Bookmark sharing are a vital tool for organizing and accessing web resources. They can be tagged and organized to make it easy for others to find what they need, but most web browsers don’t provide an effective way to share them. This article looks at how to overcome the challenges of sharing bookmarks across different computers.

Many people work from a variety of different computers—one at home, one at the office and perhaps a mobile phone too. Managing a consistent set of bookmarks across all these platforms can be tricky, especially if the computer isn’t connected to the internet (for example a Tube commute). Social bookmarking services can synchronize bookmarks between different computers by storing them on their own servers. However, this creates a large single point of failure that could be taken down at any time, either for technical or political reasons. This makes them unsuitable for some users.

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A better solution would be to store the contents of the bookmarks locally, giving people a way to read and mark up their bookmarks when offline. Unfortunately, this isn’t possible with most of the popular social bookmarking services, although it is feasible for desktop applications like DayBack.

The blog post describes how to use Method 4 from the article to transfer bookmarks between Chrome profiles, which works well for a one-off export and import cycle. For a more fluid and automatic syncing process, Bookmark Llama is the preferred tool—it provides a simple way to share continuously updated bookmark folders between accounts, eliminating the need for a separate export and import cycle and ensuring the recipient has the most up-to-date bookmarks.