Using Google Bookmarks in Google Chrome
I prefer Google bookmarks to Chrome bookmarks because I can access them from anywhere. So I customized Google Chrome to use Google bookmarks. This is an easy customization that requires no special expertise or software add-ons.
First, read how Chrome works with the customization and take a look at the screenshots. Then, if you want the same customization, continue reading to see how it’s done.
To Google bookmark a page in Chrome
To bookmark the current page, I click my Bookmarks button. (You can see in the screenshot that I file it under Send to, but you can put it anywhere.) I optionally edit the title and add tags to make it easy to find later, and click Add bookmark.
At this point, my Google bookmark is saved and I can access it later from anywhere.
To return to a Google bookmarked page in Chrome
To find a Google bookmark page, I use search, naturally. In the address bar (a.k.a. the omnibox), I type gb (for Google Bookmark), press Tab or Space, type search word(s) that match the bookmark name or tags, and press Enter. On the results page, I click the bookmark I wanted.
To add these customizations to Google Chrome
To create the Bookmarks button, drag this bookmarklet to the Google Chrome bookmarks bar: Google Bookmark (or do the same thing from Google’s help page Bookmarks: Using Google Bookmarks, which is where I got it).
You can, of course, add the bookmarklet to a folder, as I did.
To add Google Bookmark search to the Chrome address bar, right-click in the address bar, choose Edit search engines…, click Add, fill out the form as follows, and click OK:
- Name:
- Google Bookmarks
- Keyword:
- gb
- URL:
- http://google.com/bookmarks/find?&q=%s
(In the Search Engines window there is also an option to make this the default search, if you wish.)
Comments on your experiences with this customization (and on the way it is presented above) would be most welcome!
Labels: address bar, bookmarklet, bookmarks, Chrome, customization, Google, Google Bookmarks, Google Chrome, omnibox, search, Search Engines
posted by Scrvpvlvs at 6:00 AM
35 Comments:
Thanks dude at least it help to solve my problem temporary. I doubt why google don't want to integrate Google Chrome with Google Bookmark. I like every thing about Google Chrome, just this issue annoying me.
Thanks man for commenting on my post and suggesting this. It's easier than I expected and it works great.
Anyway I still think that integration with Google Bookmarks should be an out-of-the-box features considering we're talking of one of their service!
Meanwhile with this workaround I'm going to use Chrome a bit more than Firefox ;)
What's that Send to on the bookmark toolbar?
The “Send to” is an ordinary Chrome bookmark folder where I keep my bookmarklets. Besides “Send to” Google Bookmarks, I also have bookmarklets that let me send the current page to Blogger, GMail, Wayback, and Google Translate (to English). The two I use most frequently are Google Bookmarks and Wayback.
I love the "Send To" idea for your bookmarklets. Thanks for the tips!
What a great idea the "send to", where can I find the other bookmarklets code??P especially the dictionary and Gmail???
@Anonymous Check out this article to see how I created the “Send to” folder along with credits and sources for the bookmarklets.
great tip. with a little adaptation i am using this for delicious bookmarks too!
thanks! helped tremendously.
btw what is wayback?
The Wayback Machine gives you older versions of a page. This can be useful when a page has been changed or taken down.
My Wayback button sends the current page to the Wayback Machine, where I can choose the date and see the same page as of that date.
While this isn't quite 'there' yet, the Chrome 2 pre-beta (as they call it, or Alpha as I call it) will support importing Google Bookmarks into Chrome's bookmarks. No syncing yet though.
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel/release-notes/releasenotes201561
Okay, you've just made my day. I jumped right on to the Chrome bandwagon when it was first released, but gave up on it, partly because of this bookmark issue.
Your solution is elegant and simple. Thanks for your help.
Muchas Gracias .
Me ha sido muy útil.
Tkans you very much!
Keny
Thanks for this!
One minor improvement - if you add www to google.com (in the custom search engine URL), you won't have to wait for a redirect, so the bookmark search will be slightly faster.
Thanks! Best explanation / walk through i've seen on the topic. Quite helpful.
Thanx a lot! If you don't mind, I would like to translate it into my blog: javiergimenez.com (naming the origin, of course)
:)
@Javier Certainly!
Great solution! Thanks. However, one tidbit that is needed - the ability to open that bookmark search in a New Tab or Window. I prefer a new Tab. Perhaps this has been addressed elsewhere, but I have been unable to locate that fix. Anyone?
Again, thanks for this!
Thanks ! I'll give Chrome a chance to be my first web browser from now on !
It really helped a lot!
Thanks
thanks, it's very helpful
Thank you very very much!!!
works great!!!!
Thanks, this works great! No wonder sorting bookmarks was not a priority: why sort when you can search. I am happy to have Reorder by title, too.
I prefer to automatically sync from chrome bookmarks to google bookmarks, I didn't like the gb, button, search, tab blahh. I prefer both bookmarks be the same! I feel frustrated
Yep, brilliant job. Thanks for the tip eh; doesn't look like the standard sync'ing for v4 is working right.
Thank you. Couldn't figure out how to do this (and didn't want to be limited only to FF and Xmarks).
Thanks for this Chrome tip. I've been putting off trying Chrome and only installed it today... like it. Coming from Firefox (3.5.3) which I like a lot, Chrome has great minimalist appeal and it's so _fast_! But I missed the FF plug-in for Google Bookmarks. Like many other comments here, I just can't understand why Google don't make an option in the setup to integrate _live_ Google Bookmarks in the Chrome UI. Anyway, your tip is a good workaround until then. Thanks. :-)
Thanks you helped me too. The only thing missing here is the auto-complete of the tags, I really gave use to that in the Firefox extension "Gmarks", without it I might re-enter tags wrongly.. But that's a problem of google's "add bookmarks page"
You're awesome! This is great. =)
that's a great help! Thank you so much!
Thanks for this.
For anyone interested I made a clone of Gmarks for Chrome. It allows you to use Google Bookmarks to store your bookmarks and has type-ahead autocompletion for finding them. Super easy Mac and PC way to sync bookmarks and find them fast.
http://www.prime31.com/chrome/gmark.crx
Just preass Home-Home (home twice) to pull up the search box.
Very helpful post. I've been avoiding using Chrome just because I like to use Google Bookmarks to save locations I want to revisit.
I wonder why the comments in your blog only list the time and not the date? The time is useless but the date tells me if this post is still being commented on.
Peace,
Rob:-]
Thank you ! my friend.
Thanks for this article. It helped me heaps.
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