How to access your bookmarks on Windows Phone 7
As I noted in my post with tips on moving from an iPhone to a new Windows Phone 7, I also touched on how to sync several files, including the backing up of my iPhone's browser bookmarks. I failed to note how I access my favourites on Windows Phone 7, which I do via the power of Windows Live. (There are different ways to sync files on your phone, depending on the type of file and where it's stored. To learn more, take a look at the article on syncing files with your phone.)
One easy way I've found to use the list of my favourites (sorry, in the US it's favorites ;) I use OneNote Mobile. As I noted previously, OneNote lets you take notes and sync notebooks with your new Windows Phone 7 and integrates easily with Windows Live SkyDrive.
Internet Explorer Favorites are Internet bookmarks, simply web URLs (such as https://blogs.msdn.com/mthree) along with the friendly names for them ("M3's blog"). Surprisingly, I found that I had relatively few iPhone bookmarks saved on my device, likely a testament to how I used the phone: often, I linked to sites from an email or app. As noted in my previous post, since Apple's iOS v3 release, bookmarks can be backed up in iTunes.
When you connect your iPhone to iTunes, you'll see an option to "Sync bookmarks with Internet Explorer". This will enable iTunes to save your bookmarks and have them appear in your IE Favorites list.
Now, with my bookmarks all loaded into IE's Favorites, I exported my favorites from IE as noted in https://support.microsoft.com/kb/211089 - you can select which folder to export (if you have many, as I do) or just export them all.
Once I exported the Favorites file (as "bookmarks.htm"), I opened this file in IE. Using cursor I selected the bookmarks displayed in the browser window that I wanted to reference on my phone. I then copied and pasted the selection into a new OneNote document right in Windows Live (I use Office 2007 at home -- shame on me -- and Office 2010 at the office, which with OneNote 2010 can be linked directly with Windows Live -- very slick).
You can also use the quick and dirty method by copy and pasting the Favourites directly into an email and send it to yourself (a tip I use from time to time to remind myself of other important items ;).
Click here to learn more about using Favorites and history in Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Phone 7.
Additional resources
- For more info about saving Office documents to Windows Live SkyDrive, see Save a document to Windows Live from Office 2010 on the Microsoft Office website.
- For more info about getting started and using OneNote Web App, see Introduction to OneNote Web App on the Microsoft Office website.
- For information about syncing notes between your phone and SkyDrive, see Use Microsoft OneNote Mobile.
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Comments
- Anonymous
November 29, 2010
there should be an easier way to synchronize your bookmarks with your phone and across all your sevices.