Using MyLinks

Collections

A collection groups related links (by project, by topic, or however you organize your own bookmarks). A link can belong to several collections at once.

Every account has one collection you cannot delete: the Inbox. It is where a link lands when it is saved without an explicit collection, and where a link falls back to if the last collection holding it is deleted.

Each collection has a visibility:

• Private: visible only to you.
• Public: reachable by anyone with the link, no account required on their end. See Sharing.

Links

A link has a name, an optional description, a URL, and the collections it belongs to. Marking a link as a favorite pins it to the Favorites view.

Opening a link counts a click, recorded in the background while the page opens. Clicks are what rank your most-used links first: the more you actually open something, the higher it surfaces.

Reordering

Drag a collection in the sidebar, or a link inside a collection, to set your own order; it persists across reloads. Only a collection's author can reorder its links; followers see the author's order.

Dropping a link on a collection in the sidebar moves it there, removing it from the collection you dragged it from. Hold Shift while dropping to add it to the target collection instead of moving it, leaving the source untouched.

From the keyboard: focus a draggable card, press Space to pick it up, the arrow keys to move it, Space again to drop it, or Escape to cancel.

Search

Full-text search covers both collections and links, matching on name and URL. It is available from anywhere in the app, and from the browser extension's panel with a keyboard shortcut (see Browser extension).

Sharing

Any collection set to Public gets a single shareable URL. Anyone who opens it can browse the collection's links without signing in. Making a collection private again immediately closes that URL to anyone but you.

Following a public collection

Signed in, you can follow someone else's public collection from its shared page: the Follow button at the top of the page turns into Unfollow once you do. Your own collections cannot be followed, and a visitor who is not signed in only sees the collection.

Followed collections appear in their own Followed Collections section of your sidebar, where you can drag them into the order you prefer. That order is yours alone. Inside a followed collection you see the author's links in the author's order, and they stay in sync with the author's changes. Following is read-only: you cannot edit the collection or reorder its links.

If the author makes the collection private again, it disappears from your followed collections along with the shared URL.

Export and import

Your links export as plain JSON at any time, from your account settings. The same page accepts that JSON back in, so moving between instances (or just keeping an offline copy) never depends on MyLinks staying available.