A bookmark manager you will actually open
Browser bookmarks are where links go to die. A bookmark manager is supposed to fix that, and most of them make it worse by adding tags, nesting, and a tree you have to maintain. ceevo is the small version.
A good bookmark manager does three things: saves a link in a second from anywhere, puts it somewhere you will look again, and lets you hand a set of links to someone else. ceevo does those three and stops.
- Saving
- One click, but only in that browser.
- Paste a link or write a note on the web. Share to ceevo from any app on your phone.
- Organising
- Nested folders that nobody prunes.
- One level of folders you name yourself. Flat on purpose.
- Look
- Titles only, often the wrong ones.
- Title, description, preview image, and favicon pulled in for you.
- Across devices
- Only if you use the same browser everywhere.
- Web app. Same folders on a work laptop and a personal phone.
- Sharing
- Export an HTML file.
- Any folder becomes a public page under your name with one switch.
- Notes
- None.
- Notes are first-class: a note lives next to the links in the same folder.
Why browser bookmarks fail
They live in one browser. They show the page title the site chose, which is often wrong. They nest, and nesting means you build a tree once and never touch it again. And there is no way to give someone a folder except exporting a file that looks like 1999.
What ceevo does about it
Saving pulls in the real title, a description, and a preview, so a folder looks like a list of things rather than a list of tab names.
Folders are one level deep. That sounds like a limitation and it is the whole design. Ten folders you can see are worth more than fifty you have to navigate.
Any folder can be public. It becomes a page at ceevo.me/you/folder-name that anyone can open without an account. That replaces the HTML export, the pasted list in a chat, and the shared doc that goes stale.
Notes are items too. Not every good thing has a URL.
What ceevo is not
Not a reading app, not an archive, not a tagging system, not a browser extension yet. If you need those, the comparison pages below will point you to tools that have them.
Questions
- Is ceevo free?
- Yes. Free today, and anything you save stays yours if that ever changes.
- Can I import my browser bookmarks?
- Not yet. Most people find that a fresh start with the twenty links they actually use is better than importing five hundred they do not.
- Does it work on my phone?
- Yes. Open it in the browser, and share links to ceevo from any app.