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JimGrisham
Iron Contributor
Aug 06, 2020

Sharing bookmarks (favorites) with other users / synced profiles in Edge

{I haven't seen this discussed yet; apologies if this duplicates an existing thread}

 

It occurred to me this morning that it would be quite nice to be able to share a bookmark folder (and its contents) with another user who has enabled profile syncing in the new chromium-based Edge browser.

 

Example use case / user story:

  1. I create a new folder in 'Favorites' and add a few bookmarks / favorites to that folder.
  2. On the 'Manage Favorites' screen, I right-click on the folder from step 1 and select 'Sharing...' from the contextual menu.
  3. Using an interface similar to that in OneDrive or other Office applications, I add a user's e-mail address to send an invitation, and choose if they should have read-only or read-write access.
    1. e.g. I enter the e-mail address associated with my wife's Microsoft account
  4. The invited user gets a notification and/or e-mail message, and upon accepting, my new shared folder shows up in their Favorites hierarchy.
    1. e.g. Now my wife can see the Favorites I have added to that folder
  5. Any further Favorites or subfolders added to a read/write shared folder appear automatically to any synced users Favorites lists

 

In addition to sharing Favorites with different people or teams, those (like me) using multiple synced Edge profiles on the same computer for different purposes could share a common folder between them. At the moment I add favorites to Azure and M365 config and doc pages to one profile, and then find myself having to copy them to other profiles.

(This is less of a concern for a single user logged into a single Windows user session -- unlike tabs which cannot be presently dragged between Edge windows belonging to different profiles, Favorites folders can thankfully be drag-copied to other Edge windows.)

 

I'm not sure if any other browser vendor is currently doing any/all of this, so it may be a way for Edge to stand out in the field. Even if current back-end infrastructure can't support this, perhaps discussing it now might enable it to be feasible several releases down the road.

 

Finally, I realize that in some cases it would make more sense for users to manually store links on a SharePoint page or in a OneNote notebook, but for small teams or families, and considering all of the UX work going into favorite management inside the browser, a purely (from the user's perspective) browser-based solution seems to have significant value.

 

 - Jim

 

P.S. Unrelated, and while I'm sure it's in the docs somewhere, the "Start a Conversation" page here has fields for "Labels" and "Add Tags", but does not explain the difference between the two nor their intended function (either on the page itself or in tooltips).

8 Replies

  • 31pl's avatar
    31pl
    Copper Contributor

    We really need shared and synced password and bookmark lists. I can give examples if needed. 

    Thank you very much! 

  • 31pl's avatar
    31pl
    Copper Contributor

    Hello,

     

    for 1-2 years now I've been waiting for this feature (shared bookmark lists) and this month I found this thread, which has not yet received enough attention, in my opinion. 


    For smaller businesses this could be very helpful and enhancing and working with Microsoft products would be even more worthy and effective. There are many freelancers out there and some employes manage some things on their own with their own private accounts, because otherwise work could not be done.

     

    It is great there are people like Oliver-Fish, who built an extension (Bookmark Llama) on his own. I'm sad I'm not able at the moment to built something like this. But it would be very helpful, like the others say, to have it built in natively in Microsoft edge browser.


    It is really nice to have the possibility to share somehow Favorites via Workspaces, but it is still a kind of a workaround. I think it could be implemented more seamlessly. I don't know about the security aspect of this, but I can imagine a solution built directly into Microsoft Edge without the necessity to open a workspace.


    To be able to share bookmarks and share SYNCED PASSWORD LISTS too, would be the next big step in human working environment and for other kind of cooperations and friendships. But more affordable, please, so everyone could use it.

     

    In hope and happy expectation,

    31pl

  • Oliver-fish's avatar
    Oliver-fish
    Copper Contributor
    It would be great to see this natively supported in the browser, I built a extension for edge that allows this until then https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/bookmark-llama/ipnohflnkaljegnpiepbfefnnodmgkmp
  • user0719's avatar
    user0719
    Brass Contributor
    if you want it, you could upvote this request: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/e2ce92de-92dd-ec11-a81b-000d3a03dba2
  • KenChong's avatar
    KenChong
    Iron Contributor

    Hi JimGrisham, you may want to post your idea to the new Microsoft Feedback Portal: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/forum/b8da43d5-ef1b-ec11-b6e7-0022481f8472

  • daniel2311's avatar
    daniel2311
    Brass Contributor
    there's team sync bookmark extension, though I can imagine there's tremendous advantage for edge to do this as a standard function. it basically create a network effect plus lock users in

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