Saved Locations are often called Bookmarks or BMs.

To save a BM of a location, right-click it in space or on the overview → Save Location. To save your ship's current location in space, hit Control + B then Enter.
To access saved BMs: right-click them in space or the Solar System Map (F9), right-click empty space & hover Locations, or use the Locations or Local Locations windows.

L is the default Locations shortcut. Local Locations, which shows only BMs in the current system, is unbound (Escape → Shortcuts → Window → Local Locations).

Bookmark Barn and Jet-Perches sell BM packs for all regions in EVE. I'm unaffiliated.

Click to show/hide some semantic fluff about my terminology.

Safe i.e. safespot best describes a BM intended to hide you or keep you as far from commonly-visited grids as possible.
BMs which are deliberately on or near a grid—so you can see/dscan what's happening there—are better described as bounces, perches, pings, tacs, etc.
Likewise, instadocks and insta-undocks are sufficiently different from either of the above that their terms shouldn't be muddled.

Instadock

These are vital for stations, especially trade hubs, frequent HS haunts and all LS, NS, Pochven and Thera stations. Also nice (but not vital) for structures.
If you don't use instadocks, about half the time you attempt to dock, your ship can be instantly destroyed before it can do so.

Click to show/hide an explanation of why.

clicking Dock on a station > 150 km from your ship makes it warp & attempt docking. however, ~half the time, it must travel an extra 1-2,000 m before it can
- during this short travel time, it can be instantly destroyed by suicidal profiteers in HS or by non-suicidal PvPers outside HS
  - the Jita 4-4 station grid is by far the most dangerous location in EVE and other HS stations and gates follow closely behind
clicking Dock on structures always lands you just inside tether range if you're not interdicted, but warping to an instadock deep inside tether range is smarter

production:
1. if you're in HS and in a player corporation, make sure this crossed swords icon does not appear at the top left (it indicates an active war declaration)
  - if it appears, make an alt for this task and keep it in its starting NPC corp so it can't be wardecced
2. undock in something cheap & fast like one of the fast frigates with a microwarpdrive fitted, and maybe overdrive injectors and/or nanofiber internal structures
3. double-click in space back toward the station model. if more speed is required, activate the microwarpdrive (you can also set a specific speed)
4. save a BM that is:
  1. at 0 distance from the station, as per the Overview
  2. not in a place where a ship will be bumping/jostling against the station's model
    - you can fly into the model to test its boundaries. stations have invisible collision models which are usually quite different from their visible 3D models
  3. at least 5 km inside the docking radius. ships exit warp with their nearest edges randomly placed ~2,500 m from their destination, so account for 5 km variance
    - Larenon en Marland's Station Cyno Placement Guide has screenshots of good instadock placement locations for most NPC stations
    - if the station isn't a kickout, a BM saved right after undocking works as an instadock. always manually position BMs for kickouts, though!
  4. (optional): away from the undock. useful where bubbles can be used (NS and Thera, and possibly LS with an Insurgency) because bubbles can catch or drag you
    - ideally the BM's as far from the undock and as out-of-line with common warp vectors as possible and at least 5 km inside the docking radius, preferably more
      - note: most locations are more-or-less horizontally arranged around stars, but some have a considerable vertical offset as well

usage: warp to the BM instead of the station & dock immediately after exiting warp (activate a nullifier before initiating warp if the situation warrants it)
- if a station or structure is set as your current Route destination, you can warp to an instadock for it then activate Autopilot mid-warp then your ship will auto-dock

Insta-undock

These are also vital for stations, since ships can be destroyed at any station in EVE while aligning for warp after undocking and warping off.

