Arc Browser | Pinned Tabs vs. Bookmarks

[@dobz]

Since switching to exclusively using Arc (and loving it) the lack of traditional bookmarks has been my only problem. There are only a few sites I need a static URL saved for, but they are critical to my workflow. I think the best implementation would be to provide a toggle between a pinned tab and a bookmark. Please try to prioritize fixing this! Thanks for everything else!

[@rasalas91]

Do you usually click through your bookmarks? Or do you search for them? arent archived tabs what you'd expect this feature to be?

[@l4kr]

That's why you try to adapt to the new system instead of being stuck thinking the old way. This is what easels and notes are for.

[@The_RubenM]

Watching this for the first time and noticed at the 3:00 mark she explains how clicking on the tab's icon brings it back to the original link. That might work for your use-case?

[@dobz]

@@The_RubenM hey thanks for the follow up, yes pinned tabs work perfectly for the use case I described. I suspect this wasn't working as expected at my original time of writing, but all is splendid now!

[@mizatt]

Tbh I feel like the lack of traditional bookmarks in Arc is a huge feature gap that I'm having trouble adjusting to. Pinned tabs are great, but they're not an adequate substitute for traditional bookmarks and importing my old bookmarks as a pinned folder causes a usability nightmare where everything gets pushed down every time I open one of them and the folder expands. Pinned tabs are very useful, but I (and I suspect most people) use bookmarks as basically aliases for sites we might want to visit occasionally or at some point in the future, not necessarily every day, and I don't need them there in my face all the time --- particularly, I don't need them above tabs that I'm actively using. I agree with what someone said below ... this is sort of a solution in search of a problem, and the new features Arc introduces haven't adequately negated the need for bookmarks

[@arkadiuszbontur5818]

Move them to another space and start fresh on another space. I am using spaces as placeholders for my tasks. If you want to go to a bookmark just hit cmd + T and search it or move to that space and click on them. This is my approach and it suits me well. Cheers mate

[@_modiX]

I think the idea of Arc is that you start to organize your bookmarks in a deep folder structure. This won't work when you import all your bookmarks from your old browser. I'm on par with you about maybe having a "pinned tab achieve" that utilizes the normal bookmark function of the Chrome web engine. The lack of such option let me decide to not import my endless bookmarks for now. It helps me to get rid of past clutter, but I can't uninstall my old browser for the sake of still being able to access this. Btw, you can still access the Chrome bookmarks by navigating to chrome://bookmarks, but it feels like you are not playing by the rules and probably hit a wall in the future.

[@mizatt]

@@_modiX The problem with that is that if I organize them into a deep folder structure and then go to one of them via the new tab dialog, it expands the whole folder structure and pushes down everything under it in pinned tabs and normal tabs. That feels like really bad UI

[@_modiX]

@@mizatt You seem to be right, I hope they look into this, you should send them a message about it. I had the same problems with my old bookmarks. What I ended up doing was importing my bookmarks via floccus + LoFloccus. I also installed the Faster Bookmarks extension and setup a new custom search in the Chrome settings to search within the old Bookmarks. Faster Bookmarks allows me to save the current page in my old bookmarks. I made this to get all my bookmarks in Arc without polluting the side bar. The only downside is that Arc won't search though it automatically, unless I use the custom search feature. We probably have all too many bookmarks that we forget about. We often will find things from history and I hope that is what Arc tries to do. I have no long term experience with Arc and will see how it goes. I think you can also reduce a lot of clutter by thinking in spaces and organizing your pinned tabs in those as well.

[@pribeirorib]

Absolutely need this feature, I need to maintain a "links repository"

[@ChrisMessina]

Would be great if the pinned tab's favicon switched to a "reset" icon on hover!

[@gcqd]

What do you mean ?

[@obvinpro]

@@gcqd Read it again

[@rasalas91]

@@gcqd this thread is old, but: it could be more clear that it resets the page if it was a reset icon instead of the icon of the page [clicking the pages' logo is usually bringing you back to the homepage]

[@dalexplym4882]

Another vote here for a functional bookmark implementation. Yes, most of us could benefit from less cyber-debris, HOWEVER... there are times when I really want access to a scientific paper I saw six months ago, or need to find that nursery that had a particular kind of tree -- from two or three years ago. While you can try your luck with an Internet search, it is often faster to go into your bookmarks to locate something that you KNOW is there, and can be localized as higher or lower in the list, based on chronology of related entries. The goal is to provide the information we need, WHEN we need it -- and bookmarks are an important part of that process. Tuck them out of the way if you wish, but any effective web browser must make them available and convenient (self-standing bookmark apps notwithstanding).

