Sorry about the delay on support for categories, and for the Xmarks / Firefox importer. This project has turned out to be a lot more involved than I had anticipated. Mozilla's ancient and weird export format is very difficult to work with. Stay tuned.

It's taking a bit longer than I expected to build the hierarchical categorization features, and thus also the Xmarks importer. It's looking unlikely that the release will come before Xmarks shuts down. Hang onto your export file just a bit longer; we're getting there.

Work on the categorization features is coming along. Hang in there, Xmarks users! And do go ahead and prepare your data export file now, before LogMeIn shuts Xmarks down forever on 5/1.

Working on Xmarks Import (And Something Else)

I did manage to get access to an Xmarks account, and I am going to try to get Xmarks import ready in time for that service's demise on May 1. In order to ensure that Xmarks users will find their data can be organized in a way they expect, I will also need to add a new feature to LinkLocker itself: a means of organizing links into categories. Adding a hierarchical categorization structure is probably good idea generally, and this situation with Xmarks provides ...

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Xmarks Is Dying; Help Me Build an Importer

Another venerable bookmarking service has bitten the dust. Xmarks will shut down at the end of April 2018, according to LogMeIn—which acquired LastPass in 2015, which had in turn acquired Xmarks in 2010. Who could have guessed that a company bought by a company that was bought by another company might someday go away?

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