Bookmarks
Bookmarks keep a private copy of the messages you want to find again, plus the web pages and passages you save. You can tag them, add notes, archive them and export them to Markdown or an Obsidian vault.
Bookmark a message
Section titled “Bookmark a message”- Long-press the message (in the web app, hold down the mouse button).
- Select Bookmark message. You’ll see “Message bookmarked”.
To remove the bookmark, long-press the message again and select Remove bookmark. On iPhone and Android, bookmarked messages show a small bookmark icon.
In the desktop app, hover over the message and click Save to bookmarks, or open More and choose Save to bookmarks. You remove desktop bookmarks in Saved.
You can’t bookmark replies in a thread, but you can bookmark the message the thread started from.
A bookmark keeps a private copy of the message: its text, sender, chat name and time, plus links to any attachments. If the original message is deleted or you leave the chat, the bookmark stays and shows “Original message no longer available”. DonutChat adds some tags automatically, such as link, media, code, quote, mention and long-text.
Save web pages and highlights
Section titled “Save web pages and highlights”On iPhone and Android, save pages from the in-app browser:
- Tap Bookmark in the toolbar to bookmark the whole page.
- Select text, tap the + button that appears, then tap Bookmark to save the passage as a highlight. See Highlight text.
In the desktop app, you can add a page by hand with Save a web page in Saved. The web app shows and manages web bookmarks but can’t create them.
Open your bookmarks
Section titled “Open your bookmarks”- iPhone, Android and the web app: select Bookmarks at the top of the Chats tab, or go to Profile > Tools & content > Bookmarks.
- Desktop: click Saved (see Saved on desktop).
Bookmarks has two tabs, Messages and Web. On the Web tab, each card collects everything you saved from one page: up to 3 highlights, or “Saved page” if you bookmarked the whole page, and a count such as “2 highlights, 1 bookmark”.
Articles you save in Discover are kept in Discover > Saved, not in Bookmarks. See Discover.
Search, sort and filter
Section titled “Search, sort and filter”- Search: select the search button and type in Search bookmarks…. Message bookmarks match on their text, sender, notes and tags. Web bookmarks match on highlighted text, page title, address, site, notes and tags.
- Sort: select Sort and choose Newest first or Oldest first.
- Filter: select a tag to show only bookmarks with that tag. The Web tab also lets you filter by site; All sites shows every site again.
Tags, notes and details
Section titled “Tags, notes and details”On iPhone, Android and the web app, select a bookmark to open its details. For the desktop app, see Saved on desktop.
- Message bookmarks show the sender, chat, text, photos and the original date. Go to Message opens the chat at that message.
- Web bookmarks show the page’s title, site and address, and list your Highlights, each with Copy highlight. On iPhone and Android, Open in Browser reopens the page in the in-app browser with your highlights; the web app opens the page in a new tab. View in Chat opens the message the link came from, when you saved the page from a link in a chat. Copy URL copies the address.
To add a tag, type in Add a tag… and select Add, or select a suggested tag. To remove one, select the × on the tag. Tags can use lowercase letters, numbers and single hyphens, up to 50 bytes; spaces become hyphens and capital letters become lowercase.
To add notes, type in Add personal notes… and select Save. Notes are private to you and can be up to 5,000 characters. They’re also saved when you leave the screen.
The top bar has Share, Archive and Delete. For a web bookmark, these apply to everything you saved from that page. Deleting a bookmark can’t be undone.
Select several bookmarks
Section titled “Select several bookmarks”On iPhone, Android and the web app:
- Long-press a bookmark (in the web app, hold down the mouse button) to start selecting, then select more. Select all selects every bookmark loaded in the list.
- Choose Archive, Export or Re-tag.
With Re-tag, type a tag name, then select Add Tag or Remove Tag to change it on every selected bookmark.
Export to Markdown or Obsidian
Section titled “Export to Markdown or Obsidian”On iPhone, Android and the web app:
- Select the bookmarks you want to export, then select Export.
- Choose a format:
- Obsidian Vault: a ZIP of .md files with YAML frontmatter and wikilinks. Inside a “DonutChat Bookmarks” folder, each message bookmark and each web page gets its own note with its tags, plus an index note that links to them.
- Markdown: a single .md file with your message bookmarks grouped by tag, followed by web pages with their highlights and tags.
- On iPhone and Android, use the share sheet to save or send the file. The web app downloads it.
Only the bookmarks you select are exported.
Archive, restore and delete
Section titled “Archive, restore and delete”On iPhone, Android and the web app:
- Archive: swipe a bookmark left, or select Archive in its details. For a message bookmark, you’ll see “Bookmark archived” with Undo. Archiving a web page asks you to confirm, because it archives everything you saved from that page.
- Open the archive: select Archive at the top of Bookmarks. It has the same Messages and Web tabs, plus its own search.
- Restore: in the archive, swipe a bookmark right.
- Delete permanently: in the archive, swipe a bookmark left and confirm. To empty the archive, select the trash button and confirm with Delete All.
Archived bookmarks stay in the archive until you delete them.
Saved on desktop
Section titled “Saved on desktop”In the desktop app, bookmarks live on the Saved page.
- Click Saved in the navigation rail, or press ⌘4 (Ctrl+4 on Linux).
- On the Bookmarks tab, choose a Source (Messages or Web pages) and a Collection (Saved or Archived).
- To narrow the list, search, enter a Tag or Site hostname, or turn on Oldest first, then click Apply filters.
Each bookmark has these actions:
- Open message or Open in browser
- Edit notes & tags: fill in Notes and Tags (comma separated), then click Save notes & tags. Notes can be up to 5,000 characters.
- Archive… or Restore…
- Delete permanently…
To add a web page, choose Web pages and Saved, then use Save a web page: enter the URL, add a Title and Selected text (optional) if you want, then click Save web bookmark.
The Files & links tab on the Saved page lists files and links shared in your chats; see Share files and find shared content.