Import a list of links

Have your links as plain text? A list exported from a tab saver, notes, a spreadsheet column, an email? Text List imports them in one go: paste the text or upload a .txt file.

What a Text List can look like

One link per line. A title is optional and can sit before or after the link:

• https://example.com | Example or https://example.com Example
• Example - https://example.com
• Markdown links: [Example](https://example.com)
• Bullets and numbering at the start of a line are fine.
• A line with only a link uses the link as its title.

Lines without an http or https link are skipped, so stray notes in the text do no harm.

Blocks and names

A blank line starts a new block. A text line at the top of a block, with no link in it, names that block (# Trip and Trip: work too). This list makes two blocks, “Lisbon trip” and “Reading list”:

Lisbon trip
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/portugal/lisbon | Lisbon travel guide
https://www.timeout.com/lisbon | Time Out Lisbon

Reading list
- [How to do great work](https://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html)
- Farnam Street - https://fs.blog
https://www.smashingmagazine.com

Import it

1. 1

   Open Import / Export

   Click Import / Export at the bottom of the sidebar.

2. 2

   Choose Text List

   Upload a .txt file, or paste your links into the box.

3. 3

   Check the preview and import

   LinkVolv shows how many links it found in each block. Click Import.

What you get

• In the browser extension, each block becomes a saved session in Saved Tabs, ready to restore as a window of tabs.
• In the web and desktop apps, which have no saved sessions, each block becomes a folder of bookmarks.
• A block with no name is called “Imported tabs” (or “Imported links” as a folder).

Coming from another app

Most tab savers can export your saved tabs as text. A few examples:

• OneTab: open Export / Import URLs, copy the whole list and paste it. Its groups are already separated by blank lines, so each one becomes its own session.
• Session Buddy: export a session as a plain list of links, then paste it.
• Anything else: if you can copy the links, one per line, Text List can read them.

Limits

An import always brings everything in, even past the Free limits (100 saved tabs, 1,000 bookmarks). Only new saves after that need Plus.