When a site offers a microsummary (a regularly updated summary of the premier information on a given internet page), people can create a bookmark with a "Dynamic Title", otherwise known as so-called "Live Title".
These Dynamic Titles are compact enough to fit in an area which is available to a typical bookmark label, dashboard, pager, PDA, or desktop notification.
Dynamic Titles display helpful information about pages than static page titles, and are regularly updated with current and latest information.
Unlike RSS, Dynamic Titles are temporary, and are subjected to instant changes and updates that are intended to be quick, short and ephemeral, and are not meant to be permamaent, because they only represent concerns of current moments.
Compared to the messaging and telecommunication system of XMPP, RSS may be regarded as consistent "presence" messages, and Dynamic Titles can be regarded as temporary "regular" messages.
The change rate of Dynamic Titles is typically shorter and more frequent than of RSS.
There are various of sites that can be bookmarked with Dynamic Titles, and Rivitsa offers this capability as well.
Usage
Whether you manage a Sunday service of a Church, and you want to advertize the number of members who are expected to attend at next service; or advertize of products of an auction, garage sale, or inventory store; or advertize items of catalogues such as arts, music, poems, songs, or words; or advertise of current geographical data or weather forecast.
The possibilities are indeed vast and useful.
It is recommended for catalogues (e.g. "word of the day"), forums, publications, trackers, et cetera, to utilize Dynamic Titles as a secondary mean to RSS.
Code
Example code of a microsummary.
Metadata and plain text
In file /index.xhtml add this code inside the element <head></head>.
<link href="/index.txt"
rel="microsummary"
type="text/plain; charset=utf-8">Create a file /index.txt and add this note.
Community choir gathering is set to next Tuesday.
Of course, it would be more productive that the data file /index.txt would be updated automatically, unless you have a special requirement to update it manually.
Upon adding a bookmark of page /index.xhtml internet browsers that support Dynamic Titles would prompt to utilize the static or the dynamic title of a given page.
Microsummaries XML namespace
The secondary fashion is to have an XML file which would have the directives to extract the desired data. This is particularly helpful when the subject page, which has the desired data, has no support for microsummaries, yet.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="microsummary.xslt" type="text/xsl"?>
<generator xmlns="http://mozilla.org/microsummaries/0.1" name="Slixfeed version check">
<pages>
<include>https://git.xmpp-it.net/sch/Slixfeed/src/branch/master/slixfeed.doap</include>
</pages>
<update interval="30"/>
<template>
<transform xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<output method="text"/>
<template match="/">
<value-of select="normalize-space(string(//version))"/>
</template>
</transform>
</template>
</generator>Adding the URL of that XML file will create a bookmark which would display the current version of Slixfeed news service.
Examples
Type of contexts, pages, and possible microsummaries.
Activity
Community activity name; and time remaining.
🎾 Tennis - 2 hours and 14 minutes left
Version check
Project name; commit number; and commit date.
Slixfeed - b23ae16657 - 2025-07-06 11:17:21 +03:00
Auction
Item name; current highest bid; and time remaining.
💻 Purism Librem 15 - $300 - 1 day left
BitTorrent
Latest completed torrent.
🎞 The News-Benders (1968)
Broadcast
Production name; radio show name; host name; and time remaining for show start.
RLM: Behind The Woodshed - Hal Anthony - 17 minutes countdown
Countdown
Number of days to an event.
42 days left
Events
Event name; subject name; current number of attendeed; and speaker.
FOSDEM 2025 - Nostr - 1272 attendeed - Wouter Constant
Firewall server
Component name; sum of blocked advertisements; sumof blocked scripts; and state.
pi-hole: 53427 ads - 3456 scripts - updating database
Component name; number of blocked IP addresses; and current mode.
OpenWRT: 548 blocked - deny incomming
Forum thread
Thread name; number of comments; and last commenter.
Movim interoperability with the Libervia Forums system- 162 comments - Goffi
Freight shipment
Product name; package number; status; current mean; and current place.
7 ounce of gold - 53FT92437HA - shipping - armored trucks - Khazakhstan
Fundraise
Sum of fund; and number of people who pledged.
🪙 784,957 Monero - 13,623 supporters
Gaming server
AssaultCube CLA versus RVSF playing Capture The Flag.
Game name; rivals; and score.
CTF: 🔴 １５ 🔵 １９
CLA: １５; RVSF: １９ (CTF)
AssaultCube statistics.
Sum of player; and sum of spectators.
8578 (37 spectators)
Gathering quorum
Current number of expected attendeed; and pastor name.
47 attendeed - Peter J. Fuentes
IP address check
Protocol version; and address.
IPv4: 127.0.0.1
IRC channel
Number of participants.
362 participants
MOTD
Message of the day.
Deyr fé deyja frændr deyr sjálfr it sama ek veit einn at aldri deyr dómr um dauðan hvern.
—Hávamál v78
News site
Programme name; and latest headline.
NLnet NGI0: A succesful experiment of a homebrew printed RISC-V processor
Poll
Left 38:62 Right
Product for sale
Product name; current price; and availability.
MNT Reform - $430 - 608 units in stock
Profile
Contact name; activity (XEP-0108); and mood (XEP-0107).
Erika: ⛷ skiing - 🤨 serious
Rating
Rating level.
🌟🌟🌟🌟⭐
Risk alert
District name; danger level, or type; details about danger; and advisory.
PE: 🚗 1 car accident - 0 casualties
PH: 🚨 7 armed drones - 4 casualties - remain underground
SN: 🔥 2 square miles - 0 casualties - escapement from road 41
TX: 🌊 4 square miles - 30 missing - escapement from Mount Clara
Stock quote
Stock price and movement.
MNT: 732.74 + 0.15 ⬆
Streaming server
MPD currently played concerto.
🎼 Antonio Vivaldi - Autunno - Adagio molto
Icecast currently played show.
🎙 Tales from Babylon - Military Disability
Support ticket
Ticket number; status; owner; and ETA.
ConverseJS - In progress - JCBrand - ETA: 4 days 3 hours
System monitor
Component name; temperature; and current state.
CPU: 🟡 25℃ (working)
CPU: 🔴 75℃ (critical)
Component name; I/O rate; and current state.
Disk: Reading: 🟢 4KiB/s (routine) - Writing: 🟠 35MiB/s (high)
Turnament
Player name; and current score.
Mike 🯷🯱 - 🯸🯴 Doug
Racer name; and current place.
1st: Mike.C - 2nd: Doug.O - 3rd: Lee.R - 4th: Hal.A
Version check
Software name; and version number.
Gajim - version 0.16.1
Viking word of the day
Norse word of the day.
Vindauga (lit. “wind-eye”)
Weather report
Country name; temperature; and current forecast.
PA: 🌤 25℃ (mostly sunny)
Conclusion
Typically, a bookmark title will be the page title and will not change.
Dynamic titles offer automatically updating bookmark titles of specific information of a given page.
For example, if you were bookmarking an online auction, the title might inform you of the current highest bid and the period of time for which the auction will be open for.
In that manner, you do not have to keep visiting the site to see that information, and, instead, you can gaze at a bookmark (dynamic) title, and by that to have subtle updates about occasional concerns.
Microsummaries are helpful, useful, and cheap to maintain.
Post script
While microsummaries were initially made for bookmarks, they are also usable for dashboards, desktops and other software of other types and environments.