Bookmarks

Manage, organise and search bookmarks, pin sites to your Start menu, find web pages through words they contain, and bookmark videos

Access your bookmarks from everywhere

There are lots of great bookmarking tools available, but many of them aren’t easy on the eye. Not so Raindrop ( https:// raindrop.io). What’s more, this attractivelooking service (see screenshot below) is available for almost every platform – including Windows, MACOS, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, IOS, and Android. It lets you save anything, such as articles, photos, videos, and screenshots, and organise them in various ways. You can share and collaborate on content also.

To use Raindrop.io in your browser, just click the ‘Install app or Extension’ button to add a bookmark, or drag an image or link to the drop zone that appears on the right. You can also simply press Ctrl+shift+c.

Find a bookmarked page based on a word it contains

If you bookmark a lot of websites, finding a particular story on a particular page can be tricky. Historious ( https://historio.us) lets you track down anything by entering a few of the words you remember from the story you’re seeking. Historious searches the content of all your bookmarked pages, and even keeps a cached copy of the website as you first saw it.

The free version limits you to 50 bookmarked (or ‘historified’) sites, and certain features, such as read later and RSS feeds, are only available if you opt for a paid-for plan. But as long as you delete sites you no longer require, the free version should be fine for your needs.

Pin sites to the Start menu in Windows 10

Microsoft’s web browser Edge lets you bookmark sites – called ‘favourites’ – by clicking the star that appears in the address bar. But you can also pin sites you visit often to the Start menu for instant access. To do this, click the top-right ellipses button (…), click ‘Pin this page to Start’, then Confirm (see screenshot above). To access that site in future, open the Start menu. You can also pin sites to your taskbar.

Use Google Bookmarks

Google offers an easy-to-use bookmarking service at www.google.co.uk/bookmarks. Simply drag the bookmarklet to the bookmarks bar of your browser (it works with any browser), then click the button (see screenshot above left) to save the site you’re on. You can change its name, and add labels and notes. Saved sites can be sorted by title, label, or date, and exported for offline viewing.

Recover missing bookmarks in Chrome

If your bookmarks go missing in Chrome, don’t panic – it’s easy to get them back. First, open File Explorer and go to C:\users\ %username%\ Appdata\local\google\ Chrome\user Data. In the search bar, type bookmarks. You’ll see files named Bookmarks and/or Bookmarks.bak. In your browser, go to www.snipca.com/ 26730 and drag the bookmark file into the target window. Download the HTML file it produces and open it in your browser.

You’ll now be able to visit, and rebookmark any of those sites. You can also import them all at once. In Chrome, click the menu button and go to Bookmarks, then Bookmark Manager. Click the menu button, select Import Bookmarks, and load the saved HTML file.