Yahoo! Hacks

Import Existing Bookmarks into Yahoo! Bookmarks

To consolidate or build a Bookmark library quickly, you can import existing bookmarks from applications such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, or web applications that support OPML.

Yahoo! lets you store up to 1,000 bookmarks on their server, making them easily accessible from any computer. But transferring or creating 1,000 bookmarks by hand could take you a few months of concentrated effort and some vacation time from work. Even with one-click adding [Hack #28] , you’re looking at a few hours of solid clicking to even approach the limit.

Luckily, you can take advantage of the bookmarks you already have by importing them. Yahoo! provides some tools to make the process of importing bookmarks take a few minutes rather than a few months. Also, if you use other bookmark-like applications on the Web (such as Blogrolling, Bloglines, or Kinja) you can probably find a way to import them into Yahoo! Bookmarks by using exporting features those applications provide.

Each of these hacks relies on the Import Bookmarks feature that you’ll find at your Yahoo! Bookmarks (at http://bookmarks.yahoo.com, toward the top of the page).

Internet Explorer Bookmarks

Importing your Internet Explorer bookmarks is a fairly painless process, thanks to an ActiveX Control Yahoo! has put together that’s appropriately called Yahoo! Favorites Importer. To get to the import page, click Import Bookmarks from the Yahoo! Bookmarks page and choose the Internet Explorer for ...