The most powerful bookmark manager you will actually use
Power is worth nothing if saving takes effort. Everything here sits behind a one-tap capture, in four groups: capture, keep, find, own.
Capture
The only step that has to be effortless, because it is the one that happens fifty times a week.
Share sheet from any app
Browser, video app, social feed, notes app — anything with a share button. The link is saved before the sheet finishes closing, with no app switch and no decision about where it goes.
Paste a link
Paste one URL or several at once. Each is fetched and unpacked separately, so a clipboard full of links becomes a folder rather than a wall of text.
Automatic page details
Favourl reads the page for its title, description, preview image and source. A bare URL you would not recognise in six months becomes a card you would.
Keep
Storage that does not depend on a connection, and does not hold your library hostage.
On-device first
Every bookmark is written to your device before anything is sent anywhere. Saving and searching work on a plane, in a lift, on one bar of signal. Sync catches up when it can.
Nested folders, manual order
Folders inside folders, and drag to reorder. The order you set is the order you get back — useful when a folder is a sequence, like the steps of a trip.
Notes on any bookmark
One line about why you kept it. It is the highest-value thing you can add and the thing browser bookmarks have never had.
Dead-link detection
Links that stop resolving are flagged, so a decade-old library can be cleaned in one pass instead of one disappointment at a time.
Find
The half that decides whether saving was worth doing.
Search what it was about
Titles, descriptions, sources and your own notes are all searchable — so you can find something by the thing you remember rather than the words that happened to be in the title.
Filter by folder or source
Narrow to a folder, or to everything you ever saved from one site. Both are one tap, not a query language.
Recent and unsorted
Two views that matter more than they sound: what you just saved, and what you never filed.
Own
The parts that decide whether you can trust it with a decade of links.
Private by default
Nothing is public unless you deliberately publish a folder. Private bookmarks stay private, including from search engines.
Start without an account
Use it immediately. Add an account later only if you want sync across devices — the app is useful before you have given anyone an email address.
Export anytime
Standard HTML, the same format every browser reads. Deliberately as easy to leave as to arrive.
Save and organize bookmarks in folders
Three structures that collapse
Each of these is the first thing people try, and each fails the same way: it asks for a decision at the moment you have least patience for one.
Folders by subject
Design, Marketing, Python, Travel. It reads well and fails immediately, because half of what you save belongs in two of them and you stall deciding which.
Folders by source
YouTube, Twitter, Newsletters. This is how you found it, which is the one thing you never remember later. You remember what it was about.
One folder per project, forever
Projects end. The folder stays, and within a year most of your structure describes work nobody is doing.
Organise by what you will do with it
Four folders, and the question at save time is only ever when will I want this — which you can answer without thinking. Subject gets you nowhere because subjects overlap; intent does not.
- 1
Inbox
Everything lands here. No decision at save time — deciding is what makes people stop saving. This folder is allowed to be messy; it is the only one that is.
- 2
Doing
Links tied to something active this month: a trip you are booking, a thing you are building, a decision you are researching. Small enough to read in one screen.
- 3
Reference
Things you will want again but not soon — documentation, recipes you have actually cooked, the guide you keep re-finding. This is the folder that grows forever, and that is fine because you reach it by search.
- 4
Someday
The honest home for what you saved with enthusiasm and no plan. Keeping it separate stops it diluting Doing, and lets you delete in bulk later without guilt.
The rule that keeps it alive
Empty Inbox once a week, and give it ten minutes, not an evening. Anything you cannot place in ten seconds goes to Someday — that is what it is for. A backlog you feel bad about is a system you will abandon.
Nest only when a folder stops fitting on a screen
Sub-folders are worth it when scanning becomes slower than navigating — in practice, past twenty or thirty items. Before that, nesting adds a decision and buys nothing. Reference is usually the first to need it, and often the only one.
Write the note, not the perfect folder
One line on a link — why you kept it, what you wanted from it — is worth more six months later than any amount of filing. It is also the only part of a bookmark that search can match against how you actually think about the thing.
Import your bookmarks from Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge
Bookmark export has been standardised since Netscape, which is why a file exported from Firefox in 2004 still opens in Chrome today. The format is plain HTML: a nested list of links with their folders and the date each was added. Nothing is lost in the move.
Step 1 — export from your browser
Google ChromeWindows, macOS, Linux
- 1Open the three-dot menu, top right.
- 2Choose Bookmarks and lists → Bookmark manager. Or press Ctrl+Shift+O (⌥⌘B on macOS).
- 3In the bookmark manager, open the three-dot menu at the top right of that page — not the browser one.
- 4Choose Export bookmarks. Chrome saves an HTML file wherever you point it.
Chrome exports every profile separately. If you keep work and personal profiles, you will need to repeat this in each one.
Mozilla FirefoxWindows, macOS, Linux
- 1Press Ctrl+Shift+O (⌘⇧O on macOS) to open the Library window.
- 2Click Import and Backup in the toolbar of that window.
- 3Choose Export Bookmarks to HTML.
- 4Save the file.
Firefox also offers a .json backup. Use the HTML export instead — JSON backups are Firefox-specific and most tools cannot read them.
SafarimacOS
- 1In the menu bar, choose File → Export → Bookmarks.
- 2Safari suggests Safari Bookmarks.html. Save it.
Safari on iPhone and iPad has no export. Export from a Mac signed into the same iCloud account, and the mobile bookmarks come with it.
Microsoft EdgeWindows, macOS
- 1Open the three-dot menu → Favorites, or press Ctrl+Shift+O.
- 2In the favourites pane, click the three-dot menu inside it.
- 3Choose Export favorites and save the HTML file.
Edge calls bookmarks 'favorites', but the exported file is the same standard HTML format everything else uses.
Step 2 — import into Favourl
Open Settings → Import, choose the HTML file, and confirm. Folders arrive as folders and nesting is preserved. Nothing is published or shared by importing — an imported library is private exactly like the rest of yours.
Step 3 — the cleanup nobody mentions
This is the part that decides whether the move sticks. An import that lands as three thousand unsorted links is a pile in a new place.
Dead links
A bookmark list more than a couple of years old is typically 10–20% dead. Favourl flags URLs that no longer resolve after import so you can clear them in one pass instead of discovering them one disappointment at a time.
Duplicates
Exporting from two browsers usually means importing the same link twice. Duplicates are matched on the normalised URL — ignoring tracking parameters, so utm_source does not make one link look like two.
The unsorted pile
Most exports contain a large 'Other bookmarks' or 'Unsorted' folder. It comes across as its own folder rather than being scattered, so you can work through it deliberately or leave it alone.
Can I get them out again?
Yes, in the same standard HTML format, at any time, without asking anyone. A tool that makes importing easy and exporting hard is a trap, and you should check that before you move three thousand links into anything — including this.
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