The household runs on links that live in one person's phone
3 min read · Family & personal
Most households keep their important links in one person's browser, which means everyone else asks for them. To share bookmarks with family, put them on a shared board instead of texting them: Linksley's Family plan is $6/mo with 3 seats, and a shared board shows up on every member's new tab. You can also give a kid view-only access to a board without giving them the rest.
One person is the household's search engine
The pediatrician portal is bookmarked on a laptop. The school lunch calendar is a text message from August. The insurance login page is in someone's phone browser, four hundred tabs deep, and the plumber you actually liked is a screenshot. Every time anyone needs one of them, they ask the person who saved it.
That person is usually the same person every time. It is not a technology problem so much as a storage problem: the household's shared links are stored privately, in a place only one adult can reach. Texting a link solves it for ten minutes and then the text scrolls away too.
Put it on the new tab so nobody has to remember it
A shared folder only works if people open it. The Linksley extension can make your boards the new-tab page, so the household board is the first thing on screen every time anyone opens a window. It renders from a local cache, so it appears instantly, and it is searchable — type "pedia" and the portal is there.
That is the practical reason families stick with this and abandon shared folders. The new tab is the most-visited page of anyone's day. A link that lives there is a link nobody has to ask for.
Kids get view-only, and only the board you choose
You can share a single board with a kid as view-only. They can open the links; they cannot rename, move or delete them, and the cap is enforced in the app and in the extension, not just hidden in the interface. A homework board or a summer-camp board can be theirs without opening up the household's insurance logins.
Honestly: if you are sharing two links, a note app or a pinned text is fine and costs nothing. This pays off at household scale — a few dozen links that several people need, over years, when the person who saved them is at work. Worth knowing before you start: Linksley's extension covers Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Opera, there is no Safari extension, and there is no mobile app — the web app opens on a phone browser, but the board experience is built for a desktop.
Common questions
How do I share bookmarks with my family?
Put them on a shared board rather than sending them one at a time. In Linksley you create a board, add categories like Health and School, then share the board with the other adults; they see it on their own browsers and on their new tab. Everyone can add to it, so it stays current without one person maintaining it.
Can my kids see a board without seeing everything else?
Yes. Sharing is per board, and you can set a person to view-only. A child can open a homework or activities board and follow the links, but cannot edit it, and they see nothing on the boards you did not share.
What does a family plan cost?
Linksley's Family plan is $6/mo and includes 3 seats. There is also a free plan with one board and no card required, and no ads on any plan.
Can I move the bookmarks I already have?
Yes. Export your bookmarks from your browser as an HTML file and import it — it arrives as a board with categories. You can export back to standard bookmarks HTML any time, on every plan.
Stop being the family link lookup
Put the household's links on one shared board everyone can open.
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