Bookmark ScoutInstall
Add Bookmark Scout to Chrome from the Chrome Web Store. Firefox and Edge versions are coming soon to their stores.
Bookmark Scout is free, with no account and no ads. It runs in a browser on a computer, not on phones or tablets.
Add it to Chrome
Install Bookmark Scout from its Chrome Web Store listing.
On the listing, click Add to Chrome, then Add extension. Chrome asks for one thing only: to read and change your bookmarks. Other features ask for more only when you first use them, and say why; see Permissions.
Pin the icon: click the puzzle-piece Extensions button at the right of the toolbar, then the pin next to Bookmark Scout.
Save your first page: see Your first save.
Right after you add it, a page titled Bookmark Scout is ready opens in a new tab with the same first steps: pin the icon, save a page, and the keys of your quick save shortcut (or Set it up when another extension already uses them). It opens only once, when you first install Bookmark Scout, never after an update. Read the guide on it opens Save and organize, and Open settings opens Settings.
A copy from the store updates on its own.
Firefox and Edge
Bookmark Scout is coming soon to Firefox Add-ons.
Bookmark Scout is coming soon to Microsoft Edge Add-ons.
Until a store lists it, you can install Bookmark Scout by hand from GitHub, as described below. That takes a few more steps, and in Firefox you repeat them after every restart.
After installing
- Click the Bookmark Scout icon on any page to save it or to search your bookmarks. Start with Your first save.
- Press Alt+Shift+S (⌥⇧S on a Mac) on any page to save it without opening anything. See Save with a keyboard shortcut.
- In Chrome, Bookmark Scout replaces the browser's bookmarks page with its own bookmarks manager. Open it as before, for example with Ctrl+Shift+O (⌥⌘B on a Mac), or with Open bookmark manager in the popup. Its Tools sidebar holds the cleanup tools.
- Settings open in a tab: right-click the toolbar icon and choose Options. See Settings.
Updating
A copy installed from a store updates on its own, and updates keep your settings. One past update, to version 0.3.3, was an exception: it reset Bookmark Scout's own saved data once, though never your bookmarks; see the FAQ.
To keep a copy of your settings, custom prompts, AI services, and saved searches at any time, use Back up settings at the bottom of Settings.
Advanced: install by hand from GitHub
Use this only if your browser's store does not list Bookmark Scout yet, or to test a release. A copy installed this way does not update on its own: to update, download the newer release and repeat the steps.
Each GitHub release has one download per browser:
| Browser | File |
|---|---|
| Chrome | bookmark-scout-<version>-chrome.crx or bookmark-scout-<version>-chrome.zip |
| Microsoft Edge | bookmark-scout-<version>-edge.zip |
| Firefox | bookmark-scout-<version>-firefox.zip |
Download it from the latest GitHub release, then follow the steps for your browser.
Download bookmark-scout-<version>-chrome.crx or bookmark-scout-<version>-chrome.zip. If you use the ZIP, extract it to a folder you will keep, because Chrome loads the extension from that folder.
Open chrome://extensions/ and turn on Developer mode (top right).
Drag the CRX file onto the page, or click Load unpacked and select the extracted folder.
Pin Bookmark Scout to the toolbar from the puzzle-piece Extensions menu.
Building from source
To work on Bookmark Scout, build it yourself: follow Contributing and development.
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