Guides
Everything we know about links, in plain answers.
How teams and families keep links findable, how to switch tools without losing anything, and honest comparisons when you're picking. Short, specific, no filler.
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- A bookmark manager for teams whose links live in a pinned messageA bookmark manager for teams: shared boards, per-person permissions, required boards, and your links on every new tab. $9 + $2 per person.
- The household runs on links that live in one person's phoneShare bookmarks with family so the pediatrician portal, school calendar and insurance login are not stuck in one person's phone.
- A bookmark system that survives contact with a real weekSix steps to organize bookmarks: one home, sort by task not by source, two levels max, the top twenty in sight, the rest searchable, prune on a trigger.
Business & teams
Shared links with real permissions, for companies of 2 to 200.
- A bookmark manager for teams whose links live in a pinned messageA bookmark manager for teams: shared boards, per-person permissions, required boards, and your links on every new tab. $9 + $2 per person.
- A team start page nobody has to remember to visitPortals die because visiting them is a chore. Put your team start page on every new tab: required boards, checklists, calendars, your logo.
- A company intranet for people who are never going to buy SharePointA lightweight intranet alternative for small business: the company front page on every new tab, with required boards, checklists and calendars.
- How to share links with your team so they are still findable in MarchLinks shared in chat get posted, pinned, buried and then reposted wrong. How to share bookmarks with your team so each one has one address.
- The day-one link email, and why the new hire asks anywayDay one arrives as forty links in an email and six of them are dead. Build a new hire resource page that is already open on their new tab.
- A client onboarding page your client will actually openClients lose the kickoff email and never bookmark the generic portal. Build a branded client resource hub at one link, with a password if you need it.
- A white-label bookmark manager that carries your logo, not oursHanding a client a tool covered in someone else's logo undercuts the retainer. Put your brand on the app, the extension, the new tab and public pages.
- A bookmark manager for VAs who juggle five clients at onceEvery client has its own logins page, SOPs, calendars and tools. Keep each one on its own board, switchable from the new tab.
- An agency resource hub that survives account managers leavingAd accounts, dashboards, drives and brand folders live in one AM's personal bookmarks. Put them on client boards the agency owns.
- A real estate link organizer for teams that onboard agents constantlyMLS, county records, lender portals, showing tools, transaction checklists — on one team board, plus shareable listing boards for buyers.
- Legal research links that outlive the associate who found themE-filing portals, dockets, statutes and per-matter research trails, on boards with view-only control and export any time. No lock-in.
- Accounting firm links that survive tax season and seasonal staffState portals, IRS tools, payroll and bank login pages per client — on boards, with seasonal staff on view-only and one-action offboarding.
- A recruiting tools organizer for people who run ten reqs at onceJob boards, ATS views, sourcing tools and boolean searches per req — on boards and saved sessions instead of a chat thread nobody can find.
- Help desk links an agent can find in the middle of a ticketMacros doc, admin panels, escalation sheets, status pages — on required boards, on every agent's new tab, searchable from the extension.
- Every rep opens the current battle card, not last quarter's deckBattle cards, pricing sheets, demo environments and CRM views on one board every rep opens - pushed by enablement, view-only so nothing drifts.
- Stop answering where's the latest logo folder every monthBrand assets, ad managers, analytics views and swipe files on shared boards - one per campaign, view-only for freelancers, revoked in one click.
- The runbook link matters most at 3am, which is when nobody can find itRepos, dashboards, staging URLs and runbooks on one board per service - searchable from the extension, restorable on a new machine, exportable any time.
- Inspiration you can actually find again six months laterMoodboards that outlive your tabs: save references with descriptions and images, keep client and license links together, publish a curated board as a page.
- Every unit's links in one place your students can actually useYears of teaching links, organized by class and unit instead of a bookmarks bar that no longer scrolls - shareable without exposing everything else.
