Why We Won't Import Your Old Bookmarks

If you've ever tried a new bookmarking app, you know the first thing you look for: "Can I import my bookmarks?" It's a reasonable expectation. Most tools let you import everything from wherever you were before. CSV files, browser bookmarks, export files from other apps. One click and you're done.

We don't offer this. At least not yet. And it's not because we haven't thought about it.

The Graveyard of Good Intentions

I know what it's like to accumulate bookmarks. As the founder of Edicek, I lived through exactly what our users are trying to escape. I used a bookmarking app where I'd saved around 3,000 links over three years. Plus nearly 1,500 screenshots and videos I'd collected over the past year sitting in my camera roll. All of it was "saved for later." All of it supposedly valuable.

Eventually, I realized that app wasn't serving me anymore. It was just a place where things went to die. I never searched for anything I saved. Nothing became part of my daily workflow. It was a black box I kept feeding but never opened. That's when I started building an early version of Edicek for myself.

When I had that first version working, I faced a choice. Should I build an import function? Should I dump all 3,000 bookmarks into my new tool? I decided to look at what I'd actually saved first. It took me a few weeks. Every day, I tried to go through some of my old bookmarks. Some days I did more, some days nothing. Most of it—around 80%—was no longer relevant. Articles about tools that didn't exist anymore. Screenshots of things I'd already dealt with. Links to resources I never used.

The remaining 20% was different. Those items still mattered. But even then, I had to ask myself: Why did I save this? What was I thinking when I bookmarked it? What did I plan to do with it? For each one, I wrote a quick note and saved it to Edicek. It wasn't fast, but for the first time in three years, I actually had a knowledge base I could work with.

Why Context Changes Everything

Edicek is built on one core idea: context is everything. When you save something, we ask you why. That simple question transforms a link from a meaningless URL into a piece of knowledge tied to your intent, your goals, your thinking at that moment.

If we built an import feature, you could dump 3,000 bookmarks into Edicek in seconds. You'd have 3,000 items sitting there. But without context—without knowing why you saved each one—Edicek can't help you. It becomes just another pile of stuff. The AI doesn't know which restaurant you saved for your anniversary and which one you saved for a quick lunch near the office. It doesn't know which article was about a project you're actively working on and which was just mildly interesting three years ago.

You'd start getting irrelevant search results. The AI Chat would surface things that don't matter anymore. It ruins the product experience. It prevents Edicek from doing what it's designed to do: help you find exactly what you need, when you need it.

Import without context defeats the entire purpose of Edicek. You'd be moving the mess from one place to another. And we're not interested in helping you do that.

Starting Fresh Is a Feature

I know it sounds counterintuitive. People expect to bring their history with them. But here's the thing: starting fresh is a feature, not a limitation.

Think of it like a fast. Every now and then, your body needs a reset to clear itself out. The same is true for your knowledge. Starting fresh with Edicek is that reset. It's a clean break. A milestone. You know exactly when you started saving to Edicek. You know that everything in it has context. You know you can search for anything and find it in one place—from this point forward.

It's a mental relief. Like the beginning of a new year, but for your knowledge base.

When you start using Edicek, you're not carrying baggage from the past. You're not importing things you saved five years ago that no longer matter. Every single item in your knowledge base is something you consciously chose to save, with context, because it was relevant when you saved it. Your knowledge base grows with you, not against you.

If you really want to bring something from your old bookmarks, you can. Open them. Look at them. Ask yourself if they still matter. If they do, save them to Edicek with a note about why. That process might feel slow, but it's also what makes Edicek work.

Starting fresh might feel uncomfortable at first. But that discomfort is exactly what makes Edicek work. It forces you to be intentional. To think about what actually matters. To build a knowledge base that serves you, not one that buries you.

That's the choice we made when building Edicek. And it's the same choice you'll make when you start using it.