I just used ‘whole thread’ if more context was needed when viewing a post. No need to have the entire board threaded.
And definitely no need to always see entire contents of a post unless looking for that extra context.
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That’s nice to know. But the obvious follow up question, “How do I do that?” is left unanswered. More specifically:
How do I bookmark my own post?
How do I set a time to be reminded?
How do I see my posts via the “My Posts” in the sidebar?
What is a sidebar anyway?
None of these answers are obvious by looking at the screen.
I see you posting like this in many different places, and I’m sure you’re trying to be helpful. But most of the frustration is in not knowing HOW to do these many different things. An immediate suggestion to you would be to show folks how to do these things rather than just saying they can be done.
And let me try to help by answering the ones I know.
Sidebar
You get to the sidebar by clicking or tapping on the three parallel lines in the dark blue banner at the top of your screen. If you are on a desk top computer, I can see no good reason to ever close it again. On mobile devices, it’s a pop up and will close itself once you make a selection. So you’ll need to be tapping on those three parallel lines a lot. (BTW, those lines are often called the “hamburger menu”. Other software uses them as well - probably including your web browser.)
My Posts will be one of the available options on your sidebar. It’s under the Community heading - you might need to click on that heading to open it up and see the available choices.
Sorry, I don’t know how to bookmark a post, so I’ll leave that to you, Wayne.
–Peter
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Well I hope Mungo let’s us know where he’s migrating to if he leaves these boards (which I wouldn’t blame him). He was 25% of the reason I read the old fool so I will jump to wherever he goes… Reddit… bogleheads… wherever.
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to bookmark a post, which i just discovered, click on the three dots at the bottom of the post on the right. Choose the bookmark icon and another menu opens, but i didn’t memorize it, yet, so it has something to do with a time for how long to keep the bookmark. Handy some things are but hard to find. maybe after a couple of months, it will be easier! 
O man! I just did an emoji! Jeeez.
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At the bottom of each post, there are a few icons. Click on the “…”
It expands to show two more icons, Report Post and Bookmark. Click the bookmark.
The “Create bookmark” window then appears. You can give it a name to identify it. You can also set a reminder, so the system can remind you of the bookmark in the future. Click Save when done.
To access your bookmarks, click on your profile icon, then the bookmark icon. This brings up a list of all your bookmarks. Clicking the bookmark icon again takes you to a dedicated bookmark manager, where you can search, edit, delete, etc.
You can edit/delete any current bookmarks by going to the destination, and clicking the bookmark icon on the post/topic.
Let me know if you have any more questions.
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Very impressive! Logic and technique, impeccable! Thanks.
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Well done!! Thank you!!!
'38Packard
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Thanks for the post. Very helpful. However, I bookmarked your reply and put the title of “Fool how to bookmark” so that I’ll know the topic of the post/thread from my perspective. Then when I click on my profile icon and then the bookmark icon a list of bookmarks (only one in my case at this point) appear and, as in your image, it says ‘Where is Mungofitch’. That’s not going to work for me as a prompt given that by tomorrow I won’t be mentally connecting Mungo to a discussion on how to bookmark.
I did notice that if I click on the Where is M thread it then takes me to a page that shows the identifying name I used.
Am I missing something? Thanks
I’m sure Mungofitch is getting acquainted with the new board lay out. I’m adjusting to it and just having a look see for the past 10 minutes, I’ve figured out how to do a couple of things just from reading others posts on how to do things….we help each other on here and yes, you can teach an old dog new tricks! 
Happy to see familiar names on here……ahhh, very comforting.
Lucky Dog
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TMF would be smart to send an email out to all forum users welcoming them to the new forum with step by step instructions of how to do everything they might possibly need to do in the new format, otherwise they are likely to lose a bunch of users from this transition.
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I’m pretty encouraged that this poll has gotten 92 people to vote - not that I care much about the poll itself, but like GH, it’s an indication that some large proportion of the old posters are starting to find there way around this new landscape.
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Thanks, I didn’t notice that. I’ve updated my post for others, and will explain here for you.