- The links shouldn't leave when the coordinator doesGrant portals, donor tools and drive folders in one place that survives turnover - required boards for volunteers, view-only access, one-click offboarding.
- A quick question about a link shouldn't cost eight hoursEvery quick question, what's the link to costs a timezone round trip. Put your team's links on a shared new tab everyone can search instead of asking.
Family & personal
One organized place for the links your household actually reuses.
- The household runs on links that live in one person's phoneShare bookmarks with family so the pediatrician portal, school calendar and insurance login are not stuck in one person's phone.
- Every recipe you liked is in a different browserOrganize recipe links from three browsers and fifteen screenshots into one shared board both cooks can add to and search at dinnertime.
- Sixty tabs of trip research and nobody can find the good rentalOrganize travel research on one shared board — stay, eat, do, logistics — so both of you can add links and nothing gets lost before booking.
- A year of wedding research does not fit in a browser folderA wedding planning organizer for links: venues, photographers, quotes and registries on shared boards both of you update — and parents can view.
- Four years of homeschool resources, none of them findableA homeschool resource organizer: boards per child and subject, view-only links for the kid, weekly checklists, no ads on any plan.
- Five courses, five portals, and finals in a weekA bookmark manager for students: one board per course, sessions that survive a crash, free on one board, and export when you graduate.
- A college list your teen and you can both actually seeA college search organizer for parent and teen: admissions pages, net price calculators, scholarship portals and deadlines on one shared board.
- A house-hunting list that survives the third weekend of toursOrganize house hunting links on one shared board: saved, toured, offer, rejected — plus the walkthrough notes your agent is about to ask you for.
- The gift idea you had in July, still there in DecemberA gift ideas organizer for the whole family: a private board per person, wishlist links in one place, and a view-only list grandparents can open.
- Family history research you can pick up again six months laterOrganize family history research: census records, archive pages and cemetery indexes on boards per family line, with source notes on every link.
- A short list of good links, right where your kid opens the browserBuild a kid-friendly bookmarks page: school portal, typing practice and approved games on their new tab. You edit the list; they just click it.
- Six months of renovation links in one place you can actually checkOrganize renovation ideas and project links on one board: quotes, materials, permits and inspiration, with prices and lead times in the notes.
How-to
Practical answers to everyday bookmark and tab problems.
- How to share Chrome bookmarks with someone who will actually use themChrome has no built-in bookmark sharing. Export an HTML file, paste the links into a doc, or put them on a shared board that stays current.
- How to keep the same bookmarks in Chrome, Firefox, and EdgeChrome sync stops at Chrome. How to keep the same links in Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Opera without export-import round trips and duplicate folders.
- How to export your Chrome bookmarks, and what to do with the fileThe exact steps to export Chrome bookmarks as an HTML file, what is inside it, and how to import it into another browser or a shared board.
- A bookmark system that survives contact with a real weekSix steps to organize bookmarks: one home, sort by task not by source, two levels max, the top twenty in sight, the rest searchable, prune on a trigger.
- What to do when you have ninety tabs open and cannot close any of themTab overload is not a discipline problem. Save the window as a session, promote the five links you reuse, and close the rest without losing anything.
- Save every open tab now, reopen the window laterSave all open tabs in one click, reopen them later as the same window, and turn on auto-snapshots so a crash or a new laptop costs you nothing.
- How to get your bookmarks and tabs back after a browser crashRestore bookmarks after a crash and recover browser tabs: the steps that work, what is gone for good, and how to never scavenge again.
- Your new tab page opens fifty times a day. Make it do somethingA custom new tab page for work should load instantly and show your links, not algorithmic tiles. What to look for, and how to set one up.
- Pocket shut down. Here is what to do with the habit it left behindPocket shut down in July 2025 and exports closed October 8, 2025. What you lost, what replaces it, and how to import a Pocket CSV you still have.
- How to make a page of links people can actually useHow to make a link page: compare a doc, a Notion page, link-in-bio tools, a real web page, and a published board - and how to keep it current.