[@rasalas91]

archived tabs?

[@l4kr]

Easels bro. Easels are made exactly for this and are even better.

[@Naaackers]

This has been the most difficult thing to adjust to since switching to Arc. I don't want to say Arc's implementation is wrong because I like trying new things, but it doesn't fit for me. It doesn't seem intuitive to have the tabs you're browsing be pushed down the more bookmarks you have. I was intrigued by the fact that bookmarks were dynamic and could be navigated, but in practice it just didn't work out for me. I love swiping through spaces with gestures on my trackpad, and think that a space for bookmarks would be perfect for me. By default, clicked bookmarks could be opened into your 'main space', but if you wanted to open it else where you could right click>open to>space _. I love everything else that Arc has tried to break from the norm on, but bookmarks is really built into the core infrastructure of web browsing and this seems like it adds a lot of complexity to something that should be really simple. Thank you for the app so far

[@nexTabDE]

I considered having a dedicated space just for "traditional bookmarks". I don't like that I can usually fast access tabs (CMD + 1, CMD + 2, etc...) but when I have a couple bookmarks there, it's no longer possible. I'm pretty certain I won't come around and like the implementation the browser is using, it feels like I have to come up with workarounds to make it work for me whereas most of the other functionality of the browser was something that made the experience better for me.

[@SilouanWright]

I think if people have tons and tons of bookmarks, they should use an app like Raindrop. I don't feel that tons and tons of bookmarks fit the best in a browser, and I think Arc sort of recognizes this. There's probably a couple of "core" bookmarks you actually use regularly, especially for the different types of work you do (vs just sort of sitting there and being used sometimes). Make some favorites across spaces, make some pinned tabs for those spaces, and file the rest away in Raindrop.

[@l4kr]

Pinned tabs don't replace bookmarks. Use easels for things you don't visit too often.

[@Naaackers]

@@l4kr easels is for drawing and images dropping?

[@zakkforchilli]

Yeah I agree with the majority. I think simply having the ability to hit CMD L or CMD T to bring up the handy box and just search for my saved bookmarks would be just perfect. Plus many are wondering, the bookmarks folder that got imported, are all those tabs going to remain open now? Need to know how ARC manages sleeping tabs and such. That's HUGE. It's the reason for the existence of browsers like Vivaldi, and Firefox plugins such as Sidebery, making use of Chromiums tab unloading. // Also, when a bookmark opens and you close it, there is no visual feedback if I'm in a different tab. Like do I have 100 tabs open over there or not? No idea.

[@_modiX]

So been playing with it for a while. I did not import my bookmarks via Arc, but tricked Arc with floccus + LoFloccus to get my bookmarks into the old bookmark system of Chromium. I still cannot search those, but I could setup a custom search to do so via CMD+T and then typing "bookmark" and hit tab. It works. I'm only doing this, because I have too many bookmarks for the side bar. Pinned tabs on the side bar won't load until you click them and they do unload after a while again. The idea is that you don't have to waste time with tab management, once you sorted your pinned tabs.

[@heminthehat]

I agree with many of the sentiments here. Bookmarks are a very important feature that the faves and pinned tabs cannot replace. I love arc and everytime I switch I keep coming back. My workaround for this has been to use my streamdeck to house my bookmarks. Definitely, not a solution for the browser itself, but has worked for me until we see a different/better implementation.

[@mauricarreno]

Been loving the browser but not switched completely. All pinned tabs inside folder are always active? Im thinking of the ram they can use if you have a lot, same as tabs in Chrome. I saw you are working on a Bookmarks feature so looking forward on that too!

[@First.Last.99]

you are by far the best explainer here for arc, thank you

[@Rustledd]

Everything's been great with Arc but the lack of traditional bookmarks has been a huge pain...

[@leandrodasilvasaraiva371]

How can I run javascript(like this javacript:alert("example")) on bookmarks like chrome? I`m using Arc few months, but I miss this function

[@jordynelizabeth3180]

Pinned tabs are great but I really think we need something like bookmarks for tabs/ websites we don’t need active but will want to revisit in the future many times across differ workspaces depending on the projects we are working on

[@soyhenryxyz]

this seems like a solution to a problem that didnt exist bookmarks for me are mostly dormant. i save design resources and now i have to create a "Space" for them because i don't want them crowding up my main Space how do you recommend i manage bookmarks in a "traditional" manner like Chrome? i find it disruptive to open a tab from the bookmark folder only to get switched to that Space. It's very disorienting.