Click on your profile icon, then click on the bookmark icon. Your bookmarks show, and the icon has a yellow outline
. Click the icon a second time, and it takes you to your bookmark manager. Here you can see the name you gave it, edit, search, etc.
These shortcuts under your profile are an experimental feature less than two weeks old. It would make more sense for it to display the name you assigned it, instead of the post title. Maybe it will be changed eventually.
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Thanks. If I double click on the bookmark icon it gets me there.
Btw, I like that when I click on the desired thread/bookmark it takes me to your post, the relevant one in the thread, rather than the top of a long thread. Of course, the same may very well have happened on the old setup but I don’t recall!
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TMF would be smart to send an email out to all forum users welcoming them to the new forum with step by step instructions of how to do everything they might possibly need to do in the new format, otherwise they are likely to lose a bunch of users from this transition.
TMF would have been smart to figure out how most users used the old boards, and made the new board work that way. Instead, we have lost a big part of the usability and gotten a bunch of gee-wiz eye-candy fluff clutter.
On the old boards, the my.fool page showed you your favorite boards that had new posts and the count of the new posts. You could go to the board of your choice and read ONLY that board. Now it tells you how many new posts you have on EVERYTHING you are tracking, and presents them to you all intermixed.
Looking at mine right now, in order (top to bottom)…
1 post on Berkshire
2 posts on Dividend Growth Investing
1 post on Berkshire
2 posts on Mechanical Investing
2 posts on Retirement Investing
1 post on Berkshire.
This is a dog’s breakfast. Oh, cool, now we can add emojis. Just what I always wanted—the ability to put juvenile pictures on a (presumably serious) investment site. W.T.F?
Couldn’t find an emoji for barf, here is the closest I could find: 
If I am gone for a few days and come back to find 100 or 200 or 300+ unread posts on one of the boards, I could get a quick, concise one-page overview of the new posts, one line per post, 50 posts per page. Not anymore. I’ll get a frothy 4 line talkative summary of every dam post in every board I follow, all thrown in together without rhyme or reason. Along with useless thumbnail pictures of, I guess, the last 5? posters of each thread.
At least, how about a ONE LINE TEXT summary of each board, and then one click to get a ONE LINE summary of the new posts on that board. Drop the stupid graphics, drop the useless poster thumbnails. Stop throwing everything all together in one pile like a Full English Breakfast. Did I already say “dog’s breakfast”?
Didn’t anybody learn anything from the finance.yahoo fiasco of redoing their portfolio feature. They changed something that was simple and working to something that was spiffy and useless–and the users left in droves.
Phew–now I am going to have a bit of a lie down.
Oh, goody—Now it automatically converts a text smiley – “; - )” – to an emoji smiley. What an important and useful feature. (Hmmph, there does not seem to be an emoji for “droll”.)
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Do you have categories and tags set up?
Here’s mine:
One line for each, tells me how many unread posts.
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How did you get categories to work for you? I haven’t been able to select catagories and save them to a list.
Gee, do you think that maybe it would have been nice for TMF to have set that up in the transition? I mean, they converted all of your favorites and lumped them into “Tracked”, why couldn’t they have set your favorites in Categories, too?
Or maybe writing up a summary of how to do it, so we could know that we need to do it?
Instead, we get this dog’s breakfast … and long-time users running around complaining that this new format sucks and went backwards in user-friendliness and usability.
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TMF didn’t bother, so I took a few minutes (OK - probably a couple hours) to figure it out and write it up. Here is how to add your old favorite boards to what this platform calls the “Sidebar”.
It’s also important to note that if you are a member of a premium service and therefore have access to the premium boards, those are a separate set of boards. So you’ll need to do this once for the free boards and again for the premium boards.
–Peter
PS - Not to defend TMF in any way, but apparently these categories and tags are actually new to the platform they have chosen and is still in beta testing. So we’re all a bunch of beta testers here. Personally, I would have put the transition on hold for a bit just to have a thoroughly implemented version of this feature, and then done the migration using it. But TMF chose to push forward and give us a half-assed transition instead of taking the time to do it right. They deserve all of the pushback they’re getting from their users.
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The categories and tags are not new to the platform, the sidebar is a new feature.
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