- Your bookmark bar is full. Here is how to fix it for goodOrganize your bookmark bar when it is full: keep the daily ten, go favicon-only, add one Inbox folder, and move everything else somewhere searchable.
Switching & alternatives
Moving from another tool — or from no tool at all.
- The Toby alternative built for teamsToby organises your tabs. Linksley organises your team's links — with permissions, roles, and a board that outlives whoever set it up.
- The Raindrop alternative for shared linksRaindrop is a beautiful personal library. If the links belong to a team rather than to you, the sharing model is where it stops.
- What to use after Pocket, if the links you miss are the ones you kept going back toPocket shut down in July 2025. If you saved links to reuse them rather than to read them, here is where they go — and how to import your CSV.
- For teams whose real problem is the links, not the tabsTab workspaces tie your work to open tab state. If what your team needs is links that are governed, shareable, and survive turnover, swap the model.
- A start page you do not have to remember to visitA start.me alternative for work: your boards as the browser new tab, required boards admins can push, and branded public pages on Business.
- Saved sessions that survive the laptop they were saved onLocal session managers keep your tabs in one browser on one machine. Sessions tied to your account survive crashes, reinstalls, and new laptops.
- When the tab list stopped being a list and became a landfillCollapsing tabs frees memory but builds a list nobody prunes. Save all your tabs, promote the ones you will reopen, and delete the rest.
- A link page for a business with more than five linksBio-link tools give you one skinny column. For a page with categories, per-link descriptions, images and your own branding, publish a board.
- Class link pages students can open and nobody else can editA Symbaloo alternative for teachers: one board per class, view-only links for students, no ads on any plan, and you stay the only editor.
- When your link tree got so deep you stopped opening itA Pearltrees alternative that stays shallow on purpose: boards, categories, search, and your links on every new tab. Export anytime, no lock-in.
- For researchers who mostly need the source back, not the highlightsA Diigo alternative built around finding the source again: boards, categories, a note on every link, group sharing, and export on every plan.
- Publish the collection, and still have somewhere to workA Wakelet alternative with two sides: public pages you can publish, and private boards with real permissions for the links your team uses every day.
- When your wall of sticky notes is really just a list of linksA Padlet alternative for links: boards and categories made for URLs, view-only sharing for students, publishable pages, and no ads on any plan.
- A new tab with your whole library, not twelve tilesA speed dial new tab extension gives you a screen of tiles on one machine. Linksley puts whole boards on the new tab: searchable, synced, shared, ad-free.
Comparisons & buying guides
Honest looks at the options before you pick one.
- How to pick a bookmark manager without trying nine of themThe best bookmark manager depends on what you save. Four honest categories, who each one fits, and when the browser is already enough.
- A checklist for choosing a team bookmark managerSix things that decide whether a team bookmark manager survives contact with real people: permissions, push, offboarding, retrieval, import and cost.
- What a free bookmark manager actually costs youFree tiers exist across the whole category. Here are the three usual trade-offs, what Linksley's free plan includes, and when free is genuinely enough.
- Toby vs Workona: do you live in tabs or in lists?Toby and Workona solve the same mess from opposite ends. A short decision guide, plus the third option when the real problem is your team's links.
- Raindrop vs Pocket, now that Pocket is goneMozilla shut Pocket down in July 2025. What Raindrop is good at, what it isn't, and how to tell whether you were saving to read or saving to keep.
- Notion for bookmarks: when it works and when it quietly stopsA Notion database of links genuinely works at low volume. Here is the exact point where filing friction and retrieval time make it the wrong home.
- The links tab in your team spreadsheet is the real incumbentA spreadsheet of links is free, familiar and shareable. It fails in two specific ways — access and ownership. Here is when to keep it and when not to.
- Choosing a new tab extension for the page you open 200 times a dayNew tab extensions come in four types. What each is for, why load speed and ads matter more than they look, and when a blank tab wins.
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