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. Give your team read access — it doesn't need to be public

Your bookmarks live in a spreadsheet you control. The bar reads it through your browser's existing Google session, so Google's own sharing permissions are respected — each teammate sees the sheet only if their Google account already has access. You do not have to make the sheet public. Any of these work:

  • Keep it restricted to your team (recommended) — share the Google Sheet with specific people, or with everyone in your Google Workspace organization, exactly as you normally would. Because the bar uses each person's own Google sign-in, it loads for the people you've granted access and no one else.
  • "Anyone with the link → Viewer" — handy if some teammates aren't on Google Workspace. The sheet stays unlisted (not searchable or indexed — only people with the link can open it) and no sign-in is required.
  • Published CSV — publish the spreadsheet (or a tab) as a CSV for a plain, no-sign-in link.

Whichever you choose, the bar only ever needs read access — it can display your links but can never edit your spreadsheet. If someone tries to view a sheet they don't have access to (or they're signed out of Google), it simply won't load for them.

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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