production method 1 is easiest & fastest
1. with a non-wardecced character, undock in a cheap with a probe launcher fitted and loaded with 8 probes ("core" launchers & probes are cheapest)
2. launch the probes in Pinpoint formation and get them on-grid with you
  - you can prepare a saved probe formation for this purpose in a vacant area/system if you want, rather than on the busy Jita undock
3. enable the tactical overlay
4. check if a probe is on the undock vector of the tactical overlay (one usually is) and save it as your undock BM
  - all non-Amarr NPC stations except the Gallente Military have horizontal undock vectors aligned with the forward-facing enumerated vector on the tactical overlay
    - all Amarr stations but one (and the Gallente Military point down). Amarr Station Hubs point up. conveniently, there are probes for up/down vectors, too!
  - note that my undock vector in the clip above is canted by ~15 degrees; that probe would still work as an insta-undock
    - I've never had an undock BM right on the vector fail me in over a decade of play, but if you're paranoid:
      1. make several undock BMs. warp to the first probe, center probes on your ship again, Analyze & save, warp again, etc. maybe save a 3x3 grid or whatever
      2. if you undock at an especially oblique angle, you can generally re-dock & try again, but be careful at kickout stations and in fast-moving ships
production method 2 is for rare cases when you use the probe method but there isn't one reasonably close to the undock vector
1. there will nonetheless be 2 probes on either side of it, so BM & warp between them, saving BMs mid-warp until you get one reasonably-close to the undock vector
production method 3
(click to show/hide. this is slower; mostly preserving this as a historical curiosity)
1. with a non-wardecced character, undock in a fast frigate fitted with a microwarpdrive and maybe overdrive injectors and/or nanofiber internal structures
2. enable the tactical overlay if it's not already
  - if you are not in an Amarr station, the Gallente Military station or the Ancient Jovian Outpost in Zarzakh
    1. orient the camera so you're looking at the back of your ship & have a rear view of the forward-facing numbered line which is aligned with the undock
      the Jita 4-4 CNAP (EVE's main trade hub) has many undocks which point in different directions, not all of which line up with a through-line
      it therefore annoyingly requires several instant-undock BMs. it's the only station like this; all others only need one insta-undock
    2. double-click the 200 at the end of that through-line to make your ship start moving parallel to the undock, then activate your microwarpdrive
      short video of steps 3 & 4
    3. once you're at least 175 km away from the station (but preferably quite a bit further), save your undock BM
  - if you are in an Amarr station or the Gallente Military station, or the Ancient Jovian Outpost in Zarzakh
    1. double-click straight down or up as appropriate, then activate your microwarpdrive and burn, then save your BM
usage: after undocking, warp first to the insta-undock before warping elsewhere (activate a nullifier before initiating warp if the situation warrants it)

Perches

Also called bounces, pings, tacs, tacticals. They're for visually surveying grids, remotely d-scanning, and/or juking interdiction/smartbombers/lancers.

inline on-grid perches are the quickest & easiest to make but least safe
- production:
  1. hit Control + B while you're still in warp to something you want to create a perch on
  2. save the BM when the distance to your destination changes from tens of thousands to thousands
    - you want it to be at least 175 km away in HS/LS (200+ preferable), and at least 500 km (700-2000 preferable) in NS/JS/Pochven to avoid interdiction
unaligned on-grid perches are superior if you have time to make them
- production:
  1. use probes and/or microwarpdrive around to make BMs at useful positions relative to objects of interest
    - if said object is a stargate, it's best to make the perch perpendicular-ish to the line(s) connecting the gates
      - this will let you bypass "stop" and "drag" interdiction and avoid smartbomb camps (stops & drags are explained down in the Specialized BMs section)
      - some gates are not in a shared horizontal plane, i.e. they may be "above" or "below" each other - pay attention when positioning your perches
        straight up and straight down are better than nothing, but it's best to be off at an angle and at least oblique to all obvious warp vectors
        
        non-gate vectors may also be worth considering: stations/structures, planets, moons, landmarks & other beacons, etc
        note: moons' brackets don't show in space by default. press Shift + Alt + X to show them
dscan or offgrid perches let you dscan a grid without directly visiting it
- note: you can use a moon or a nearby beacon as a stand-in for one of these BMs in a pinch
- production method 1: BM a spot mid-warp (quickest)
  1. warp to something in dscan range of your grid of interest and hit Control + B while you're in warp to it
  2. save the BM when you're between 14.3 AU and ~50,000 km away
    - closer minimizes warp-to time whereas farther avoids being one-shot combat probed
      - note that if you're sufficiently-far away from a grid, you can't tell exactly where ships are with dscan (e.g. is the dictor on my outgate or a moon)
- production method 2: use on-grid probes to go off-grid (this lets you make the perch unaligned to anything, which can be useful)
  1. if there's nothing on the grid other than the gate (e.g. gate guns, wrecks), jettison 1 ammo or something cheap so you can tell when you leave the grid
  2. get your formation on-grid and increase its size until a probe in whatever direction you want to move disappears
  3. decrease the formation size one tick, re-Analyze, save that probe as a BM and warp to it
  4. re-Analyze at your new position. if the probe in the direction you wanna travel in disappears, shrink the formation until it re-appears, BM it and warp to it
  5. repeat until you leave the grid. you'll know you've left the grid when the gate guns (or your jetcan or whatever) disappear
    - it may be useful to recall your probes immediately after you warp to every BM then relaunch them after landing
      - grids still stretch & snap. if you keep your probes out while warp-chaining, you may just stretch the grid rather than crossing its boundary
usage: warp to the perch to see, dscan and/or elude what's there
- note: if you're traveling in a low-tank ship, exploring, hunting wormholes, etc, it's good to habitualize warping to on-grid perches instead of gate-to-gate
  - the BM pack sellers up top offer "all known space" packs at rates that are very affordable for establied players. or use my guide to slowly assembly your own
  - it is extremely satisfying to land at perch (because you habitualized warping to perches) and see a smartbombing Machariel who won't get you today
    - if your perch is properly unaligned to everything you can even warp and jump right in front of their face just to rub it in
- you can also warp to a perch before warping to your outbound destination if you suspect a mid-warp smartbomber is operating in the system

