A frequently used dictionary or reference book has a dog-eared, well-thumbed appearance and falls open naturally on often-used pages.
I'd like this to happen to word-processor documents too - the scroll-bar should 'stick' slightly at parts of the document you frequently visit.
-- hippo, Oct 19 2000

Acrobat is a bad idea poorly executed anyway...Why make it even MORE annoying?
-- StarChaser, Oct 19 2000


Like bookmarks, yes - but automated.
-- hippo, Oct 20 2000


And the most used pages should be easily identifiable by the virtual coffee stains
-- goff, Oct 20 2000


Well, dude, peter. I think you could turn it off. This would be great for etexts. (I often read long texts like plays online and wish they would do this . . .)
-- futurebird, Feb 17 2001


Ya didn't trademark the thumb...
-- thumbwax, Feb 17 2001


...and how would you convert the concept of sticky pages in a well-used xxx mag to an xxx website?
-- anselda, May 03 2001


They already do that, when you try to close/let go, they stick to your fingers/reopen your browser.
-- StarChaser, May 04 2001


I am happy to re-bun this idea (following the crash of 1994). A positive effect of this idea is that, when passing through 100 occurrences of the same search word in a document to find the one you want, you could use the grease stains/yellowing of the page around the commonly looked-up entry to more quickly tell whether you are at the right one.
-- phundug, Jan 05 2007


I'd like it, sometimes. But, sometimes, I'd definatley want to shut it off. It should be a toggle switch in the word processing application, or I would always have it disabled. [+]
-- flynn, Jan 06 2007



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