Save and organize Bookmarks

Bookmarks are kept in the Personal or team you have selected. A bookmark saved in a team is visible to everyone in that team, including its note and highlights. Personal bookmarks are visible only to you. In a team that gives members view access only, members who are not admins can read the team's bookmarks but cannot add or change them (see Personal and team work).

Save a link

Choose Add bookmark in the page bar of Bookmarks, paste the address into Web address and choose Save bookmark. Only the address is required; you can also give a title, a collection, tags and a note. To save from another site without opening Magpie first, use the browser button (see Import, export and share Bookmarks). Unless you choose a collection, the bookmark goes to the Inbox, which holds bookmarks that are not in a collection. A new bookmark is marked unread.

Magpie then checks the page for its title, description, icon and preview image. If the page cannot be reached, for example because it needs a sign-in, the bookmark keeps the address you saved and you can type a title yourself. On a bookmark's page, Page details shows when the page was last checked; choose Check again to check it now. A title or description you have edited is not replaced.

If you have already saved the page in the same Personal or team, Magpie shows when you saved it and offers View the saved bookmark or Save another copy. Tracking parameters such as utm_source and fbclid are ignored when comparing addresses. The address you saved is kept as you entered it.

Organize

• Collections. A bookmark is in one collection at most. Add collections under Collections and tags, and click a collection's name or description there to change it. Deleting a collection does not delete its bookmarks; they return to the Inbox.
• Tags. A bookmark can have any number. Type a tag and press Enter or a comma; tags already in use are offered as you type, with how many bookmarks have each. Choose × on a tag to remove it. Tags are stored in lower case, with spaces replaced by hyphens. Click a tag under Collections and tags to rename it; renaming it to the name of another tag merges the two.
• Note. Your own note on the bookmark.
• Read, Favorite and Archived. Archiving keeps a bookmark but leaves it out of every view except Archived.

On a bookmark's page, click the title, description or note to change them, choose its collection, add or remove tags, and use the switches for Read, Favorite and Archived. Changes save immediately. Remove image removes the preview image; checking the page again does not bring it back.

Suggested tags

When you add a bookmark, and on a bookmark's page, Magpie suggests tags: the tags on your other bookmarks from the same site, most used first, and existing tags whose words appear in the title. The bookmark you have just saved shows its suggestions on its row in the list. A suggestion is only added when you choose it.

Each row in the list has Open original, Reader view when there is one, and a More menu with Add to favorites, Mark read and Archive. The row stays in place after you use one, and the menu then offers the opposite, such as Mark unread, so a mistaken choice is undone from the same place.

Find a bookmark

The tabs are All, Inbox, Unread, Favorites and Archived. Search looks in titles, addresses, sites, descriptions, notes, tags and collection names. Choose a collection from the links under the search field, and narrow the list by site or when it was saved.

Tags are listed under the collections, each with how many bookmarks in the current list have it. Choose a tag to show only bookmarks with that tag; choose another to narrow the list to bookmarks with both. Choose a selected tag again, or Any tag, to remove it. The most used tags are shown; when there are more, the link to all tags opens Collections and tags.

Display sets how the list looks and its order. Compact list shows a title and one line per bookmark, List with previews adds the note or description, and Cards with images shows each bookmark's preview image. Magpie remembers your choice. The orders are Newest first, Oldest first, Title, Site and Recently changed.

Change several at once

Select bookmarks with their checkboxes, or use the checkbox above the list to select every bookmark on the page. Then choose Move to a collection, Add tag or Remove tag, Mark them read, unread, favorite or not a favorite, Archive (or Unarchive in Archived) or Move to Trash. In Add tag, type a new tag and press Enter, or choose one in use; typing narrows the list.

Reader view and highlights

When a saved page is an article, Magpie keeps its text. Choose Reader view on the bookmark or its row to read it without the rest of the page. Only the text, headings, lists and links are kept; images, scripts and page styling are not. Not every page has a Reader view, and pages that need a sign-in do not.

At the end of the article, Mark read and open next marks it read and opens the next unread bookmark, and the name of the next unread bookmark is shown below it.

In Reader view, select text and choose Highlight selection. Highlights are listed under the article and on the bookmark's page, where you can add a note to each one. Highlights and article text are never shown on a shared collection.

Bookmarks and RSS Reader

Choose Save bookmark on an entry in RSS Reader. The bookmark records which feed it came from and keeps the entry's text for Reader view, so it stays readable after the entry leaves your feed. Entries already saved in the Personal or team you have selected show Saved in Bookmarks, which opens the bookmark.

To follow a site you have bookmarked, open the bookmark and choose More, then Follow site in RSS Reader. Magpie looks for the site's RSS or Atom feed and adds it to your RSS Reader subscriptions. RSS Reader subscriptions are yours, not your team's, so view access to a team's bookmark is enough to follow its site. See Follow feeds and websites in RSS Reader.

Keyboard shortcuts

Press ? on Bookmarks to see the keys. They match RSS Reader where they do the same thing.

In Reader view, j opens the next unread bookmark, and m, f and e work on the bookmark you are reading. On a bookmark's page, t puts the cursor in its tags.

Send to a note

On a bookmark's page, choose More, then Send to a new note. Magpie opens a new note with the link, your note and your highlights.

Move to Trash

Choose More, then Move to Trash, on a bookmark, or Move to Trash for a selection. It moves at once; select Undo in the message to put it back. Bookmarks in Trash are in the same Trash as the rest of your work, where they can be restored for 30 days; after that they are deleted forever with their saved page and images.

For help with Bookmarks, Contact support.