Safespots

Often shortened to safes, aka tranquil bivouacs, cozy wilderness campfires... None of these are 100% safe! You can be probed anywhere if uncloaked, except in the Abyss.

inline safes are dropped midwarp just like dscan perches, although you'll want these off dscan from all grids if possible
- if you're not a tremendous dingleberry, you'll appreciate why you might use a dscan perch differently than an ad hoc inline safe. this isn't a pointless distinction
unaligned safes are better since they're harder to reproduce. here's a little image guide for creating them
deepsafes are best. the definition is vague & depends on who you ask. I'd say they're BMs > 14.3 AU (dscan range) from any normally-accessible grid in a system
- this May 2025 patch added Electric Stability Generators. they increase dscan range in sov null to ~17.9 AU. if one's installed, this icon shows above the capacitor
- production method 1: if a Sansha Incursion is occurring in a constellation, you can travel to it and BM its beacons (the BMs will persist after the sites disappear)
  - they're often (but not always) far away from all other celestials in a system & outside dscan range of everything
- production method 2: enter Abyssal Deadspace near downtime, specifically any time between 10:40:30 and 10:59:50 ET, and survive in there until the servers close
  - do not go earlier or later than I suggest or you can die or possibly get yourself banned (more on this below)
  - use a ship & fit which can either tank the filament's DPS until downtime or kill all rats in the first room. you can also clear all rooms & wait/quit in the last one
    - I use Tranquil Gamma. most hulls can be fit to passively omnitank its 75 DPS so you just quit in the Abyss. you can chain this activity on alts
  - when you login after DT, the ship will be at a random spot in the system. placement seems similar to incursion beacons
  - WARNING: if you've made an Abyssal safe and traveled to another system to make more, DO NOT activate a filament after the countdown reaches 10 seconds
    - activate the filament at least 10 s before shutdown or you may "tunnel" to the last system in which you made an Abyssal safe. this is a bannable exploit
      - deepsafing with this mechanic is not an exploit, tunneling is, and tunneling is completely avoided by not activating within 10 s of shutdown
      - I recommend that specific range because of testing I've done. server shutdown can vary between 10 s before the projected time to up to 70 s after
      - once you've crossed DT in the Abyss from a given system, that pilot can no longer tunnel out until it changes systems
usage: gosh, beats me. y'know, sometimes I dream about EVE. please send help

Specialized BMs

A miscellany of BM types. A smorgasbord, a grab-bag, a gallimaufry, even.

station/structure perches are on the grid of a station, 500+ km away and unaligned to everything. used to scope things out or position for dodging bubbles
station/structure interdiction avoidance instadocks are deliberately positioned to dodge bubbles. detailed up top in the "away from the undock" section
- it's not always possible to dodge interdiction to dock, depending on how many bubbles are up and the size of the station (their size varies considerably)
stops aka catches and drags aka pulls or slings
- bubbles at stop BMs interdict ships short of their destinations (i.e. they catch them before they arrive)
- bubbles at drag BMs interdict ships beyond their destinations (i.e. they pull or sling them behind their destinations)
- stops and drags allow one to interdict certain vectors while potentially leaving other vectors uninterdicted, which is tactically useful
- for delaying, it's generally optimal to interdict ships ~90 km from the gate (for standard bubbles, that's 70 km in front for stops and 110 behind for drags)
  - this calculus changes if your targets can microjump and/or are especially fast/slow, but broadly, this forces interdictees to waste as much time as possible
    - either they burn ~60 km away at an angle to avoid the bubble then waste additional time changing direction & warping, or
    - they burn ~90 km straight through the bubble to the gate (longer distance to balance out not losing time to direction change & warp)
bombing: Apothne's On Bomb Geometry remains a worthwhile treatise on this subject and probe bookmarking makes creation of multi-vector setups fast & easy

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