How to organize bookmarks in Chrome

Three steps, with the tools Chrome already has. No extension, nothing to install. At the end your daily sites sit on one tidy bar, everything else lives in a few folders, and you can find any bookmark in seconds.

Updated November 2026 · 5 min read · Tested in Chrome on Windows, Mac shortcuts included

1Step 1: Put your daily sites on the bookmarks bar

The bookmarks bar is the row right under the address bar. If you don't see it, press Ctrl + Shift + B. On a Mac it's ⌘ + Shift + B. The same shortcut hides it again.

The bar stays hidden, or it is empty? See Chrome bookmarks bar not showing.

The bar is for the ten or so sites you open every day. Not for everything.

1. Open a site you use daily.
2. Click the star at the right end of the address bar, or press Ctrl + D.
3. In the small window that opens, choose Bookmarks bar as the folder and click Done.
4. Drag the bookmarks on the bar into the order you use them.

2Step 2: Sort the rest into a few folders

Everything that isn't a daily site goes into a folder. Keep it to five or six topics, for example Work, Home, Money and Travel.

1. Right-click an empty spot on the bookmarks bar and choose Add folder.
2. Give it a short name.
3. Drag bookmarks on the bar straight onto the folder.

A folder on the bar opens like a menu, so one click shows the whole topic.

Save a whole project at once

Planning something with lots of tabs? Open just those tabs in a new window, then press Ctrl + Shift + D (Mac: ⌘ + Shift + D). Chrome saves every tab in that window into one new folder.

3Step 3: Clean up in the Bookmark Manager

The Bookmark Manager shows all your bookmarks on one page. Open it with Ctrl + Shift + O. On a Mac it's ⌘ + Option + B. Your folders are on the left. What's inside is on the right.

Move bookmarks where they belong

Drag a bookmark onto a folder on the left. Or right-click it, choose Cut, open the right folder, right-click and choose Paste.

Sort a folder from A to Z

1. Click the folder on the left.
2. Click the three dots at the top right.
3. Choose Sort by name.

Folders come first, then everything from A to Z. Only the folder you selected changes.

Delete what you no longer need

Old links you'll never open again? Select one and press Delete. Deleted the wrong one? A note with Undo appears at the bottom left. Or press Ctrl + Z.

A quick clean-up once a month is enough to keep it this way.

Find any bookmark in seconds

Two quick ways:

• From the address bar. Type @bookmarks, press Tab, then type a word from the bookmark's name.
• In the Bookmark Manager. Use the search box at the top. It looks through web addresses too, so even a bookmark without a name turns up.

All shortcuts at a glance