How to use Opera’s Speed Dial to quickly get to your favorite sites

I recently wrote about how the new Opera One is an exciting new path for web browsers everywhere. I've been using the browser as my default for a while now and (minus the random crashes that are associated with early-release software), I'm just as impressed now as I was then. 

Also: What is the Opera Personal News feature and how do you use it? 

One feature of Opera that I had a tendency to ignore was Speed Dial. And although Opera One hasn't really changed that feature much, it has served as a reminder about how useful it is. And now that Opera One has become my (current) default web browser, I've started to see just how useful Speed Dial is.

What is Speed Dial?

Speed Dial adds a bookmark section to Opera's Start page. Of course, there's more than just Speed Dial on your Start page. You'll find a section that lets you pick up where you left off shopping, and it also adds suggestions into the mix. These suggestions aren't chosen based on the collection of data, but on sites you've frequently visited. So think of Suggestions more along the lines of suggestions to be added to Speed Dial. 

I want to show you how to manage the Speed Dial feature on Opera One (which is also applicable to the standard Opera browser). Once you've taken care of this, you'll find you use Speed Dial more than you expected.

How to configure Speed Dial

What you'll need: To make this work, you'll need a running instance of either Opera or Opera One. I'll demonstrate on the desktop version of Opera One, but the feature is found in Opera and Opera Mobile.

And that's how you manage the Opera Speed Dial feature. Once you start using this section of the Start page, you'll find you use the bookmarks feature less and less. One final tip I'll add is that you can drag the tiles in Speed Dial to organize them how you want. With this in mind, you can categorize your tiles in rows. You might have a row for news, one for shopping, one for social sites, etc. With just the slightest bit of creativity, you can take Opera's Speed Dial feature to new heights of efficiency.