Exporting Google Bookmarks Isn't Obvious

Today I spent a little bit of time trying to figure out something that should be much more obvious than it is for the end-user. All I wanted to do was to export my Google Bookmarks so I could share a section with someone very easily in a list format.

If you click on “Manage all…” as shown in the image above, you get the general bookmark management screen, but nowhere on that screen is there any type of wording that would suggest how to quickly export your bookmarks to a file.

Here’s where it become a challenge for me. I didn’t want to export all of my bookmarks, just a subset of them that I had created. I clicked on the subset I wanted and then went to the “Tools” drop-down control in the top-right of the screen. Nothing would activate. Couldn’t figure out why.

I found this page letting me know that I could quickly download my bookmarks by just going to this link (https://www.google.com/bookmarks/bookmarks.html) on my computer.

What I’ve discovered later was that if you click on a subset of your links, the “Tools” function is no longer available. If you just click on your main bookmarks as a whole the “Tools” function is available and a single-click allows you to export quickly.