Importing Your Bookmarks

You don't have to start from scratch. Anchor imports the standard bookmarks file every browser can export, and can even sort the whole pile for you with AI.

Step 1: Export from your browser

Every major browser exports bookmarks as a single HTML file:

  • Chrome: ⋮ menu → Bookmarks and lists → Bookmark manager → ⋮ → Export bookmarks
  • Edge: Settings → Profiles → Import browser data → Export to file, or via the Favorites manager
  • Firefox: ☰ menu → Bookmarks → Manage bookmarks → Import and Backup → Export Bookmarks to HTML…
  • Safari: File menu → Export → Bookmarks…

Step 2: Import into Anchor

  1. Open Settings in Anchor and choose Import Bookmarks, or pick the Import Your Own template when creating a desktop
  2. Drag your exported HTML file into the upload area, or click to browse for it
  3. You'll see a preview of all your folders and bookmarks with checkboxes. Untick anything you want to leave behind (Select All and Deselect All help with big collections)

Step 3: Choose how to organize

  • Standard import brings your selected bookmarks straight in.
  • Auto-Sort with AI (optional, off by default) organizes them for you: related links get grouped together and laid out in tidy columns. Fifteen years of chaos, sorted in about a minute.

Privacy: your bookmarks are yours. When you use AI auto-sort, your data is used only to organize your import. It is never used to train AI models.

After importing

Your imported bookmarks behave like any others. Drag groups between columns, rename them, split them across desktops, and prune the dead weight. A good rule of thumb: promote the links you use daily to a prominent group, then archive or delete the rest.

Exporting Your Data

Your data is yours, and you can take it with you whenever you like. Open Settings → Data Management and choose how to export:

  • Bookmarks (HTML) downloads a standard bookmarks file — the same format every browser reads. Re-import it into Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari, or back into Anchor. Your desktops become top-level folders and your groups become sub-folders, so your structure comes along for the ride.
  • Backup (JSON) downloads a complete snapshot of your Anchor setup — every desktop, group, bookmark, widget and theme — for safekeeping.

Your data, your control: exports run entirely in your browser and contain none of your account details. Nothing is sent to a server when you export.