Saving your favourites on the Tracker directory

When you first arrive at a large companion directory, the sheer number of profiles can feel a little overwhelming. Sydney alone throws up hundreds of listings, and Melbourne adds another layer once you start exploring suburbs from Carlton down to St Kilda. The bookmark feature is the simplest way to turn that long scroll into a tidy shortlist you can come back to whenever you want, and it is built into almost every screen on the site.

Tracker designed the save function to work the same way across phones, tablets, and laptops. That matters for an Australian audience that might check listings on a Sydney ferry commute, browse at a Brisbane café during arvo tea, then reopen the same shortlist at home in Adelaide on a bigger screen. As long as you are signed in, your saved entries travel with you and stay in sync the whole time.

The rest of this guide walks through where to find the bookmark button, how to organise your collection by city or service type, what happens to your privacy when you share a link, and a few small habits that keep your favourites list useful over the long haul.

Finding the bookmark icon on a profile

The bookmark control usually appears as a small heart or ribbon icon in the top-right corner of a profile card. On the full profile page it sits beside the share and contact buttons, so it does not crowd the photo gallery. Tapping once adds the entry to your saved list, and tapping again removes it. The icon fills in when the profile is already saved, which gives you a quick visual check without opening your collection.

If you are browsing from a desktop, hover over the icon to see the label "Save to favourites". On mobile, the same action opens a short menu asking whether you want to add the profile to a default list or one you have already created. The default list is usually called "My favourites" and can be renamed later in your account settings. The behaviour stays the same whether the listing belongs to an independent companion or to a rostered agency, which is worth knowing if you prefer to keep both categories in separate folders.

Many Australian users first encounter the feature while looking at a profile they liked on the home page. The directory also includes the same button on search results, agency pages, and editorial write-ups, so if you read a city guide about Brisbane's Fortitude Valley scene and want to remember it later you can save the article in exactly the same way you would save a profile.

Setting up your account so bookmarks work properly

Bookmarks only sync between devices once you are signed in. If you have been browsing as a guest, the directory stores your saves in your browser's local storage and they will disappear the moment you clear your cache. Creating an account is free and only takes an email and a password, although you can also sign in through a linked social account. Once you have an account, every profile you bookmark is stored on the server and follows you across browsers.

It also helps to verify your email early. Australian users sometimes bounce between Optus, Telstra, and TPG mail servers, and a confirmed address prevents the rare drop in notification delivery that can happen when a confirmation email is filtered as spam. Verified accounts also gain access to a small notes field that sits beside each saved profile, which is handy for jotting down first impressions or dates met.

Spend a minute in the settings panel adjusting notification preferences. You can choose to be told when a saved companion updates their availability, posts new photos, or changes their rates. Some users in Western Australia, where Perth listings tend to update around the start of the working week, prefer weekly digests rather than real-time alerts, so this is a personal call.

Organising saved profiles by city and category

Once you have more than a handful of saves, the real value of the bookmark feature shows up in its folder system. Tracker lets you create custom lists, which is useful because the Australian market is heavily state-based. A list called "Sydney CBD" will feel very different from one labelled "Melbourne bayside" or "Brisbane Valley". Naming folders after suburbs, rather than just the city, makes it easier to plan evenings out or weekend trips between, say, Sydney and the Central Coast.

You can also tag saved profiles with custom tags such as "weekday arvo", "touring", "verified", or "GFE-focused". Tags act like a second layer of organisation and show up as filter chips at the top of your saved list. If you are heading to Darwin during the dry season and want to know which companions are usually touring up there at the same time, a quick tag filter will narrow things down in seconds.

Renaming or deleting a folder is straightforward from the dashboard. Keep in mind that deleting a folder does not delete the profiles inside it; they simply move back to your main list. If you do want to remove a profile permanently, open the bookmark and tap "Remove from favourites" rather than the folder delete option, which only clears the grouping.

Using bookmarks across phones, tablets and laptops

The directory's mobile apps push your bookmark list in real time, which means a save made on your laptop at home will appear on your phone within a few seconds the next time you open the app. This is especially useful for Australians who commute on Melbourne trams, the Sydney harbour ferries, or the Brisbane CityCats and want to flick through their shortlist offline. The mobile cache keeps the last fifty saved profiles accessible even if you lose signal in a tunnel or out on a regional drive.

