Save the window to a file
Save all tabs, then export a backup. It carries every reminder and every kept page - one file, on your disk, that restores exactly on the other machine. A saved window travels as a share link instead.
Take the whole pile with you.
Tabs are the one thing a browser will not hand over cleanly. Latr saves a window to a file you own, reads the list formats everything else exports, and keeps the structure you built rather than flattening it.
- No account, ever
- Free, and not a trial
- Nothing leaves your browser
The problem
A browser will sync a bookmark and shrug at a tab
New laptop, or a tool you have outgrown, and the forty tabs you actually work in are the one thing that does not come. Bookmarks export in a tidy file; tab groups do not travel at all; and every list you do manage to export lands somewhere as four hundred loose links with the folders gone - which is worse than what you started with.
How it works
Out, across, and back in
Read the list you already have
A bookmarks HTML file, JSON, CSV, or a list of addresses you paste. Latr works out which from the file itself, keeps the titles that came with it, and turns each folder or group into a note you can search for later. Try it with your own list.
Or send it in a link
For a handful of tabs, a share link carries the list inside the link - no file, no upload, nothing stored anywhere. Paste it to yourself, or to somebody who does not have Latr at all.
What survives
The structure, because the structure is the thing
Four hundred links in one undifferentiated pile is not a migration, it is the same loss in a new place. Folders, lists and windows arrive as groups; page titles arrive as the names you knew them by rather than being rebuilt out of the address; and anything that is not an ordinary web page is left out and counted, so the number you are told is the number you got.
And out again
Four ways back out, none of them an account
A JSON backup that restores exactly, a CSV for a spreadsheet, a real bookmarks folder written into your browser, or a share link. Your list is yours on the way in and on the way out - which is the only honest test of whether a tool is holding it for you or holding it hostage.
Questions
Moving tabs, asked directly
How do I export all my open tabs to a file?
Keep the tabs in Latr first - Save all tabs keeps every one - then export a backup from Settings: a JSON file that restores your reminders and kept pages exactly. For other tools, the same data exports as a CSV spreadsheet, Markdown, or a bookmarks HTML file any browser can import. A saved window is not part of the backup; send it to yourself as a share link instead.
Can I move my open tabs to a new computer?
Yes, and without signing into anything. Two ways. Save the window in Latr and share it as one link - paste the link into a note to yourself, open it on the other machine where Latr is installed in Chrome or Edge, and the pages come back as a window. Or keep the tabs in Latr and export a backup file, which restores every reminder and kept page on the other machine. Tab group names and colours stay on the computer they were made on.
What file formats can Latr read?
A bookmarks HTML file (the format every browser exports), JSON, CSV, and a plain pasted list of addresses. Latr works out which one it is from the file rather than asking you, and if it cannot tell, it falls back to reading it as text - which cannot fail. Nothing is uploaded: the file is read in your browser.
Will it keep my groups and folders?
Yes, and that is the point of it. An export is not a bag of links - it is the folders, lists or windows you built, and flattening four hundred links into one pile is exactly the loss people arrive trying to undo. Every group in the file becomes a note on the pages that came from it, so you can find them again afterwards, and the notes and tags each link carried come with it. Everything lands in your library as kept pages - nothing is scheduled until you give a page a time.
What happens to links that are not web pages?
They are dropped, and counted. A bookmarks file can contain entries that are not ordinary http addresses, and a list you are about to click through is the wrong place for them. The import tells you how many it left out rather than quietly reporting a smaller number.
Can I get my list back out again?
At any time, in four ways: a JSON backup that restores exactly, a CSV you can sort in a spreadsheet, a real bookmarks folder in your browser, or a share link. A manager you cannot leave is one you should not have joined - and none of those need an account.
Does any of this touch a server?
No. Reading a file you picked needs no permission at all and no network request, which is why it is the one migration route that costs the install dialog nothing. A free install of Latr makes no network requests whatsoever.
Close the tab.
It will come back.
Free, no account, and nothing leaves your device. About ten seconds to install, and one keystroke to use.
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