Dom: To be clear, does this mean there is no intention of adding a bookmarks bar to this product? You intend on using saved notes as a replacement to the feature?

Hello Nicholas Cernera,

We're still in beta so we're exploring possibilities and carefully listening to feedback. So nothing is set in stone and we still have to tackle bookmarks. They will be handled in beam. We just haven't decided how.

Dom: Is there any update on this? I absolutely love how easy it feels to capture information from the web with Beam, but I use a lot of internal tools for work and need to have an easy way to access them. I understand we can save a website, but that just saves it to notes for that day. I really need some kind of organizational system for bookmarks to use Beam effectively.

Austin: Hello Austin, we've added tab groups recently (and automatic tab grouping as you might have noticed but that's another topic).

You can create a tab group, simply name it and beam will save it or you. All you have to do next is search for it in the omnibox and re-open it when needed.

We might add an import or bookmarks saving them as tab group so you can also search and re-open them straight rom the omnibox.

Would it make sense for you?

Dom: Thanks for the advice. What you mentioned may technically work, but adds a fair amount of friction to the process. Lets say I have a number of tab groups to store various tools (separate groups for programming, internal tools, fun, research, and personal). Then when I go into a group to access one of the tools I have saved, then I want to create a tab that might be unrelated to this group. It will automatically add the new tab in that group, when really I want that group to be long-living bookmarks that are purposefully added and not frequently modified.

I think there is a purposeful difference between tab groups and bookmarks. I still think there should be a way to store bookmarks - for instance when you press CMD-S and save a page to your notes this should also prompt you if you want to store this page as a bookmark and ask folder etc for that. That way you have captured the metadata (notes, time, etc) for when you have saved that link, but there is always an easy way to find those useful links without needing to remember the day you saved the link or some phrase to search for it. Does this make sense? I'm actively trying to use Beam right now because it feels so pleasant, but the friction it adds with bookmarks might be enough for me to need to put it aside for now and come back to it in a bit to see if there are better ways to handle this. I really like the way the Arc browser handles bookmarks in a tree view on the side, something like this would make me use Beam over Arc long term.