On a tablet, the saved list reads well in landscape mode because each row shows the thumbnail, the suburb, and a short tag summary. On a laptop, you can open your saved list in a sidebar while you keep browsing new search results, which makes it easier to compare two profiles side by side. Dragging a profile from the search page straight into one of your folders is supported in the desktop interface and saves you from opening each entry individually.

If you use a privacy-focused browser or a VPN, you might notice that the desktop and mobile views occasionally disagree about which profiles are saved. Logging out and back in usually clears this up, because the directory refreshes its sync token at that point. The same fix resolves issues with old bookmark icons appearing greyed out after a site redesign.

Sharing and privacy considerations

Bookmarks are private by default. Only you can see your saved list unless you deliberately share it. The share button beside each saved entry generates a private link that does not include your name or email. Recipients see the profile, the agency, or the article you wanted to point them to, but they do not see your notes or your other saves. This is a useful way to send a single recommendation to a friend without exposing your wider list.

If you co-ordinate bookings with a partner, the shared collection feature lets two accounts see the same folder. Both of you can add or remove entries, and there is a small audit log that shows who made each change. Australian users sometimes ask whether shared collections can be exported, and the answer is yes, in CSV form, which is handy if you want to keep a private offline record on a home computer.

Be mindful that deleting a profile from a shared folder notifies the other person. The directory treats this as a destructive action and confirms the choice twice to avoid accidental removals. If you only want to remove something from your personal view without affecting a shared collection, use the "Hide from my view" toggle instead, which keeps the entry in the folder but out of your own feed.

Bookmarks for editorial pieces, forums and videos

The bookmark feature is not limited to companion profiles. Editorial pieces about etiquette, communication, and safety can be saved in exactly the same way, which is helpful if you want to revisit an article about boundary-setting before meeting someone new. Forum threads often contain long discussions that run over several days, and saving them is a quick way to mark your place without having to scroll back through a topic each visit.

Videos and gallery pages can also be bookmarked. The site's music journalism arm includes interviews and live session footage from Portuguese and international artists, and saving a favourite piece means you can return to it without having to dig through the archive again. The same applies to photo galleries attached to agency or companion profiles, where you might want to revisit a particular shoot later.

From your dashboard, you can filter saved items by content type, which keeps articles, profiles, and forum threads in their own columns. Some Australian users like to keep a small folder called "Reading list" for long-form pieces they want to come back to during a quiet Sunday, while others maintain a separate folder for music journalism from the Lisbon scene and the wider Portuguese diaspora.

Troubleshooting common bookmark issues

If a saved profile appears in your list but the icon on the profile page itself looks empty, the listing has usually been refreshed or temporarily withdrawn by the companion. Tracker keeps the bookmark entry in place for a short grace period so you can check whether the profile returns. If it does not come back after a few days, the entry quietly disappears from your collection.

Slow syncing between devices is almost always caused by a weak connection or a stale cache. Force-closing the mobile app and reopening it forces a fresh sync, which clears the queue within a minute. On a laptop, hard-refreshing the page (Ctrl + F5 on Windows or Cmd + Shift + R on a Mac) pulls the latest saved list from the server. If syncing still fails after that, clearing site data from your browser settings and signing back in will reset the connection entirely.

If you find your bookmark count climbing faster than you can manage, take ten minutes over a brekkie on the weekend and prune the list. Remove anything you would not actually book, rename folders that no longer match your habits, and add tags to the profiles you want to keep. A short, tidy list is far more useful than a sprawling one full of entries you have already forgotten about.

Habits that keep your saved list useful

• Name folders after suburbs or occasions rather than generic categories, so a glance tells you what each list is for.
• Use tags for service preferences and time windows, such as "weekday arvo" or "after-footy", to filter quickly later on.
• Review your collection once a month and remove profiles you would not actually book, keeping the list honest.
• Turn on update alerts only for companions you have already met, to avoid being notified about every minor change.
• Keep one private folder and one shared folder if you coordinate with a partner, so personal notes stay separate.
• Export your list as a CSV backup occasionally if you want an offline copy on your home drive.
• Use the notes field on each saved profile to record first impressions, dates met, or small reminders for next time.