Start page

The Start page is a dashboard of widgets at app.bookmarkminder.com/home. Open it from Start Page at the top of the sidebar, and set it as your browser's home page or new tab page if you like. A search box sits at the top; widgets fill the rest of the screen, from one column on a phone up to six on a wide monitor. Each widget is as tall as its list, and the next one starts right under the shortest column, so a short widget sits under another short one instead of waiting for a new row.

Searching from the Start page

As you type in the search box, the bookmarks that match appear in a list under it. Click one, or pick it with the arrow keys and press Enter, to open it in the same window. Search operators such as tag: and host: work here too. To see every result in your library instead, click Go.

Editing the layout

1. Click ✎ Edit in the top-right corner.
2. Click Add widget and pick a type.
3. Drag a widget by its ⠿ handle to move it.
4. Use a widget's ⋯ menu to Edit widget…, make it wider with Expand to full width (it then spans two columns), or Remove widget.
5. Click Done. The layout saves to your account and follows you to other browsers.

To start over, choose Reset layout… from the Start page's ⋯ menu, or Reset to default layout under Settings → Start page.

Widget types

Search Bar

Works like the search box at the top: matching bookmarks appear as you type, and Go searches your library.

Recent

Your most recently saved bookmarks.

Favorites

Bookmarks you have added to favorites.

Tag

Every bookmark with one tag you choose.

Collection

Every bookmark in one collection you choose.

RSS Feed

The latest items from an RSS or Atom feed, optionally filtered by a keyword. We fetch the feed for your browser, so we see the feed's address.

Widget settings

In edit mode, choose Edit widget… from a widget's menu to change:

• Title: leave it blank to use the default name.
• Items to show: 1 to 50.
• Sort order: newest first, oldest first, alphabetical, or manual. With manual, reorder bookmarks inside the widget while in edit mode.
• The tag, collection, or feed address and keyword the widget shows.

Widget appearance

The Appearance section of the same dialog styles one widget at a time:

• Icon next to the title: an emoji, a site's icon (enter the site's address), or a small image you upload. Uploads are shrunk to 32 pixels and must be PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF.
• Header colour: one of the presets, which have light and dark mode shades, or your own #rrggbb. The title text switches to black or white, whichever is easier to read.
• Border colour, background tint, compact spacing, square corners, and hide title.

Custom CSS for a widget isn't available yet.

Opening links

By default links open in a new tab. Switch with Open links in new tab in the Start page's ⋯ menu, or choose under Settings → Start page → Link behavior.

Privacy

Widgets show your decrypted bookmarks in your browser. With Privacy Mode on, the layout itself (widget titles, the tag a Tag widget shows, collections, RSS feed addresses, and widget icons and colours) is encrypted with your account key too, so you need to unlock before your Start page appears. A layout saved before Privacy Mode was on is encrypted the next time you open the Start page while unlocked.

RSS feeds are still fetched by our server, so it sees a feed's address each time a feed widget loads. Our logs record the feed's site name, never the full address.