Your bookmarks bar, in a notebook

Turn it on

1. Click the Remindly button in Chrome's or Firefox's toolbar.

   No Web Clipper yet? Add it and sign in first.

2. At the bottom of the clipper, click Bookmarks bar sync: Off.

   It's there on any page, including a new tab.

3. Pick the Notebook the links go to.

   It starts on your "Bookmarks" notebook if you have one. Otherwise it offers New notebook “Bookmarks”, made when you turn the sync on.

4. Tick Keep my bookmarks bar in a notebook.

   Your browser asks to let the clipper read and change your bookmarks. Allow it. The first sync starts right away and shows its progress, a few seconds for a typical bar.

5. If you want Remindly to change the bar too, tick Changes in Remindly update the bar too.

   This second switch shows once the sync is on. Leave it off if you only want a copy of the bar in Remindly.

The link at the bottom of the clipper now reads Bookmarks bar sync: On with the number of links, so you can check on it any time.

What each switch does

There are two switches, and the second only adds to the first. With just the first one on, Remindly never changes your bookmarks.

From the bar to Remindly

With Keep my bookmarks bar in a notebook on:

• Each link in the bar is a note in the notebook you picked. The bookmark's name is the title, the link is the text, and the note is dated the day you bookmarked it.
• Folders are tags. A link in the folder Recipes is tagged Recipes, and one in Dev, then AI, is tagged Dev/AI. A link you bookmarked in two folders is one note with both tags.
• Renaming or moving a bookmark renames its note or swaps its folder tag. Tags you add to the note yourself stay.
• Removing a bookmark moves its note to the Trash. Bookmark the link again and the same note comes back. A note you've written in is kept where it is.
• A note you changed keeps your text. Write in it or rename it, and the sync won't overwrite what you did. Its folder tags still follow the bar.
• Only the bar is synced. Other bookmarks, mobile bookmarks, bookmarklets, browser pages and separators are left out.

The sync runs a few seconds after you change a bookmark, every 30 minutes, when the browser starts, and when you click Sync now.

From Remindly to the bar

With Changes in Remindly update the bar too also on, changes you make to the notebook's notes on any device, or in Claude and ChatGPT, reach the bar:

• It starts from now. The first run only looks. Notes already in the notebook that aren't in the bar, like thousands of imported bookmarks, never go into it. Only changes after you turn it on count.
• Renaming a note renames its bookmark.
• Tags are folders. Tag a note Reference/Web and its bookmark moves to Reference, then Web, which are made if they're missing. Take the tag off and it leaves that folder. With no folder tags left, it sits at the top of the bar. Tags the note had before aren't turned into folders, and a folder the sync leaves empty is removed.
• Trashing a note takes its bookmark out of the bar. So does deleting it or moving it to another notebook. Your browser has no Trash, but Remindly does: restore the note, or move it back, and the bookmark returns to its folder.
• New links come in. A note with a link that you save to the notebook, from the clipper, the apps or the web, is added at the end of its folder.
• The bar wins a tie. If a link changed in both places since the last sync, the bar's version is kept.

While it's on, the sync also runs every 5 minutes, so changes made in Remindly show up in the bar within a few minutes.

More than one browser or computer? Point them all at the same notebook with both switches on, and they end up with the same links. A link removed from one bar is trashed, which takes it out of the others.

As with the first switch, if 20 or more bookmarks, and at least a fifth of the bar, would leave it at once, the clipper asks first: Remove from the bar or Keep the bookmarks.

Turn it off

• Untick Keep my bookmarks bar in a notebook to stop syncing. Your notes stay where they are, as ordinary notes, and your bookmarks stay as they are. Turn it on again later and the links are matched to the same notes, without duplicates.
• Untick Changes in Remindly update the bar too to go back to one way. The bar keeps going to Remindly. Turn it on again and it starts from that moment, with another first run that only looks.
• Signing out of the clipper turns the sync off too.
• Picking another notebook while the sync is on moves the synced notes still in the old one into the new one. Notes you'd moved elsewhere stay put.

Free and Pro

Bookmarks bar sync is part of Remindly Pro. Clipping pages is on every plan. On Free, the clipper shows Upgrade to Pro in place of the switch.

If Pro ends while the sync is on, it pauses and the link reads Bookmarks bar sync: Paused. Your notes and bookmarks stay as they are, and the sync carries on by itself when you're on Pro again.

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