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Did you know you could drag and drop an entire link block into a new view? A crosshair appears whenever your mouse is over the title of a block of favorites. Then just left-click on the block — and drag!

When you hold the block over the new view's tab at the top of your page, that tab's border changes from green to red. Then when you release the mouse, the block magically disappears from the current view — and re-appears on the new one!

This is a great way to tidy up your Xerpi home page. You don't always need all your link blocks at the same time. And sometimes having them all cluttered onto one page can even make it harder to spot the ones you need!

I've been trying to look at my favorites differently — thinking of special "sets" of link blocks — and then giving each set its own dedicated view. While I've got many useful blocks of links, sometimes I'll just want one group of those blocks, and other times it's a different group. (Plus, now that Xerpi lets me create public views, I've going to start creating new views with sets of public links.)

Of course you don't have to drag the blocks to a new view — you can also just move them to a different location on the page. (Maybe the first column could be "Morning" link blocks, and the third column could be "Evening" link blocks?) If you're new to Xerpi, you might want to check out this post — Top Ten Ways to Customize Xerpi.

As I was saying back in June — Xerpi can be whatever you want it to be. It's your favorites, and your view of your favorites.

Knock yourself out!