Getting Started

Use a Google Sheet with the bar

Point the bar at a spreadsheet your team already controls — share it, paste one link, then manage every shared bookmark by editing the sheet.

1. Share the sheet as view-only

Your bookmarks live in a spreadsheet you control, so the first step is making it readable. You have two options:

  • Google Sheet — set sharing to "anyone with the link can view." The bar only ever needs read access.
  • Published CSV — publish the spreadsheet (or a tab) as a CSV so it has a public link.

Because access is read-only, no one needs an account to see the links, and the bar can never change your sheet.

2. Copy the link

Grab the share link for the Google Sheet, or the published CSV URL. That single link is everything the bar needs.

3. Paste it into the bar

  1. Open the bar's settings.
  2. Add a new source and paste the link you copied.
  3. Save. The bar reads the sheet and adds it as a source.

Each sheet you add becomes its own button in the bar. The sheet's name, its tabs, and any tag filters are discovered automatically — you only paste the link.

4. Manage links by editing the sheet

From here on, the sheet is the database. There's no separate list to maintain inside the extension:

  • Add a bookmark by adding a row with its name and URL.
  • Edit a bookmark by changing the row.
  • Remove a bookmark by deleting the row.
  • Group links by putting them on different sheet tabs — each tab becomes its own group in the bar.
  • Filter by adding a tag column — those values become filter chips in the bar.

See Add & organize shared bookmarks for the full walkthrough.

5. Keep the bar in sync

Once you save a change in the sheet, every teammate's bar picks it up on the next refresh. You can set a schedule so updates spread automatically — see Set an auto-refresh schedule.

6. Add more sheets (optional)

You can point the bar at more than one sheet. Add as many as you like — each appears as its own button, so different teams or projects can keep their own lists side by side.

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