How to import your Raindrop bookmarks into Moodmarks

Years of links in Raindrop, and a new place where you want them to live. Moving them over takes one file and about five minutes. Nothing gets retyped.

What you need

• Moodmarks on your iPhone.
• A computer with a browser, because Raindrop's export lives in its web app.

Step 1: export from Raindrop

1. Open app.raindrop.io in your browser and sign in.
2. Open the account menu in the top-left and choose Export.
3. Choose Bookmarks file (HTML). Raindrop downloads the file to your computer.

HTML is the standard bookmarks format every browser understands, and it's the one Moodmarks reads.

Step 2: get the file onto your iPhone

Any route works: AirDrop, an email to yourself, or saving it to iCloud Drive. What matters is that the file ends up somewhere the Files app can see.

Step 3: import into Moodmarks

1. Open Moodmarks. On the main screen, where all your boards are, tap the ⋯ menu at the top.
2. Choose Import / Export Bookmarks.
3. Under Duplicate Links, pick what happens to links you already have in Moodmarks: Skip leaves them alone, Merge adds the existing link to the imported board, Create Copy always makes a new one. If this is your first import, the choice doesn't matter much.
4. Tap Choose a Bookmarks File and pick the Raindrop file.

Moodmarks shows the progress while it works. When it finishes, you get a summary: Processed (added), Skipped (already there) and Failed (couldn't be imported).

How your collections arrive

Each Raindrop collection becomes a board with the same name. Links keep their titles and, when Raindrop recorded one, the date you saved them.

If you used nested collections, the links from each sub-collection go into the board of the collection above it. A "Design" collection with "Fonts" and "Colour" inside arrives as one "Design" board with all of it together.

Import everything, then keep only what belongs to a project

A full Raindrop archive is years of saving. Some of it is still useful, a lot of it isn't. After the import, go through board by board and ask one question per link: does this belong to something I'm working on? If yes, it stays in its project board. If not, let it go.

That's the difference with Moodmarks: a board is a project, not a drawer. From now on you won't need exports at all, because the share sheet sends each new link straight to the right board from any app. If you're still deciding whether to switch, we compared both apps in a Raindrop alternative built around projects.

Keep the HTML file somewhere safe, like iCloud Drive. It's your backup of everything you had in Raindrop.