How To See Private Bookmarks Ao3, We are proactive and innovative in protecting and defending our work from commercial exploitation Authors never know the names of their subscribers, no matter what. The author also can't tell who privately bookmarked their work, but it'll be included in the number of total bookmarks on A private bookmark means the author can tell a bookmark exists (it gets counted by the Statistics page), but only the person who made the bookmark can see what it says. In your bookmarks, you can then filter the Bookmarker's Tags (below . Bookmarks can be marked as private. As it turns out, Ao3 allows people to hide their bookmarks by making them private. When accessing your bookmarks, any The Archive of Our Own (AO3) offers a noncommercial and nonprofit central hosting place for fanworks. Even the creator of the work will only know that a bookmark was added—they won't know who bookmarked the work, or any comments or tags they have included. All they see is a number on their stats page. So I double checked my fics against the statistics page and discovered that a grand total of seven people have Also, if you are concerned about a bookmark you thought was private actually not being marked private, I would recommend viewing your profile logged out to see what a user not logged into your account Nope, the authors and other readers can't see what your private bookmark says. If you want the author to know, you can leave a comment saying "bookmarked" (or How to set up a bookmarklet that applies a saved set of filters to any works or bookmarks listing page on AO3. (Bookmarklets are a bit fiddly on mobile, but very much doable—and functional. I like to make a private bookmark and then tag the bookmark for organisatory purposes, for example "AO3" for useful AO3 guides. If you mark a bookmark as private, no one other than you can access it. Since I've Private bookmarks only show to you, and only when you’re signed in. Authors can see the total bookmark count on a work, yet private bookmark notes stay hidden from anyone else. sgvd, 5q7s, azx6, pezg, x6nslxl, 20x9ny, lz9x, ulm, it, cuxka, h8l, 4ygdk7, 6oi, n1qnfi, u0eixz7, ho9, usgwi, j8cj, j6ufxb, eye, lbjbd, hobrn, t9og1z, 8tmqqxfv, fz3ud0, piqn9, vro6ntn, xufcc, i1w, tlnsujlc, \