[@MaykThewessen]

when going to a URL that is known in my bookmarks, it automatically opens up the folder and shows them, but this is a list of 40 bookmarks, making my side view unclear and obstructed, can that be changed?

[@Danny_6969]

Hey there its been 1/2 a year since I have been using arc browser and facing an issue that whenever I restart the application it opens up the previous windows and doesn't closes it automatically (I have to close even single window manually so is there any way fix this issue? cuz I want my browser to open up with a new window and closes previous sessions whenever I restart it 🥲🥲

[@AlexLobaev]

Just wanted to add the common opinion. I'm happy with pinned tabs but I really need just a list of sites in a minimalistic format to be stored somewhere like it is done in Chrome. Folder is not an option for this, it takes space while I may need by bookmarks 2 times a week only. And I need them in "Work" space

[@BryceDriesenga]

Have you tried using an Arc Note for this? Seems like it would work perfectly. Then just pin that Bookmarks note and you're good to go.

[@KaseyRichrds]

@@BryceDriesenga This is actually a really good idea. Thank you! It also doesn't keep the tabs active so you wouldn't need to worry about battery consumption.

[@TheOther12523]

Love the Arch browser but I hope you guys consider redesigning it so we can have regular bookmarks (with the ability to mark them like on Chrome). There are those of us with thousands of bookmarks, and having it in tab form, even organized if in folders, is just inconvenient.

[@MrPBJTIME12]

Unless I'm misunderstanding pinned as described in the video, there does not seem to be any concept of true bookmarking, "pinned tabs are real live tabs...they exist already...you don't have to launch them...they're already open". So all of the pages from my imported bookmarks, articles, PDF links, videos etc. are in a type of live/ready state at all times? That seems like a tremendous overhead cost and eating my computer's resources. It does not feel like there has been consideration of user personas I'll call '"bookmarkers". Lots of individuals carefully collect and maintain a knowledge hierarchy in their bookmarks, saving resources they will refer back to on for time to come. They don't need these in a live/ready state--they simply need to have it saved in a folder structure they can navigate on. Most of all, *they can export them*. I get you're changing the way the browser works, but some functionality is just standard and I don't think that should make me a luddite for saying so. Another difficulty I face is moving between spaces--which I see akin to separate windows I'd normally switch between with cmd + ` -- you don't have any of your imported bookmarks (tabs) in the new space so I'm only supposed to work in a single space to have access to my folders and links I need? Outside of that near deal-breaker for me, I'm loving everything about this browser from the keyboard customization, theming, UI as a whole--one in particular being "presentation mode" as the native structure of the browser (full view of my content and nothing else, not full-screen). I don't like full -screen because for navigation/speed I don't like panning between different desktop windows when I'm not using external desktops, the reloading/movement is just disorienting compared to cmd + tab app switches and keyboard nav of tabs. Major kudos to the team for what you have shipped and are building, but I think a scan of this comment section, HN threads, or a user feedback section would again the aforementioned points. Edit: no I have not ever been able to figure out how to change my user display name from 4th grade shenanigans and Google has no concept of support chat/call

[@threeworlds]

In my case i use traditional bookmarks in Chrome as a replacement for the sites menu. For example in Shopify I have a list of the places I need to go to often, in a folder Shopify. So Shopify/Order, Shopify/Product, Shopify/Create Order etc etc. So then I don't need to go digging through their menu to find the page I need.

[@МаксимИванов-с1к7б]

Arc is a great browser! Thank you for your work, guys. But I need help to undo the renaming of a tab. There is no "Back to the previous name of the tab" when hover the tab

[@ravipratapmishra7013]

Any shortcut keybinding to search pinned tabs exclusively

[@davidc2072]

Been using it for months and didn't know about reset.

[@ainame0954]

The functionality to click the favicon and go back to the original URL is gone...? I could still do Command + T and reset

[@Gektorometer]

It drives me nuts when i duplicate a pinned tab a few times (eg while using grafana and comparing several time periods) and the created tabs are also pinned. Or when i use ctrl j to navigate to a “bookmark” via fuzzy finder, but instead of opening the pinned tab it creates a new one. Absolutely hate it.

