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Three things to get you started with Xenk.

Save a page

From any app:

1. Copy the page’s address.
2. Press ⌥⇧B. The search bar opens with the address already in it.
3. Press Return to save it.

You can find the page by its title straight away. Xenk reads it in the background, and then finds it by what it’s about too. YouTube videos, GitHub repos and PDFs work as well.

To save the page you’re on in one click, add the Xenk extension to your browser. Open Xenk’s Settings, and under Integration:

• Safari: click Install in Safari… and turn on Xenk in Safari’s Extensions settings. The extension comes with Xenk, so there’s nothing else to download.
• Chrome: click Xenk Chrome Helper to add it from the Chrome Web Store, then click Connect Chrome…. Bookmarks you add in Chrome are then saved to Xenk too.

Then click the Xenk button in the browser’s toolbar. It shows a green ✓ when the page is saved.

A note on how the extensions work:

• Chrome: each bookmark you add in Chrome is saved to Xenk too. To send the ones you already have, right-click the Xenk button in Chrome’s toolbar and choose Send All Bookmarks. To stop saving new bookmarks, untick Save when bookmark added in the same menu. Removing a bookmark in Chrome doesn’t remove it from Xenk.
• Safari: bookmarks you add in Safari aren’t sent to Xenk; only the button saves pages. To bring them over, import your bookmarks again. Bookmarks Xenk already has are skipped.

Import your bookmarks

First, export your bookmarks from your browser:

• Safari: choose File > Export Browsing Data to File, and export Bookmarks.
• Chrome: open the Bookmark Manager (⌥⌘B), click ⋮ at the top right and choose Export bookmarks.

Then, in Xenk:

1. Click the Xenk icon in the menu bar and choose Import Bookmarks…
2. Click Choose File… and select the HTML or ZIP file you exported.

Your bookmarks can be found by name right away. Xenk then reads each page in the background, which can take a while for a large library; choose Indexing Queue from the same menu to follow along. Bookmarks you already have are skipped, so importing the same file again is safe.

Find a page by what you remember

1. Press ⌥⇧B from any app.
2. Describe the page: what it was about or what you wanted it for, like “compare AI model prices” or “that sourdough guide”. A name or a website works too.
3. Use the arrow keys to pick a result and press Return to open it.

Not finding it? Open Xenk’s Settings, and under Search accuracy:

• Language model picks the model that reads your pages. Apple Intelligence works well and runs on your Mac. You can also use Ollama, or a cloud model from OpenAI or Anthropic.
• Match strictness moves toward More results to show looser matches, or toward Better matches to show only close ones.

You can change the shortcut in Settings, under General. To see everything you’ve saved, choose Browse Bookmarks from the Xenk icon in the menu bar.