Chrome is somehow missing one of the most basic features you would expect on a web browser: sorting bookmarks by date. Is there any way around this issue besides not using Chrome? I love Chrome but I have thousands of bookmarks.
asked Aug 21, 2012 at 16:23
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2Did you check the Chrome Web Store? Someone may have already created an extension to do this.– L2GAug 21, 2012 at 16:39
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1I found a couple of bookmark-sorting extensions in there (searching with "sort bookmarks"), but they both seem to sort by name only. You could try persuading the developers of those extensions to add a date-sorting option; they may not realize there's a demand for that ability.– L2GAug 21, 2012 at 16:46
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Pretty ridiculous how Chrome wouldn't have this feature built in, and the solution is a desktop application. People didn't even make Extensions for this.– JasonMar 21, 2014 at 5:24
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1Hah! I'm sure this is a conscious decision. For years I've been amazed at how Chrome, despite all it's greatness, is pretty useless in terms of managing bookmarks. I figured the message they send is clear, and a bit sad, but basically it's: bookmarks are messy, use search instead. Oh and don't use offline search, use Google ;-) So in essence, I think we have to use something else to manage a "sane" bookmarks library than Chrome. Perhaps an extension or some web app, I dunno yet.– derybAug 11, 2017 at 15:33
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Chrome Bookmark Manager does allow users to sort bookmarks by name, but it only allows you to do this for one folder at a time.
Chrome Bookmarks Sorter is a handy tool (for Windows) which will allow users to sort bookmarks recursively by name or date added through all of your bookmark folders.
To recursively sort bookmarks in Google Chrome, close all Google Chrome windows and launch this application, select the parameters you want to sort the bookmarks as, and click on the Sort Bookmarks button.
The utility will take care of reordering the bookmarks as you have chosen. Chrome Bookmarks Sorter is a portable software.
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@L2G portable means it doesn't need to install and the
.net framework 3.5is very common now for most of the apps.– avirkAug 21, 2012 at 16:57 -
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@armanke13 it seems that extension is dead for now just use this one chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recursive-bookmark-sorter/… for now and check.– avirkOct 31, 2017 at 14:45
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Sorting by name works out of the box recursively for all folders now. Tested in Chrome 63.0.3239.84. Dec 26, 2017 at 16:10
I found that Chrome extension Recent Bookmarks works well for me on Mac and Ubuntu where the Chrome Bookmark Sorter is Windows-only.
Update: When I got a new machine and logged into my Google account, previous Chrome bookmark order was no longer correctly preserved. Still the best alternative I've found for non-Windows, but not perfect.
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Best solution without having to download an app like the top answer suggests. Limited to showing 1,000 bookmarks.– JasonMar 21, 2014 at 5:30
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@Jason You can choose any number in the settings by editing HTML, or change directly in localStorage. Dec 31, 2017 at 5:36
I know this is an old question but I came across it while googling for the same thing... then I found Dewey Bookmarks... It's exactly what chrome has been missing with the standard bookmarks manager! Their website is http://deweyapp.io/ the chrome store page is https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dewey-bookmarks/aahpfefkmihhdabllidnlipghcjgpkdm and they also have an informative github page but I don't have enough reputation to link to it.
Dewey features:
- Adding custom tags
- Generating screenshots of your bookmarks (Provided by Snapito)
- Searching and Sorting:
- A standard search returns anything with that word in the Tag, Title or URL.
- Add
tag:before a word to limit results that have that specific tag applied. - Add
title:before a word to limit results to titles that contain that word. - Add
url:before a word to limit results to URLs that contain that word. - Sort your bookmarks and your search results by Date, Title, or URL.
Happy bookmarking!
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I found it didn't correctly sort by date, which is what I was after.– mgkrebbsSep 30, 2018 at 20:19
They also mentioned in comments a Chrome extension Sprucemarks which sorts bookmarks automatically - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fakeocdnmmmnokabaiflppclocckihoj
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You can use this extension Booklyst that sort the bookmarks by date.
I strongly recommend this chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/supersorter/hjebfgojnlefhdgmomncgjglmdckngij?hl=en
It is powerful, fast and you have 10 options like Delete duplicates, Delete Empty Directories, Sort Methods, etc...
There is also this one but I had some issues with it almost every Major upgrade of CHrome so... but the choice is yours so here the link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recursive-bookmark-sorter/oalceifbkhhehhinpifagdnickeeehlk
Hope this helps!
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And does not work anymore with the current version (60.0.3112.113) Sep 1, 2017 at 16:49
Sortmark
I found Sortmark which works perfect for me. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sortmark/nmhnlemdhjjebiklhbjmpkiekgjjbnfc/related
It has "Order" options:
- [Title] A-Z
- [Title] Z-A
- [URL] A-Z
- [URL] Z-A
- [Added] Old-New
- [Added] New-Old
And it can "Auto Run" to sort your exisiting bookmarks folders, or manually when you press the extension button itself.
You can specify which folders you want to sort: bar / other / mobile.
And you can specify where subfolders will be placed: top / mix / bottom
Finally there is this option to ignore the folder hierarchy in the "Bookmarks bar"
Here are pictures:
Options:
Options showing "Order" dropdown
I exported my bookmarks on diigo.com. The site sorts automatically the bookmarks by date (what is not his first usage). Then, if you want, you can export these bookmrks from diigo to your browser and you have your bookmarks sorted by date. Sorry for my English, I'm French.
that one worked for me like a charm .
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You could try using Recent Bookmarks 1.6.2.
Alphabetize bookmarks
Taken from https://kb.nmsu.edu/page.php?id=72820
- On your computer, open Chrome.
- At the top right, click More More.
- Click Bookmarks and then Bookmark Manager.
- Browse to the folder you want to organize.
- Above your bookmarks, click Organize.
- Click Reorder by Title. Your bookmarks will be listed in alphabetical order.