[@BF-non]

Why not implement bookmarks when you open a new tap and only show them there above the search modal

[@danishiftikhar4660]

Now i have multiple websites opened up and i dont know which one is open. Arc is using 6bg . I want to kill all and just want to keep a few. Arc should tell what tabs are open

[@fandydiadline]

I was initially taken aback when Arc implemented their new approach, given the large number of bookmarks that I have synced from Edge. However, upon reflection, I find myself somewhat confused by this new approach. It seems unnecessary to me, as I don't necessarily open all of my bookmarks daily. There are some bookmarks that I haven't opened in over two years, yet I still know exactly where to find them, as they are essential to me.

[@PatrickMcC-r2f]

I think this is just an example of different people using browsers differently.. I have 3000 bookmarks built up over the past few years and I don’t have time or motivation to sort them out. I can find the ones I use often and know where the rest are when I need them. This idea seems great for minimalists though.

[@rns10]

The problem with this pinned tab feature is how easy it is it misclick and lose the tab. Even if its in pinned tab, you misclick it twice, the tab directly goes to archive, and its not easy to search in archive which site you by mistake removed. There has to be a right click feature to remove pinned tab, not by just left click on cross. That may solve it. also another thing is its not easy to identify how many tabs are actually open, when the pinned tabs are hidden under the folder structure.

[@thisandthatguy1156]

How do we update the pinned url in this case? We'll have to unpin and pin again?

[@marcus-brody]

Hi, how do you login to multiple accounts of the same website across different workspaces?

[@EightSong]

what if I want it to be a JS code?

[@amoszander047]

I think you guys should find a way to manage nested bookmarks cuz mine are deeeeep with the folder and Arc has to open every single one to get there. Should add: 1. quick "pinned" and ability to choose which file 2. On the taskbar of the macOS like safari, do a dropdown for "pinned", maybe called them favorites and pinned & favorite don't interfere with each other. Those two are my only friction using Arc other than than maybe the best browser so far. Bookmarks may break it tho.

[@BotondKuti]

There is nothing wrong with bookmarks, pinned tabs and bookmarks just have different purposes. Bookmarks are just buttons to quickly open a page in a tab without the button becoming the tab. That is a feature. It even fits Arc's goal of trying to reduce tabs. I've been using Arc as my main personal browser for a long time and now I can use the Windows version on my work laptop too. I miss bookmarks the most for work and the ironic thing is that Arc intends to make money from companies adopting it, right? find myself going back and forth between Edge and Arc because of this ... I know bookmarks are not fully removed from Arc, but the function of bookmark as button isn't there. Please add it back, just like normal browsers have it. There is no innovation in removing it.

[@xf0f0f0]

Returned to Chrome because I didn’t get this logic. Side bar bookmarks, split view and fast profile switching are great, but you definitely need to rework the whole “pinned tabs as icons, then pinned tabs again, then tabs” approach. Until then, see you

[@CarlosMtnez-p5q]

In many cases, the concept of bookmarks as tabs does not work for me. You should give the user the opportunity to use traditional bookmarks. Additionally, I have many bookmarks; some I use infrequently, and others I need to be very accessible. In Brave, I use the bookmarks bar a lot. I have bookmarks without text (only icons) and folders that show me more bookmarks. One idea for Arc is to implement a bookmarks toolbar at the top, in a very thin bar with small icons.

[@Canis1Majoris]

I just wish I opened site through bookmark (maybe in new tab), worked in it, leave it opened and open another tab with exact same site. Bookmarks is bookmarks. It's about fast access to open site in different tabs in different ways (same or new tab). It's not about tabs at all. Pinned tabs is more about read later and not about bookmarks. One of the main reason I couldn't switch to Arc :(

[@hektq]

it's garbage. What if I have 956 bookmarks in a more than 40 structured directories, and I want to get access to them in all workspaces???

[@spcphd]

I understand it economizes space, but its too confusing. Should just have a regular bookmarks tab and quickaccess bookmarks in the browser.

[@AyaanHaqq]

pinned tabs killed my batterylife, thats why bookmarks are so helpful

[@user32352]

i have like 1400 bookmarks..... arc ui is not for me

[@HerrDerpington]

No bookmarks prematurely killed your product.

