The Bookmarks widget is a crucial building block of your start.me page. This widget is where you keep all your bookmarks. You can put as many Bookmark widgets on your page as you want to. The same goes for the number of bookmarks within them. You can organize widgets, drag them around and personalize them — everything you need to navigate the internet efficiently.
Add a bookmark widget
Instructions
Click the Add icon in the top right corner (+ icon).
Locate the option Bookmarks. Click it.
You will now see an empty widget. You can change the title and start adding bookmarks.
Click Done to confirm.
Add a bookmark
Instructions
Click the pencil in the top-right corner of the widget. You'll see and Add URL field.
Begin typing the URL of the site you want to add. As you're typing, you're searching our database. Chances are, we've found it before you have.
Whenever you see the site, you want to add, click the + icon or press Enter to confirm.
Click Done to stop editing the Bookmarks widget and continue.
Add a bookmark with the extensions
Instructions
Make sure you've added the Chrome extension or Firefox Add-on to your browser. You can find more information in the section dedicated to installing start.me to your browser.
After you've installed the add-on or extension, you can continue surfing and save as you go.
Click the start.me button.
A dialogue window will open. Now you can accept or change the name of the bookmark you'd like to save, the URL and the Bookmark widget.
Click Save.
Tip
Our extensions only work on computers with the right browser installed. These include Chrome, most Chromium-based browsers (including Edge), as well as Firefox. They don't work on mobile browsers.
Add a bookmark with the bookmarklet
Instructions
Make sure you've added the Bookmarklet to your browser. You can find more information in the section dedicated to installing start.me to your browser.
After you've installed the bookmarklet, you can continue surfing and save as you go.
Whenever you find a website you want to save to your start page, go to the bookmarklet, and click it.
A dialogue window will open. Now you can accept or change the name of the bookmark you'd like to save, the URL and the Bookmark widget.
Click Save.
Tip
The bookmarklet works on all devices, including mobile devices.
Add a bookmark with drag and drop
The final method to add a new bookmark to your page is as easy as drag and drop.
Instructions
Open a start.me page in your browser.
Open a new tab and visit the page you want to add to your start.me page.
Click the page address of the page you want to add, to select it.
Now click it again, and hold it, to drag it to the tab of your start.me page.
Locate the bookmark widget you want to add your new bookmark to and release.
This method also works for existing bookmarks in the bookmarks bar of your browser.
Tip
This method requires a bookmark widget to add the new bookmark to.
Add more than one bookmark
There are situations where it's useful to be able to make numerous bookmarks at once. You might want to import a list of bookmarks from a spreadsheet, for example. Or a list of bookmarks you've discovered online.
Instructions
Copy a list of bookmarks (Crtl-C or Cmnd-C)
Go to the destination Bookmark widget
Go to the top right corner of your Bookmark widget. A plus will appear. Click it, to add bookmarks.
In the Add bookmarks pane, click the option Add Multiple URLs.
Now paste the bookmarks you've copied.
Import bookmarks
Another way to fill up your bookmark widgets is by importing them. First make sure you have exported the bookmarks you want to import to an HTML file.
Instructions
Click the Add icon in the top right corner (+ icon).
Locate the option Import bookmarks. Click it.
Browse to the HTML-file with the bookmarks you want to import.
Click Import.
Now you can select the folders you want to import. Once you're ready, Import.
Your bookmarks will appear in a new page, called Import bookmarks.
For more detailed information about importing bookmarks & RSS feeds.
Bookmark menu
When you right-click a bookmark, you open the Bookmark menu. Now you see several options.
Open the bookmark in a new window. With this option, the website will open in a new tab. This setting is especially useful when you have set the Open link in new window setting of your profile to off.
Edit bookmark. This will open the bookmarks sidebar, so you can set the title, icon, or description.
Change icon. To change the icon immediately, without jumping to the Bookmarks sidebar.
Copy link to clipboard.
Duplicate bookmark. When you click this, you copy the bookmark to another page, widget and group (if you have groups activated).
Move bookmark. When you click this, you move the bookmark to another page, widget and group (if you have groups activated).
Delete. Click this option, and the bookmark will disappear from your page. There is no undo, and no confirmation.
Widget menu
Right-click the widget or click the More icon (three dots) to open the Widget menu. This is where you control the appearance and behavior of your widget.
These are your options:
Open all links in tabs. This is especially useful when you've collected links to use for a specific task.
Add bookmark / Edit bookmark / Sort bookmarks. You can sort all bookmarks in a widget at once, even if they are organized in Bookmarks Groups. Changes are applied instantly and there is no undo. Your options are:
sort by Title (A-Z or Z-A),
sort by Age (Newest or Oldest),
sort by Domain (so all links from the same main domain are grouped together),
or sort by URL (so links from the same domain are not grouped together).
Add Group.
Copy, merge & move the entire widget.
Display settings. You can change the form and order of the bookmarks in one bookmarks widget, or apply this to all bookmarks widgets on the page.
Share the widget.
Background to change background and transparency. If you make the widget 100% transparent, you'll only see its content. You can also apply this setting to all other widgets on your page.
Delete widget. You'll get a pop-up to ask if you are sure. If your continue, the widget will delete. There is no way to undo this.
Other features
Open in a New Window
If you want to open your bookmarks in a new tab, you can configure this in your User Preferences.
You open them by clicking the User icon in your top right corner.
Then click Preferences and toggle the Open in new window option.
For this feature to work, you have to allow pop-ups from start.me. Read all about accepting pop-ups in this support article.
Broken link checker
The Broken Link Checker will show a strike through your broken links. When you click the broken link, a dialogue window will appear.
Open all links at once
Many of our users use the Bookmarks widget to gather and order a few links they access every day. For example, they use them to check multiple sources to update a tracker, or to monitor their competition or social accounts. If you had to open all links one by one, this would become time-consuming. That's why we added an 'Open all links at once' option to our Bookmark widget.
You can locate it in the Widget Menu. Don't worry about clicking it by mistake: we'll always ask you if you're sure you want us to open multiple tabs at once. Also, we've disabled this feature on touch devices.
Resources
You can add bookmarks to local folders or files. Read more about how to do this.
We've constantly added items about bookmarking to our blog. Be sure to check it out. For example: here's an article about adding multiple bookmarks at once: https://blog.start.me/how-to/multiple-bookmarks/.