Bookmarks widget

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.

Instructions

1. Add a bookmark widget
2. Add a bookmark
   • Directly to the widget.
   • With the Extension or Add-On.
   • With the Bookmarklet.
   • With drag and drop.
   • Add more than one bookmark.
3. Import bookmarks
4. Bookmark menu
5. Widget Menu
6. Other features
   • Open in New window.
   • Broken link checker.
   • Open all links at once.
7. Resources

1. Add a bookmark widget     [back to top]

Instructions

1. Click the Add icon in the top right corner (+ icon).
2. Locate the option Bookmarks. Click it.
3. You will now see an empty widget. You can change the title and start adding bookmarks.
4. Click Done to confirm.

2. Add a bookmark     [back to top]

Add a bookmark directly to the widget.     [back to top]

Instructions

1. Click the pencil in the top-right corner of the widget. You'll see and Add URL or web address field.
2. 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.
3. Whenever you see the site, you want to add, click the + icon or press Enter to confirm.
4. Click Done to stop editing the Bookmarks widget and continue.

Add a bookmark with the extensions     [back to top]

Instructions

1. 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.
2. After you've installed the add-on or extension, you can continue surfing and save as you go. 
3. Click the start.me button. 
4. 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.
5. Click Save.

Note: the 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     [back to top]

Instructions

1. 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.
2. After you've installed the bookmarklet, you can continue surfing and save as you go. 
3. Whenever you find a website you want to save to your start page, go to the bookmarklet, and click it. 
4. 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.
5. Click Save.

Note: the bookmarklet works on all devices, including mobile devices. 

Add a bookmark with drag and drop     [back to top]

The final method to add a new bookmark to your page is also easy.

Instructions

1. Open a start.me page in your browser.
2. Open a new tab and visit the page you want to add to your start.me page.
3. Click the page address of the page you want to add, to select it.
4. Now click it again, and hold it, to drag it to the tab of your start.me page.
5. 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.

Note: this method requires a bookmark widget to add the new bookmark to.

Add more than one bookmark     [back to top]

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

1. Copy a list of bookmarks (Crtl-C or Cmnd-C)
2. Go to the destination Bookmark widget
3. Go to the top right corner of your Bookmark widget. A plus will appear. Click it, to add bookmarks.
4. In the Add bookmarks pane, click the option Add Multiple URLs.
   
5. Now paste the bookmarks you've copied.

3. Import bookmarks     [back to top]

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

1. Click the Add icon in the top right corner (+ icon).
2. Locate the option Import bookmarks. Click it.
3. Browse to the HTML-file with the bookmarks you want to import.
4. Click Import.
5. Now you can select the folders you want to import. Once you're ready, Import.
6. Your bookmarks will appear in a new page, called Import bookmarks.

For more detailed information about importing bookmarks & RSS feeds.

4. Bookmark menu     [back to top]

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. 

5. Widget menu    [back to top]

• 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.
• Add Group.
• Copy, merge & move.
• Display settings. You can change the form and order of your bookmarks.
  
• Share the widget.
• Background to change background and transparency. If you make the widget 100% transparent, you'll only see the search field. 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.

6. Other features     [back to top]

Open in a New Window     [back to top]

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     [back to top]

The Broken Link Checker will show a strike through your broken links. When you click the broken link, a dialogue window will appear. 

This feature is available to PRO members only. You'll find more info here: https://start.me/pro.

Open all links at once     [back to top]

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 header of your widget. 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.

7. Resources     [back to top]

• 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/.