[@richardj1319]

Unfortunately, not having bookmarks is a big dealbreaker for me and most people I know. You're trying to solve something that doesn't need solving for most people, and is contrary to how most people want to use their browser. The rest of the browser seems fantastic, but this is something that I can't get past.

[@sarthakgadge5223]

come on arc needs bookmark, there are so many sites that i need but dont want them to be opened all the time, please fix them, also i dont want to see all the tabs when i do ctrl + tab. arc is great but please improve on this.

[@hhbadarin]

Not seeing any difference between this and chrome tabs/ bookmark folders!

[@amateurs_2755]

能不能把垂直的标签栏放在右边，左边实在是难受

[@TheBrowserCompany]

something we're considering - thanks for the idea!

[@BahaàAddinElBalashony]

Chrome has pinned taps too, you know!

[@juvian2758]

You know this just doesn't work for me, not when you have hundreds of bookmarks and you open a couple like you usually do in like chrome, you would only have the couple tabs you just opened from your bookmarks, but with Arc your bookmarks wont just open as a tab they stay open in the bookmark section so now I have to scroll a big freaking list to go from one bookmar to the next as if they were tabs.... unless something more traditional comes up Im gunna stay away from Arc.

[@erazorDev]

Sorry but this concept does not fly with me. I have hundreds of bookmarks. The thought of all of those being "just active" at all times feels just wrong. And the fact that you now even have to reset them after navigation is totally strange.

[@renssu4351]

still cant scroll tho, useless browser

[@ThePandaGuitar]

I don't give a fuck what justification the Arc team comes up with. No bookmarks is the dumbest thing I have ever seen and is the sole reason I will never the Arc browser. Don't tell me about the raindrop cloud bullshit. I need bookmarks on the browser locally.

[@xianxinzeng445]

You are so cute 😍

[@1778zero]

useless pinned tab omg, too biased explanation

[@jrgarciab]

The vocal fry is so bad. So bad.

[@generalrodcocker1018]

this browser sucks!

[@ardjunas1229]

please at least give us an option to keep the original bookmarks. I work with a lot of projects and sometimes I have very specific links that need to be kept in the bookmarks folder but I don't want it to take up a full tab on the sidebar. Just implement this one change and your browser will be the best browser ever and very easy for anyone to switch to.

[@MrSeattledan]

she shouldn't do guide videos if a person says even easier by pressing commant T; than type reset......whatever..i am yet to see a detailed simple guide to usage of this browser...

[@Sodium779]

I have over 6000 bookmarks in Chrome, can Arc Browser help me, or do I need Jesus?

[@umeshgallage9347]

If you still haven't migrated I would suggest keeping both browsers and slowly transferring into Arc because its pin system is very different. I am using different spaces for different tasks to ease the clutter.

[@tomazwang]

Some "bookmarks" are site that I want to remember but not visit everyday. My pinned tabs goes very long and I usually don't know which tab is activated and which are not. Is there any way I can store sites by more traditional bookmark way rather than pin them?

[@TheBrowserCompany]

working on this! here's one improvement for now: twitter.com/ArcInternet/status/1593654651039072256

[@fyfirman]

@@TheBrowserCompany That's helpful but adding new bookmark is not straight forward like traditional browser. We have to CMD+D and drag them to specific folder which going crazier if you have more nested folder. Is there any plan for that?

[@GeorgeLathem]

Literally been my issue for so long

[@jirehla-ab1671]

​@@TheBrowserCompanyin the settings, can we readd the url adress bar on top?

[@charan775]

But I don't want all those pinned tabs to be live tabs. Most of those tabs I visit very rarely but I still want to save them. So a bookmark option would be better in these usecases

[@DustinWyatt]

Why do you care if they're live or not?

[@charan775]

@@DustinWyatt because if they are live they are consuming laptop cpu and memory which is slowing down my browser

[@DustinWyatt]

@@charan775 They're put to sleep when you're not actively using them.

[@Nil-js4bf]

Was really excited by the easel feature so I signed up but the lack of bookmark support is likely going to be a deal breaker for me. I'm guessing traditional bookmarks goes against your mantra of avoiding tab hell since it typically accumulates old sites that will never be read. But removing it makes managing sites that you do visit semi regularly painful since this list can get pretty long and trying to find it in the limited vertical space is not a pleasant UI experience. Edit: Found a trick where you can pin arc://bookmarks to make it easier to navigate to a bookmark. I have no idea how to actually save new bookmarks in nested folders though.

