Simply put, a bag is a collection of links to webpages and other bags.The idea is to create a bag for any topic you want, and then add related webpages to that bag. For example, you could create a bag called "Recipes" and use it to collect links to your favorite recipes.

The Bag it bookmarklet is a tool that makes it easy to add webpages and bags into your bags. Best of all, you can use it from anywhere on the web, not just on bagtheweb.com.

Click the "create" navigation tab, which brings you to a page with a simple form. Try to enter a good title and description.Click "submit" to create the bag. Now you can start adding links.

From any webpage, click on the Bag it bookmarklet tool that you saved to your favorites. Click the "add to new bag" tab on the bookmarklet. The form will change to allow you to enter a title and description for the new bag. When you click "create" the current webpage will be saved to the new bag.

The easiest way to bag webpages is to use the bookmarklet. When you are surfing the web and find a page you want to bag, click the Bag it bookmarklet.The page title and description are automatically filled in for you. Under that you will see a list of all your bags. When you click a bag the current webpage will be added into the bag you selected - a process we like to call bagging.

On a bag page that you own, click the "+ link" button near the "Webpage links" section. Paste or type in the webpage url into the form that pops up. It's nice to include a title and description for the link too, but those are optional.

On a bag page that you own, scroll down to the "suggest links" section. If you see a result that you'd like to add to this bag, click the "add to bag" button next to that result item.

When viewing any bag on bagtheweb.com, click the Bag it bookmarklet. The Bag it popup window shows the title of the bag you're looking at, followed by a list of your bags. Click one of these bags to add the current bag into your bag.

On a bag page that you own, scroll down to the "suggest links" section. If you see a result that you'd like to add to this bag, click the "add to bag" button next to that result item.

A post is an easy way to create public content directly on BagTheWeb.com. Use it for anything from writing simple notes to blog-like stories and articles. A postcan be linked to any bag just like a normal webpage. Sure, you can create a blog or other content on another site and link it to your bag. But a post is very quick and easy to create, and you don't need to sign up or log in to another site.To create a post , go to the bag where you want the post to be linked (you must be the bag owner). In the "Linked webpages" section, click the "+ post" button.

By default, bags are public. But when you create a bag you can choose to make it private by clicking the "make this bag private" checkbox. You will notice a small red "lock" icon next to the bag title, which lets you know that YOU can see the bag but nobody else can. A private bag is a good place to put things you don't want your friends to see, like what you're getting them for their birthday. Its NOT meant to store super-top-secret stuff like nuclear launch codes!

If a bag gets too big it can be hard to quickly find stuff. It's time move some of the links into some new bags. Then the related bags can be linked together to create an organized web of information.

If you're looking at a webpage other than a bag, then the bookmarklet will use "bag a webpage mode" to let you link a webpage into one of your bags.

However, if you're viewing a bag page on bagtheweb.com and you click the bookmarklet, you will see "bag a bag mode" (yeah its a bit of a mouthful). The bookmarklet noticed you're on a bag page, and assumes you want to link two bags together, as opposed to linking a simple webpage to a bag.

By following baggers you like, you can keep track of the bags they create, update and recommend.You can click the “follow” button located in the bagger profile section on a bag page. Or, go to a bagger’s profile page to click the “follow” button there.

You can recommend bags to your followers in a way similar to how your tweets are seen by your followers on Twitter. By clicking the “recommend” button on a bag page, you can share any bag you see with your followers, no matter if you are the bag’s creator or not. When recommending a bag, you can add a comment in the small dialog box. The comment will be added to that bag’s Comments section. If you type a hashtag in the comment using the '#' symbol, the hashtag will be automatically retrieved for display.

When you are signed in, your homepage displays your "bagstream." On that page, you see all the bags recommended or published by you and the baggers you follow. You can control this stream of bags by following and unfollowing baggers.