How to Import Your Pocket Bookmarks in 2026 (Yes, Still)

Pocket died on July 8, 2025. Mozilla gave everyone until November 12 to download their data, then deleted all of it.

I know people who lost ten years of saved articles because they missed one email.

If you were smarter than that and grabbed your export file, good news: that file is a complete backup of your reading life, and getting it into a working app takes about two minutes.

First, find your export file

Search your Downloads folder for ril_export.html. That's the file Pocket generated. It looks like junk if you open it, but it's actually a standard bookmarks file with every URL, title, tag, and the date you saved it.

Can't find it? Check your email for "Your Pocket export is ready" — the download links are dead now, but the email confirms whether you ever downloaded it. Also check old computer backups. It's worth five minutes of digging.

Importing it into Marks

Full disclosure: I built Marks, so obviously I'm going to tell you to import it there. But the import genuinely handles the Pocket format properly, which most tools don't:

1. Sign up at getmarks.sh (free)
2. Go to Settings → Import bookmarks
3. Upload ril_export.html

Your tags come through as tags. Your save dates are preserved, so your library still reads chronologically instead of showing 4,000 articles all "saved today." Most importers throw that data away. It drove me nuts, which is why I made sure ours doesn't.

What if you missed the export deadline?

I'll be straight with you: the data is gone. Mozilla deleted it. No support ticket will bring it back.

What I'd do: export your browser bookmarks (Chrome, Safari, and Firefox all export to the same HTML format, and Marks imports those too) and treat it as a fresh start. Losing an archive hurts, but most of us never reread 95% of what we save anyway. The fix is picking a tool that makes exports easy, so this never happens again.

That's the actual lesson from Pocket: your bookmarks should live somewhere you can walk away from.