[@_modiX]

I synced my old bookmarks into arc://bookmarks using floccus + LoFloccus. After that you still cannot search them with CMD+T, but you can setup a new custom search that targets arc://bookmarks/?q=%s. Then you can type your keyboard (i.e. bookmarks), hit tab, type your keyword and it opens arc://bookmarks with your search query. Clunky. Also you play against the rules, no idea how this will turn out in the long run. I just hope they don't rip out legacy bookmarks entirely, but instead listen to this comment section and try to incorporate the Chromium Bookmarks as a sort of "Bookmark Archive".

[@l4kr]

Instead of bookmarks save them to easels.

[@JohnFrazier]

the pinned vs regular tab breaks more than a decade of muscle-memory. I'm not really sure I see the value.

[@drpepa09]

How about having option to make imported Bookmarks into folders with preview image.. chrome browser bookmarks once upon a time did that. Basically a tab view and another option for Folder view👍

[@emlezdev]

Something I learned today it's that there's an option within the Shortcuts settings, that allows you to create a shortcut for expanding and collapsing all folders you might have! I didn't see an option for this on the Command Bar, but surely is in the Shortcuts settings :D

[@justafreak15able]

Pinned Tab is not a solution for Bookmarks. It's so stupid. who was the product manager working on this?

[@leontedev]

I need traditional bookmarks... this might be a deal-breaker for me. I don't want my bookmarks to be active tabs at all times - I have hundreds of them. I don't want to change my bookmark when navigating inside, and then have to reset my state etc. I don't want to push my tab list all the way after the bookmarks.

[@MAXsystem1]

انتو اكيد بتهزرو مين الغبي الي اقترح الاقتراح دة انت عارف المفضلة عندي حجمها قد اية علشان اعملها بالشكل دة تم الرجوع عن المتصفح لحين التعديل

[@geirasES]

Had to open Chrome again because the company where I work uses cookies that are activated via the Bookmark bar. There's no way to use something similar on Arc. Anyway, keep it going. I'm loving Arc browser, so far.

[@dmitriyivkov7578]

How do these pinned tabs affect performance? (relative to bookmarks)

[@depralexcrimson]

this is horrible, add bookmarks...

[@SridharKatakam]

Not sure why you are comparing the bookmarks in Chrome with pinned tabs in Arc. We can pin tabs in Chrome too :)

[@fran-m-ferreiro]

Pinned tabs in Arc mix the functionality of Bookmarks and Pins. Pins in Chrome are not bookmarked

[@YuriOxeVei]

Please add the traditional bookmark feature. Everything else is just great, but the lack of bookmarks is not even a feature, it's a flaw, and I don't wanna "adjust" to that. Bookmarks should be universal across all spaces, otherwise it loses it's purpose. I'm sure most people agree on this.

[@govindpvenu]

Yes, WE NEED BOOKMARKS!!

[@JacquesvanWyk]

This was good when I only had few pages and folders but soon got a mess when I got loads of folders. I know I can clean up more with top folders but just still feel bookmarks is such a pain in browsers.

[@_modiX]

arc://bookmarks is a deep archive, but it's not what the Arc team wants you to use.

[@wiktor_vn_waffel]

Pinned tabs are great idea, but they're not a replacement for bookmarks. Bookmarks are used for keeping pages for a long time, sites you visit once a year for example. Boormarks (which is not belong to any space) could be pinned in space, and that's a good way to create a certain workspace in, like, space =D Please, return bookmarks.

[@krisKrag]

Do pinned tabs munch on RAM? Asking for a professional friend. i have thousands of bookmarks :S

[@gag_singh]

I admire the efforts but am I the only one that still thinks pinned tabs in chrome is better? But then chrome lacks the ability to group pinned tabs: as soon as the tabs are grouped, they are unpinned and tabs are resized to their usual size. :/

[@Aitchy_]

Ive just adopted Arc and I do love it, but I somewhat agree with the consensus.. I like to use the pinned tabs as sites I like to visit alot, however sometimes I want to save a particular page on a site as a "bookmark" so to speak. I see using the folders as a solution to having seperate "bookmarks" but if I've opened the website originally on one of my pinned tabs, I then have to copy the url, open a new tab , paste the url and then pin that tab to a folder. I realise you can simplify this by duplicating the tab, then saving it to the folder... But then the tab carries the original tab name, and not the page name which bares the name of the article. I find this a bit convoluted. It would be cool if there were a command to simply "pin current page url to " without affecting my current pinned tab that is open. In my news space, I want to have my frequently visited sites pinned as tabs, and have folders to save articles as bookmarks. But if I've started browsing from the pinned tabs, theres no way of saving that page to a folder without affecting the orginally pinned tab (unless I do it in the manner I described first.)

