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Create an account at app.bookmarkminder.com. After confirming your email, you'll be prompted to set a vault passphrase. This passphrase is the key to your encrypted vault — choose something you won't forget and write it down somewhere safe.

Once your vault is set up, add your first bookmark by pressing N or clicking the + New button in the toolbar.

Press N anywhere in the app to open the new-bookmark modal. The URL is required; title, description, tags, and collection are optional.

Tags are free-form labels separated by commas. A bookmark can belong to multiple tags and one collection. The URL, title, description, and notes are encrypted before they leave your browser — your data is unreadable to anyone who does not know your vault passphrase.

Go to Settings → Import to upload a browser bookmark file. Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge all export in HTML format from their bookmark managers.

The importer reads the folder structure and maps each folder to a collection. Bookmarks that already exist in your vault (matched by URL) are skipped, so re-importing is safe.

Tags are flexible labels. A bookmark can have any number of them and the same tag can appear on many bookmarks. Use them for topics, projects, or status (e.g. "to-read").

Collections work like folders. A bookmark belongs to one collection at a time. Collections show up in the left sidebar; click one to filter the list.

You can combine a collection filter with tag filters and a search query at the same time. All filters are applied together, so narrowing down a large library is fast.

Search runs entirely in your browser against the decrypted vault — nothing is sent to a server. Type any word from the title, URL, description, or notes to find a match.

Supported search operators:

• tag:name — bookmarks with a specific tag
• is:unread — bookmarks you haven't opened yet
• is:favorited — bookmarks you've starred
• host:domain.com — all bookmarks from a specific site
• before:YYYY-MM-DD — bookmarks saved before a date
• after:YYYY-MM-DD — bookmarks saved after a date

Operators can be combined with plain text in a single query.

Go to Settings → Data and click Export. You'll get a JSON file with all your bookmarks, tags, and collections. There is no paywall on export — it's available on every plan.

The exported file includes plaintext URLs and titles (decrypted at export time), so keep it somewhere private.

Open a bookmark's detail panel and click the share icon to generate a public link. Anyone with the link can view that bookmark. You can revoke the link at any time from the same panel.

Collections can also be shared as a whole. When you share a collection, the recipient sees all bookmarks in it at the time they visit the link. For private collections, E2EE sharing lets you share an encrypted bundle — only someone with the key you provide can decrypt it.

When you first set up your vault, you're given a recovery kit — a set of words you can use to restore access if you forget your passphrase. Download it and store it somewhere safe (printed and in a physical location is a good option).

If you lose your passphrase and don't have the recovery kit, your vault cannot be recovered. This is intentional: because your data is encrypted with a key only you hold, there is no back door. Bookmark Minder cannot decrypt your vault for you.

To use the recovery kit, go to the login page and choose Recover account. Enter your recovery words in order and you'll be prompted to set a new passphrase.

The Bookmark Minder Chrome extension lets you save the current tab to your vault without leaving the page. It uses the same session as the web app — no separate login required.

Installation

1. Sign in to app.bookmarkminder.com in Chrome.
2. Install the extension from the Chrome Web Store.
3. Click the Bookmark Minder icon in the toolbar — it should show the current page URL and a Save button.

Saving a page

Click the toolbar icon and press Save, or use the keyboard shortcut:

• Ctrl+Shift+B on Windows and Linux
• ⌘+Shift+B on macOS

The page is saved immediately. If your vault is unlocked in the web app, the bookmark is encrypted before it reaches the server.

Session handling

The extension shares your browser's session cookie with the web app. If you're signed out, the popup shows a Sign in button that opens the login page. The extension does not store credentials of its own.