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Your bookmarks, and the Mac they already live on
Six plain answers about links you have already saved — where each browser keeps them on disk, how to find one again with what you have, and what it means to search a collection by meaning rather than by matching words. No app is needed to follow any of them.
- Searching bookmarks by what is inside themEvery browser searches bookmark titles and URLs, never the page. Here is why, what the workarounds actually do, and how to search by what a page was about.
- Where a Mac browser keeps your bookmarksChrome keeps bookmarks in one JSON file with no extension, in Application Support. The exact path, and the same file in Brave, Arc, Edge and Vivaldi.
- Three ways to search bookmarks in Chrome on a MacThree ways to search Chrome bookmarks on a Mac — the manager, the address bar, and @bookmarks — plus the one thing none of them can find, and what to do.
- What it means to search bookmarks by meaningWhat it means to search saved links by meaning rather than by matching words — how a page becomes numbers, why the score matters, and where it stops working.
- Two ways to back up bookmarks on a MacTwo backups worth having on a Mac: the HTML export any browser can read, and a copy of the raw Bookmarks file. What each one keeps, and what each one loses.
- What “local” actually means in a bookmark manager“Local” is used loosely. Four questions that tell you whether a Mac bookmark manager really keeps your links on the machine, and how to answer them.