[@danielperry2038]

I had 100's and 100's of bookmarked and filed tabs in Safari. Useful sites and pages I refer back to when I need them. How would you manage this in Arc? Possibly too much to manage with spaces and folders? Or maybe I just create a space for this purpose, and fill it full of folders. On this point where do I fine the bookmarks that were supposedly imported from Safari? I can't find them anywhere. Thanks :)

[@klavr]

Management-wise, maybe you can replace some of the bookmarks by making a few Easels with live page updates?

[@danielperry2038]

Found my imported book marks, in a folder in the Arc workspace.

[@TheBrowserCompany]

working on bookmarks mgmt as we speak! twitter.com/ArcInternet/status/1585727654736502784

[@bandisandeep]

@@TheBrowserCompany any way to subscribe to updates on this specific feature. This is one last feature thats stopping me from completely moving from Chrome as I have 100s of bookmarks and don't want them to be live pages in Arc.

[@bandisandeep]

@TheBrowserCompany any update on this ?

[@prasetyo1884]

Please just add traditional bookmark. The list of site that I need to pin just going crazier throughout the day, which makes my workflow seem to be inefficient. Just listen to your user

[@ethanmenzel]

What you think are pinned tabs which are actually called never archive tabs should actually be called favorites. Instead pinned tabs are more where favorites are currently which are the boxy icons at the very top underneath the search bar.

[@AlanVukas]

In my experience so far with Arc - which I've been enjoying. There has been a bit of learning curve, but I have come to see that all of those hundreds of bookmarks was more digital hoarding...if I need to go back to something, I can search items under Archive, and even filter them in specific spaces.

[@_modiX]

Good point. I got my old bookmarks into arc://bookmarks using a trick, but only for back reference. I try to get clean of my digital hoarding by shifting the way of thinking as well. I think that is what Arc tries to teach you, but the Tab Archive feels loose in a sense that it doesn't feel permanent. Like, some day the link could be gone. Will the Archive persist? If not forever, for how long? I don't know.

[@depralexcrimson]

what if you dont remember what u wanted? what then? what if u dont remember the website lol!

[@abinandhancena7774]

Hey people, can someone say how to backup my pinned and favorite tabs so that i can import it in another device?

[@kicnbac]

No home button, so thats a no for me.

[@hl7297]

just keep pinned tabs and bookmarks separate things thank you

[@shankar_vshankar]

what about things that I want to access once in a blue moon but consistently?

[@thetechnerd7467]

Cool but if these tabs are always open, ram will suffer

[@big4ca]

creative team!!!

[@ishhanian]

Usability wise this isnt very discoverable. I was wondering about this and if I haven't stumbled upon this video by chance I wouldn't have discovered it ever.

[@arthurbrewster]

So does that mean whenever I launch Arc, unlike chrome when bookmarks are just bookmarks which stayed unopened, my pinned tabs are automatically opened but just not shown to me? If that's the case, it will consume A LOT OF battery cuz I've always used pinned tabs as bookmarks and I have a lot of them......🥴

[@iammukto]

I am still using Microsoft Edge just because Arc doesn't have a traditional bookmark. pin tab is great but people like me who have 1k+ organized bookmark is a nightmare with pin tab. I tried with an extension but did not feel comfortable. and closing all tab in Edge feel so satisfying

[@ricsilvavideos]

I was completely lost with this new concepts.. this video saved me!!! Thanks!

[@lucerml9175]

i pinned gmail and when i put my pointer on it, an "unread" pop up appears and i'd like to remove it, how can i do that?

[@jabeztadesse]

Ctrl + T > Questions ... oh wait, I'm on KZbin.

[@ardjunas1229]

Pinned tabs are great but I really think we need something like bookmarks for tabs/ websites we don’t need active but will want to revisit in the future many times across differ workspaces depending on the projects we are working on

[@ardjunas1229]

Pinned tabs are great but I really think we need something like bookmarks for tabs/ websites we don’t need active but will want to revisit in the future many times across differ workspaces depending on the projects we are working on

[@DmitroDubskiy1248]

times, when twitter wasn't X🥲