If you're a manual bookmarks fellow/lass[1], then you're
most certainly interested in having more than one local
bookmark file. Thankfully, this is quite easy with VF-1,
your obvious gopher client of choice[2].

As you already know, having read link [1], VF-1 reads the
bookmark file as if it were the output of a gopher server.
Therefore, the contents of the bookmark file follow the spec
in RFC 1436, more or less. This means you can link to other
text files in your local filesystem, in your efforts to
deepen and complexificate your local gopher bookmark
structure.

In order for it to work (as of 4/6/2018), you have to us the
directory item type ("1") and the full path to your text
file. You won't be specifying a server or a port (unless you
are running a local gopher server, but still, don't.) You
*will* need to keep the trailing <tab> characters, for
things to process properly. It looks like this:

1More Links<tab>/home/user/.vf1-more.txt<tab><tab>

This works because at line 211 in vf1.py (as of 4/6/2018),
VF-1 asks if gi.host is set, processing it as a local
file if not... and as you can see above, we've got nothing
between the two tabs where a hostname would normally be.

In this fashion, one could have as many local bookmark files
as they wanted, for every category of bookmarks they
desired. It's a great way to over-complicate something that
is far too simple out-of-the-box.

[1] gopher://circumlunar.space:70/0/~tfurrows/tips/vf1_manual_bookmarks.txt
[2] https://github.com/solderpunk/VF-1

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