

Simple! Just add a minus sign or an asterisk in front of the label name.

Google bookmark labels that begin with a minus sign rank higher than those that begin with an asterisk, which rank higher than labels beginning with the letter A.

If you want to send a label to the bottom of the list, try the little-used tilde (~) character in front of a label.

Each of the various keyboard characters has a different rank in the hierarchy; I don’t know all of them. There is probably a chart somewhere that lists the order of all the characters.

I know that a minus sign is above an asterisk, which is above the letter A, and a tilde puts anything under the normal A-Z order.

Beyond that, just try experimenting to see which ones you like best.