Calling names, hygiene, and other grooming matters

(on the good use of bookmarks)

Right-clicking is for llamas:

Yeah yeah, everyone does it, so it can't be all bad, right ?
Well, everybody farts, too, and look where's the ozone layer now !

...ok, bad analogy.

Seriously, right clicking is good enough if you are a noob in secure space with no BMs in your library but that 'kill the bat in the sewer' mission one.
When you are in the middle of a mess in a low-sec system you own 10+ BMs for, you don't want to have your right-click stubbornly select the big gate/POI nearby when you need to warp now, not Soon™.
...I can see the nodding heads of fresh-outta-cuve clones around, so I'll carry on.

The "People and Places" window and its folders are your friends.
By double-clicking on a folder, you'll open its 'Group window' which, just like most windows can be stacked, resized, etc.
I recommend creating a folder by region, then a couple specific folders for common tasks, which can be distinguished for clarity's sake by using a prefix or brackets, ie:

[Mission]

[Trade]

[Misc]

[Temp]

Citadel

Essence

Forge

...

Note how the preposition on some regions is stripped ('Forge' instead of 'The Forge') ; thus helping legibility when several folders are tabbed in the same window.

Speaking of tabs, you can then set a window somewhere on your main display to arrange your 'Group windows' in.
This window we'll call 'Navigation window'.
A common purpose of insta-BMs is to shorten the time it takes for long trips and/or shuttling between places, and for this task, tabbed folders beat right-clicking with a large trout.
Set your autopilot for the route, and simply have the relevant region folders open in your Nav window.

Let's look at a typical travel on instas, using right-click:

1 - Set autopilot route.
2 - Launch if needed.
3 - Right-click ->
4 -> go down the menu to your local boomarks ->
5 -> find the proper BM ->
6 -> Select warp to ...
7 - During warp, engage autopilot.
8 - Once on gate, wait for for the Jumping message to show up and turn off AP
9 - Wait for next system to load, then return to step 3 above.

Now, the same using Group folders and Navigation window:

1 - Set autopilot route.
2 - Launch if needed.
3 - Open the correct folder(s) ->
4 -> Scroll to the current system/BM ->
5 -> Select warp to ...
6 -> During warp, engage autopilot.
7 - Select next system/BM
8 - Once on gate, wait for for the Jumping message to show up and turn off AP
9 - Wait for next system to load, then return to step 5 above.

While the initial sequence is about as long, you can see from the above how using a Navigation window can be much faster than using right-click for traveling purposes:
- First, you use the low-intensity warp time to prepare for next system's warp, and can activate it the instant you exit the gate.
- Second, yet about as critical, you aren't dependant on context to properly select the correct bookmark, no matter how crowded the area around your ship.

Also, in case of trouble, you can check at a glance what local BMs are available to you via the Nav window (easier since Exodus, as the local BMs will be green colored in the Navigation window list).

As of patch 3211, listing by Jumps is a viable option and makes for more comfy travel as the UI takes care of selecting local BMs for you. It is also arguably more flexible as every nearby systems BMs will be just a few wheel scrolls away at any time.

1 - Set autopilot route.
2 - Launch if needed.
3 - Open the correct folder(s) and make sure it's sorted by jumps ->
4 -> Select the relevant BM from the current system at top of the list ->
5 -> Select warp to ...
6 -> During warp, engage autopilot.
7 - Once on gate, wait for for the Jumping message to show up and turn off AP
8 - Wait for next system to load, then return to step 4 above.

The only downside for the time-conscious traveller is how listing by jumps depends on UI update to bring up the relevant BMs in the Group Window on entering each new system, which is less efficient than the "list by label and scroll" model described above when it comes to pure travel speed.

Of course, using a Navigation window requires BMs to follow naming schemes to enable efficient listing by system.

Let's have a look at this, shall we ?