bookmark
n. countablen. a saved link to a website so you can find it again quickly. It can also be a physical object like a piece of paper used to mark your place in a book. In computing, a bookmark is a saved location in a document or file that lets you jump back to a specific point instantly.
n. a record of a website's address stored in a browser for easy retrieval; also a physical marker used to indicate a reader's progress in a printed text. In software applications like PDF readers or word processors, a bookmark is a digital marker used to navigate to a specific section or page within a document.
I saved the recipe as a bookmark in my browser.
Organising your bookmarks into folders makes it much easier to manage the dozens of research sites you visit daily.
While digital bookmarks allow for instantaneous navigation across the web, many readers still prefer the tactile satisfaction of a silk bookmark resting between the pages of a hardcover novel.
From Middle English boke-merk, boke-merke (attested only in the bare form merk (“bookmark”)), equivalent to book + mark. Cognate with Danish bogmærke (“bookmark”), Swedish bokmärke (“bookmark”), Norwegian bokmerke (“bookmark”), Icelandic bókamerki (“bookmark”). Eclipsed non-native Old English æstel (“bookmark”), from Old Irish astal, from Latin hastula (“little spear, splint”).
In computing, often used with the verb 'to add' or 'to save'.