Guides
Practical guides to saving articles, beating link rot, taming tabs, and moving your bookmarks between browsers.
Read later
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Pocket shut down: where to save articles now
Pocket closed in July 2025. Compare read-later apps, bookmark managers, web clippers, and browser reading lists to find where your articles should go now.
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Pocket export file: how to open it and what to do next
Your Pocket export is a list of links, not your articles. Learn what's inside, how to open it, and how to get the links into Chrome or Firefox bookmarks.
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Why articles disappear from the web: link rot explained
38% of web pages from 2013 were gone a decade later. Learn why articles disappear, how common link rot is, and how to keep a copy of what you want to read.
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How to save an article before the web page disappears
Compare five ways to keep an article's text: print to PDF, Save Page As, the Wayback Machine, web clippers, and read-later apps that store a copy for you.
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Read-later list: how to keep one you actually finish
A read-later list you finish is short, tagged by intent, and reviewed weekly. Use a 20-minute rewind, a cap, and guilt-free deleting to keep it moving.
Bookmarks and tabs
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How to close 50 tabs without losing anything
Five ways to save all your open tabs before you close them in Chrome or Firefox, with honest trade-offs, so nothing you meant to read gets lost.
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How to open and search a bookmarks.html file
What a bookmarks.html file is, how to open it in any browser, and how to browse its folders and search every title and link without importing it.
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Find and remove duplicate bookmarks in Chrome and Firefox
Remove duplicate bookmarks in Chrome and Firefox by hand or with a free tool, then put the clean set back without doubling every bookmark you have.
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How to find dead links in your bookmarks
Find bookmarks whose sites no longer respond with a free checker, learn what it can and can't detect, and look for archived copies of the pages you lost.
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How to sync bookmarks between Chrome and Firefox
Chrome sync and Firefox Sync don't talk to each other. Compare one-time imports, two-way sync extensions and one-way collection, and pick what fits you.
Export your bookmarks
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Export Chrome bookmarks to an HTML file
Export your Chrome bookmarks to an HTML file from the Bookmark manager in under a minute, then browse, search and preview the file in a free explorer.
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Export Firefox bookmarks to an HTML file
Export Firefox bookmarks to bookmarks.html from the Library window, learn when a JSON backup is the better choice, and open the file in a free explorer.
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Export Safari bookmarks to an HTML file
Export Safari bookmarks on a Mac with File > Export Browsing Data to File, unzip the archive to get the HTML file, and find the steps for iPhone too.
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Export Edge favorites (bookmarks) to an HTML file
Export Microsoft Edge favorites to an HTML file from the Favorites menu, find out where your old Collections went, and open the file in a free explorer.
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Export Brave bookmarks to an HTML file
Export Brave bookmarks to an HTML file on desktop, Android or iPhone, learn why Brave Sync is not a backup, and open the file in a free bookmark explorer.
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Export Opera bookmarks to an HTML file
Export Opera bookmarks to an HTML file with the import/export button in the bookmarks manager, recover deleted bookmarks first, and open the file for free.