What is Bookmark?¶

A Bookmark in CartoScope is a persistent, shareable snapshot of your entire workspace configuration that preserves your exact analysis context, making it easy to save progress, collaborate with others, and publish your findings.

What is captured by a bookmark?

A bookmark captures the complete visual and logical state of your active session. This includes:

Active Layers: All selected gene, factor, and background layers, including their ordering and opacity.
Map Viewport: Your current coordinates, zoom level, and custom color scale ranges.
UI State: Any open drawers (Gene, Factor, ROI, Inspect) and layout configurations.
Custom Modifications: User-created Region of Interest (ROI) geometries and custom gene/factor aliases.

Why use bookmarks?

The primary benefit of a bookmark is State Preservation for collaboration and session retrieval:

Preserve Analysis Context: Unlike static maps or generic dataset links, bookmarks ensure collaborators see the exact same view and settings (layers, thresholds, alignments) as you.
Resume Sessions: Pause your exploration and return later on any device without losing your settings.
Attribute Findings: Publicly published bookmarks include your Display Name and Affiliation, making it a citation-ready record of your spatial analysis.