# Import Bookmarks from CSV file

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**Created:** [February 3, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/import-bookmarks-from-csv-file/69376 "2022-02-03T19:46:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![JLR](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@JLR](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/JLR)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/import-bookmarks-from-csv-file/69376/1 "2022-02-03T19:46:11Z")

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HI, I am wanting to import a list of bookmarks (title, URL, tags, notes) from Omnifocus. I’ve exported from Omnifocus to a CSV file, and deleted the irrelevant columns, etc, but it doesn’t appear that DT3 can import such a file. Any thoughts?

TIA, Joe

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**Author:** ![chrillek](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/chrillek/32/29340_2.png) [@chrillek](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/chrillek)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 7:47pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/import-bookmarks-from-csv-file/69376/2 "2022-02-03T19:47:28Z")

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I’d script that, and there might already be a script available to do what you want.

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**Author:** ![BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/bluefrog/32/135_2.png) [@BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/BLUEFROG)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 7:53pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/import-bookmarks-from-csv-file/69376/3 "2022-02-03T19:53:54Z")

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Can you export as HTML from OmniFocus?

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**Author:** ![pete31](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/d26b3c/32.png) [@pete31](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/pete31)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 8:05pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/import-bookmarks-from-csv-file/69376/4 "2022-02-03T20:05:38Z")

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> [@JLR](#):
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> I am wanting to import a list of bookmarks

You could

- extract all URLs from the CSV
- create a text record in DEVONthink
- paste the URLs (separated by a new line)
- use this [script](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/importing-a-list-of-urls-as-bookmarks/59601/4) to create bookmarks in DEVONthink.

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**Author:** ![BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/bluefrog/32/135_2.png) [@BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/BLUEFROG)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/import-bookmarks-from-csv-file/69376/5 "2022-02-03T20:39:06Z")

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Or if they can export an HTML file, they may be able to use **File \> Import \> Bookmarks from HTML File**. 😃

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**Author:** ![pete31](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/d26b3c/32.png) [@pete31](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/pete31)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/import-bookmarks-from-csv-file/69376/6 "2022-02-03T20:51:09Z")

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OmniFocus can export as HTML but it seems it’s not the kind of HTML that DEVONthink expects.

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**Author:** ![BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/bluefrog/32/135_2.png) [@BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/BLUEFROG)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/import-bookmarks-from-csv-file/69376/7 "2022-02-03T20:57:01Z")

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No idea. I don’t run OmniFocus here at the moment.

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**Author:** ![cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/cgrunenberg/32/7172_2.png) [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 3:06pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/import-bookmarks-from-csv-file/69376/8 "2022-02-04T15:06:35Z")

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Any example file (both exported HTML and CSV files) would be appreciated.

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**Author:** ![pete31](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/d26b3c/32.png) [@pete31](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/pete31)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 3:02am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/import-bookmarks-from-csv-file/69376/9 "2022-02-06T03:02:59Z")

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[OmniFocus Export.zip](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/uploads/short-url/jHl3O4JN7dqTjtIu81wnktg32LQ.zip) (3.1 KB)

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**Author:** ![cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/cgrunenberg/32/7172_2.png) [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 10:05am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/import-bookmarks-from-csv-file/69376/10 "2022-02-08T10:05:06Z")

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Thank you! The HTML export is unfortunately useless, the links are just plain text. But the CSV export is usable by converting it to HTML in DEVONthink 😁

Afterwards all links can accessed e.g. via the _Document \> Links_ inspector (select all, copy them and then use _Data \> New from Clipboard_) or downloaded via _Scripts \> Download_.

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**Author:** ![chrillek](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/chrillek/32/29340_2.png) [@chrillek](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/chrillek)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 10:37am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/import-bookmarks-from-csv-file/69376/11 "2022-02-08T10:37:06Z")

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> [@cgrunenberg](#):
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> The HTML export is unfortunately useless

But they take a lot of care to style it and also use a deprecated DOCTYPE. Lovely.

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**Author:** ![cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/cgrunenberg/32/7172_2.png) [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 12:08pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/import-bookmarks-from-csv-file/69376/12 "2022-02-08T12:08:11Z")

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> [@cgrunenberg](#):
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> Afterwards all links can accessed e.g. via the _Document \> Links_ inspector

This inspector will support sheets in the next release too.

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**Author:** ![system](https://devontech-discourse.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/2X/4/4e6ff70c96be2eb307a274d890bba8d71ba671b3.png) [@system](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 12:08pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/import-bookmarks-from-csv-file/69376/13 "2025-02-07T12:08:17Z")

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