How to import your bookmarks into Moodmarks (Raindrop, Instagram, Chrome)

You have links saved in three different apps and none of them talks to the others. Raindrop has the research, Instagram has the recipes you saved at midnight, Chrome has the tabs you bookmarked on your laptop. Moodmarks can take all three in, and it does it with files you export once and never think about again.

This guide covers each source in turn: first how to get your links out of the source app, then how to bring them into Moodmarks. At the end there is the other direction too, because data you cannot take out of an app is data you do not own.

Before you start

You need Moodmarks on your iPhone, and the export file sitting on that same iPhone — in Files, in an email, or downloaded from the source app. The import lives in one place regardless of where the file came from: open the Collections screen, tap the ⋯ menu at the top, and choose Import Bookmarks. Then pick the file.

That is the whole flow. The rest of this guide is about getting the file.

Raindrop → Moodmarks

Raindrop exports a standard bookmarks HTML file, which is exactly what Moodmarks reads.

Export from Raindrop. Open app.raindrop.io in a browser on your computer (the export lives on the web app, not in a mobile app). Open the account menu in the top-left, choose Export, then Bookmarks file (HTML). Raindrop generates the file and downloads it; if you organized your collection into nested collections, the folder structure comes along.

Import into Moodmarks. Get the file onto your iPhone — AirDrop it, email it to yourself, or save it to iCloud Drive. Then open the Collections screen in Moodmarks, tap the ⋯ menu, choose Import Bookmarks, and pick the file. Your Raindrop folders land as boards, and the links inside them keep their titles.

One note: do this before you close a Raindrop account. If Raindrop is your only copy and the export is the only copy of the export, you are one lost phone from losing ten years of links. Keep the HTML file in iCloud Drive or Dropbox when you are done.

Instagram → Moodmarks

Instagram's saved posts are the most locked-in bookmarks most people have: there is no export button next to them. There is a download of everything, which includes them.

Export from Instagram. Open Instagram, go to your profile, open the menu (☰), and choose Your activity → Download your information. Request a download of your data; when asked about the format, pick HTML rather than JSON — it is easier to read later if you ever need to. Instagram emails you a link when the file is ready, usually within a few hours for accounts of a normal size. The download arrives as a zip; the saved posts live inside it.

Import into Moodmarks. If your export came as HTML and includes saved posts as bookmark entries, move it to your iPhone and run the standard flow: Collections screen → ⋯ menu → Import Bookmarks → pick the file. If your data arrived as JSON, open it on your computer, copy the saved-post links into a plain list, and save that list through the share sheet or by pasting links into boards directly — a few dozen recipes take ten minutes this way, and you only ever do it once.

Either way, the point is the same: get the links out of Instagram's private drawer and into a place where the recipe next to the note next to the trip planning is one board.

Chrome → Moodmarks

Chrome is the easy one, because bookmarks were born as files.

Export from Chrome. On your computer, open Chrome and type chrome://bookmarks in the address bar, or go to the Bookmarks menu → Bookmark manager. Tap the ⋯ menu at the top-right of the manager and choose Export bookmarks. Chrome writes a standard HTML file — the same Netscape format browsers have traded since the nineties.

Import into Moodmarks. Send the file to your iPhone, then Collections screen → ⋯ menu → Import Bookmarks → pick the file. Chrome's bookmark folders arrive as boards, so the "Work", "Recipes" and "Read later" folders you kept there become boards with the same names. Sync the laptop bookmarks first if Chrome hasn't caught up yet, so the export contains everything.

The other direction: export from Moodmarks

Data you cannot leave is a trap, so Moodmarks goes both ways. Open the Collections screen, tap the ⋯ menu, and choose Export Bookmarks. You get a standard Netscape bookmarks HTML file — the same format Chrome, Safari and Firefox all import — so your boards and links can move to any browser, or back into Raindrop, whenever you want. No lock-in, no support ticket.

What to do with the mess you just imported

An import of a few hundred links is not an organized system; it is raw material. Give each board a pass and keep what you actually recognize — the same three-way sort we recommend for organizing Safari bookmarks: keep it, file it into a project board, or let it go.

And going forward, you do not need exports at all: the share sheet sends a link to the right board from any app, including Raindrop, Instagram and Chrome themselves.