How to sort bookmarks by date in Chrome web browser

Chrome is somehow missing one of the most basic features you would expect on a web browser: sorting bookmarks by date. Is there any way around this issue besides not using Chrome? I love Chrome but I have thousands of bookmarks.

Anonymous User

Posted 2012-08-21T16:23:58.060

Reputation: 311

1Hah! I'm sure this is a conscious decision. For years I've been amazed at how Chrome, despite all it's greatness, is pretty useless in terms of managing bookmarks. I figured the message they send is clear, and a bit sad, but basically it's: bookmarks are messy, use search instead. Oh and don't use offline search, use Google ;-) So in essence, I think we have to use something else to manage a "sane" bookmarks library than Chrome. Perhaps an extension or some web app, I dunno yet. – deryb – 2017-08-11T15:33:17.173

2Did you check the Chrome Web Store? Someone may have already created an extension to do this. – L2G – 2012-08-21T16:39:46.683

1I found a couple of bookmark-sorting extensions in there (searching with "sort bookmarks"), but they both seem to sort by name only. You could try persuading the developers of those extensions to add a date-sorting option; they may not realize there's a demand for that ability. – L2G – 2012-08-21T16:46:20.183

Pretty ridiculous how Chrome wouldn't have this feature built in, and the solution is a desktop application. People didn't even make Extensions for this. – Jason – 2014-03-21T05:24:21.640

Answers

Chrome Bookmark Manager does allow users to sort bookmarks by name, but it only allows you to do this for one folder at a time.

Chrome Bookmarks Sorter is a handy tool (for Windows) which will allow users to sort bookmarks recursively by name or date added through all of your bookmark folders.

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To recursively sort bookmarks in Google Chrome, close all Google Chrome windows and launch this application, select the parameters you want to sort the bookmarks as, and click on the Sort Bookmarks button.

The utility will take care of reordering the bookmarks as you have chosen. Chrome Bookmarks Sorter is a portable software.

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avirk

Posted 2012-08-21T16:23:58.060

Reputation: 15 151

I downloaded this before, but now it follow dead links.. – armanke13 – 2017-10-30T08:26:27.710

@armanke13 it seems that extension is dead for now just use this one https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recursive-bookmark-sorter/oalceifbkhhehhinpifagdnickeeehlk?hl=en for now and check.

– avirk – 2017-10-31T14:45:58.930

Sorting by name works out of the box recursively for all folders now. Tested in Chrome 63.0.3239.84. – Michael S. – 2017-12-26T16:10:23.403

I was just writing about this one as well. How portable is it, though? The author says that .NET Framework 3.5 is required, which I think does not support anything other than MS Windows. Or maybe Mono could handle it?

– L2G – 2012-08-21T16:53:06.147

@L2G portable means it doesn't need to install and the .net framework 3.5 is very common now for most of the apps. – avirk – 2012-08-21T16:57:55.060

I found that Chrome extension Recent Bookmarks works well for me on Mac and Ubuntu where the Chrome Bookmark Sorter is Windows-only.

Update: When I got a new machine and logged into my Google account, previous Chrome bookmark order was no longer correctly preserved. Still the best alternative I've found for non-Windows, but not perfect.

eebbesen

Posted 2012-08-21T16:23:58.060

Reputation: 221

@Jason You can choose any number in the settings by editing HTML, or change directly in localStorage. – Alex78191 – 2017-12-31T05:36:59.910

Best solution without having to download an app like the top answer suggests. Limited to showing 1,000 bookmarks. – Jason – 2014-03-21T05:30:47.283

I know this is an old question but I came across it while googling for the same thing... then I found Dewey Bookmarks... It's exactly what chrome has been missing with the standard bookmarks manager! Their website is http://deweyapp.io/ the chrome store page is https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dewey-bookmarks/aahpfefkmihhdabllidnlipghcjgpkdm and they also have an informative github page but I don't have enough reputation to link to it.

Dewey features:

Adding custom tags
Generating screenshots of your bookmarks (Provided by Snapito)
Searching and Sorting:
- A standard search returns anything with that word in the Tag, Title or URL.
- Add tag: before a word to limit results that have that specific tag applied.
- Add title: before a word to limit results to titles that contain that word.
- Add url: before a word to limit results to URLs that contain that word.
- Sort your bookmarks and your search results by Date, Title, or URL.

Happy bookmarking!

G.N.

Posted 2012-08-21T16:23:58.060

Reputation: 41

I found it didn't correctly sort by date, which is what I was after. – mgkrebbs – 2018-09-30T20:19:58.087

They also mentioned in comments a Chrome extension Sprucemarks which sorts bookmarks automatically - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fakeocdnmmmnokabaiflppclocckihoj

Alexander Prokofyev

Posted 2012-08-21T16:23:58.060

Reputation: 141

@Jason it sorts. – Alex78191 – 2017-10-23T21:31:00.760

Doesn't sort by date-time. – Jason – 2014-03-21T05:29:45.393

I strongly recommand this chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/supersorter/hjebfgojnlefhdgmomncgjglmdckngij?hl=en

It is powerfull, fast and you have 10 options like Delete duplicates, Delete Empty Directories, Sort Methods etc...

There is also this one but I had some issues with it almost each Major upgrade of CHrome so... but choice is yours so here the link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recursive-bookmark-sorter/oalceifbkhhehhinpifagdnickeeehlk

Hope this helps!

Bojoer

Posted 2012-08-21T16:23:58.060

Reputation: 119

And does not work anymore with the current version (60.0.3112.113) – Michael S. – 2017-09-01T16:49:52.670

2Doesn't sort by date-time. – Jason – 2014-03-21T05:30:28.723

I exported my bookmarks on diigo.com. The site sorts automatically the bookmarks by date (what is not his first usage). Then, if you want, you can export these bookmrks from diigo to your browser and you have your bookmarks sorted by date. Sorry for my English, I'm French.