Bookend: AI-powered Bookmark Organizer

About

Turn years of accumulated Chrome bookmarks into a clean, searchable, AI-organized library.

You've been hoarding bookmarks for years — Reddit threads, YouTube videos, Twitter posts, articles, shopping links, recipes, research papers — and Chrome's flat folder view makes them impossible to navigate. Half might be dead links by now and you'd have no way to know.

Bookend reads your full Chrome bookmark library, checks every link for liveness, and uses Google Gemini to organize what's left into a custom category tree tailored to your collection. Then it shows everything in a clean, searchable dashboard built for libraries with thousands of bookmarks.

Key Features include:

- AI Categorization, Tailored to You: Bookend samples your actual library and asks Gemini to propose a custom 2-level taxonomy — categories like "Tech › AWS", "Travel › Visa", "Reference › Cooking" that match what you've actually saved. No generic buckets.
- Liveness Checks: Every link gets a real HTTP request — classified as Live, Dead, or Unreachable. Dead links go in a quarantine bucket so you can review and clean them up in one click, without losing the title and preview.
- Clean, Familiar Dashboard: Sidebar tree of categories and top domains. Search, date sort, and pagination at 100 per page — built for libraries with thousands of bookmarks. Looks and feels like Chrome's native bookmark page.
- Manual Override: Don't agree with the AI? Right-click any category to rename or delete (bookmarks roll up to the parent). Bulk-select rows and move them to any category yourself. The AI does the heavy lifting; you keep final say.
- Export Anywhere: Download any filtered view as JSON, standalone HTML, or Markdown.
- 100% Local & Open Source: Your bookmarks never touch a server — everything runs on your machine. The full source is on GitHub: https://github.com/HarshCasper/Bookend

How to use:

1. Get a free Gemini API key. Visit https://aistudio.google.com/apikey, sign in with any Google account, click "Create API key". No credit card required — Gemini's free tier is more than enough to scan a typical bookmark library. (Tutorial: https://youtu.be/Ra4KObIlXZQ)
2. Install the extension. The Settings page opens automatically. Paste your key, click "Validate & save".
3. Click the Bookend icon in your Chrome toolbar.
4. Click ⟳ Scan. Accept the permission prompt (Bookend needs to fetch each bookmark to check if it's still alive).
5. Wait 5–10 minutes (depending on your library size). When it's done, your dashboard is ready.
6. Browse, search, clean up. Bulk-select dead links and remove them from Chrome. Right-click categories to refine the taxonomy. Export anything as JSON, Markdown or HTML.

Privacy: Bookend has no servers, no accounts, and no telemetry. Your bookmarks and your Gemini API key live in your browser only. The only outbound traffic is:

1. HTTPS GETs to your own bookmark URLs
2. HTTPS POSTs to Google's Gemini API. 

We literally cannot see your data.

Pricing: Free, forever. Open source on GitHub.

Don't pretend you'll come back to your bookmarks one day. Install Bookend and finally see what you've been saving.