KeepFinding

For people who read later with Omnivore

Moving from Omnivore? Bring your saved articles to KeepFinding

Omnivore's hosted app closed in November 2024, but its export kept everything you saved as JSON files. Bring them here and KeepFinding reads them as they are: what you had not read yet and what you archived keep their place, with your labels, ready to search, sort into lists and come back to.

Import your Omnivore exportSee the steps

What comes across

Find the files in your Omnivore export

Unzip the export you downloaded from Omnivore (or from your own Omnivore server). Next to the content and highlights folders are one or more files named like metadata_0_to_100.json. Each one lists a batch of articles with their title, labels, state and the date you saved them.

Import each metadata file on its own, one after the other. The saved page copies in content and your highlights are not read, and items with no web link, such as uploaded PDFs, are skipped.

A file can hold up to 5 MB and 5,000 links. An account keeps up to 3,000 links, archive included, and a trial library without an account keeps 80. Links already in your library are skipped, so importing the same file twice adds nothing.

Import it

New to KeepFinding

  1. Choose Import your Omnivore export on this page and create your account.

  2. On the welcome screen, next to Or a whole bookmarks file, choose your first metadata .json. The links go in straight away. Add the other metadata files from Settings, under Your data.

  3. Pick a few topics you want more of, or choose Skip for now. For covers, open Settings and, under Your data, choose Fill them in.

Already using KeepFinding

  1. Choose Import your Omnivore export on this page, which opens Settings for you. In the app, Settings is at the foot of the side menu (Menu, top left, opens it) and, signed in, in your account menu at the top right.

  2. Under Your data, choose a metadata .json. KeepFinding shows what it found, such as "100 links · read as Omnivore export", before anything is added.

  3. Choose the Import button, then repeat with the next metadata file. KeepFinding then reads each page for its cover. You can close Settings part-way; what is left is offered again next time.

Try it first, without an account

Save any link on Home and KeepFinding starts a trial library in this browser. Settings then shows Your data, which takes your Omnivore files up to 80 links. Create your account later and the trial library comes with you.

What you get here

Lists you describe. Write what a list should hold, like "podcasts under 20 minutes" or "youtube videos i never opened". It becomes a row on Home with a page of its own, and the assistant handles the prompts a rule cannot.

Suggestions from what you keep. Name topics you want more of and KeepFinding suggests links for them next to your own, marked Suggested for you.

A reader that remembers. Articles open in a reader where you can highlight passages, and KeepFinding remembers where you stopped.

Save from anywhere. The Save to KeepFinding extension for Chrome saves the page you are on, a link or the links in a selection. KeepFinding also installs as an app from your browser, and on Android it then appears in the share sheet.

Coming from somewhere else?

The same import reads Pocket CSV exports, Raindrop.io exports, Instapaper exports, bookmarks exported from Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge (.html), any CSV with a column of links, and a plain list of links.

Imported a file twice by mistake? Links you already have are skipped, so nothing is added the second time.

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