Move your browser bookmarks somewhere you can actually find them again.
Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge all export the same standard HTML bookmark file. Upload it as-is and Cowpin keeps every link, its title and its save date - and turns each folder, however deeply nested, into a tag.
Free during beta. Your browser keeps its bookmarks too - exporting copies them, it doesn't delete anything - and you can export back out of Cowpin whenever you want.
How the move works
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Export one HTML file
Chrome or Edge: open the bookmark manager (Ctrl+Shift+O / Cmd+Option+B), then the three-dot menu, then Export bookmarks. Firefox: Bookmarks, then Manage Bookmarks, then Import and Backup, then Export Bookmarks to HTML. Safari: File, then Export, then Bookmarks. Every one of them writes the same Netscape HTML format.
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Create a free Cowpin account
Sign up with Google or an email address. No card, no waiting list.
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Upload the HTML file
Open Settings, then Bookmarks, then Import, and drop the file in. There is no conversion step - Cowpin recognises the format and reads it directly, folders and all.
What comes across
A browser bookmark export is a plain list of links in folders. Here is exactly what survives the move.
- Every bookmark and its title
- Each folder - including deeply nested sub-folders - kept as a Cowpin tag
- The wrapper folders every browser adds (Bookmarks Bar, Other Bookmarks, Favorites) are skipped, so you don't get one useless tag on everything
- Firefox tags, if you added any, stay as tags
- Original date-added, so your library keeps its real history
- Nothing is uploaded anywhere but your Cowpin account - the file goes straight from your browser
The honest version
The browser bookmark bar is fine for a handful of links you open every day, and nothing here asks you to stop using it. It stops being enough when the list gets long: there is no real full-text search, no tags (Firefox aside), no shared view across browsers you don't sign into, and no archived copy when a saved page goes dark. Cowpin adds all of that - search over the page text, a flat tag space, a Pinboard-compatible API, and a readable snapshot of everything you save from here on. What a browser export does not carry, because it never stored it: descriptions, notes, favicons, and the folder tree as a hierarchy - folders arrive as a flat set of tags, which is the point, not a loss.
Questions people ask before moving
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One HTML file, every link and folder intact, and an export button that always works.
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