The Pinport guide

Find your bookmarks

Remember the idea. Pinport helps you get back to the page.

Use the search field at the top of your library. Try a title, a domain, a word from your notes, or a description such as “tools for choosing accessible colors.” Pinport combines semantic search with keyword matching.

Try a more specific thought.

“PDF” is broad. “Merge two PDFs without installing anything” gives search more context. Exact names and domains are useful when you already know what you want.

Narrow it with topics and tags

After a search, the topics above the results come from what it found. Pick one to keep only that part of the results, and Pinport splits it again. Tags narrow too: open Filter next to Select and choose one. Results must match every selected tag.

Order matters. A topic or tag picked after a search keeps that search, and a search after a topic looks only within it. Remove a step to widen the results again, or choose Show all next to the result count to clear search, tags and topics at once. How topics work →

Try it · example library

16 bookmarks

  • Coolors: Color Palette Generator

    coolors.co

  • WebAIM Contrast Checker

    webaim.org

  • Excalidraw: Hand-Drawn Style Whiteboard

    excalidraw.com

  • tldraw: Free Online Whiteboard

    tldraw.com

  • Squoosh: Compress Images

    squoosh.app

  • Lucide Icons

    lucide.dev

  • MDN Web Docs

    developer.mozilla.org

  • Can I use: Browser Support Tables

    caniuse.com

  • regex101: Build and Test Regex

    regex101.com

  • crontab guru: Cron Schedule Editor

    crontab.guru

  • JSON Crack: Visualize JSON

    jsoncrack.com

  • Time Out Lisbon: Where to Eat

    timeout.com

  • Carris: Tram Routes and Timetables

    carris.pt

  • Rome2Rio: Lisbon to Sintra

    rome2rio.com

  • How to Do Great Work

    paulgraham.com

  • The Cathedral and the Bazaar

    catb.org

Choose Design tools, then one of the finer topics that appear. Remove a picked topic with its × to step back.

What Pinport can search

Titles, URLs, your notes, and tags help Pinport find your bookmarks. Where a saved page can be fetched, its text also helps semantic search, so a tool can turn up for what it does even when its name says nothing about it. Pinport fetches saved pages again regularly and updates its index when a page changes; the same checks notice links that have moved or gone (Needs attention). Recently imported pages need time to be processed. Page-content indexing depends on your plan and its monthly allowance; legacy lifetime accounts search bookmark metadata.

Pages behind a login, pages that block automated access, and pages that rely entirely on scripts may have little or no searchable content. A useful title and a short note help you find those links later. About PinportBot.

If a bookmark does not appear

  1. Clear topics and the tag, Untagged, and Needs attention filters.
  2. Try a distinctive word from the title, note, or URL.
  3. Check that you are signed in to the same account on the website and extension.
  4. For a recent import, give background processing time. Try its title or URL meanwhile.
  5. Check your connection and reload if another device has just changed the library.

Search shows ranked matches, not necessarily every saved link. Clear the query to browse the full collection. If AI search is unavailable, keyword search provides a fallback.

Search from the address bar

With the desktop extension connected, type p in the browser’s address bar. Press Tab in Chrome/Edge (or Space if enabled), or Space in Firefox, then type your search. Choose a suggestion to open it. Address-bar setup and shortcuts →

The extension’s keyword cannot be changed in Pinport’s settings. For a keyword of your choice, set up a custom website search shortcut. It opens results on the Pinport website and requires a website sign-in.