Activity History

What it does

The History tab shows a chronological feed of every bookmark change in your browser: bookmarks added, deleted, edited, and moved. Events are grouped by day with the most recent at the top. You can filter by action type and restore deleted items directly from the timeline.

How to open it

1. Click the TrueBookmark icon to open Quick Find.
2. Click the clock icon in the popup header, or click "Open Full Search" and then the History tab in the Manager.

Event types

Filtering events

Filter buttons appear above the timeline. Click a filter to show only that type of event:

• All shows every event
• Added shows only new bookmarks/folders
• Moved shows only moved items (including reorders)
• Edited shows only title/URL changes
• Deleted shows only removals (useful for finding items to restore)

The event count updates to show how many events match the current filter.

Restoring deleted items

1. Filter the timeline to "Deleted" to find deleted items quickly.
2. Each deleted event has a "Restore" button on the right side.
3. Click Restore. TrueBookmark recreates the bookmark (or the entire folder tree if a folder was deleted) in its original location.
4. A toast notification confirms the restore, showing the destination folder.

What each event shows

Every event in the timeline displays:

• Action icon color-coded by type (green/red/amber/blue)
• Title of the bookmark or folder
• URL (for bookmarks)
• Folder path showing where the item lives
• Action label and timestamp (for example, "Added 1:06 PM")

Additional context appears for specific event types:

• Moved: shows the old folder path, or the old and new position if moved within the same folder
• Edited: shows the old title or old URL that was changed
• Folder badge: appears next to folder events to distinguish them from bookmarks

Loading more events

The timeline initially loads 100 events. If there are more, a "Load more events" button appears at the bottom. Each click loads another 100 events.

Rebuilding history

TrueBookmark can reconstruct "Added" events for bookmarks that existed before you installed the extension. This uses the dateAdded timestamp stored by Chrome on each bookmark.

1. Go to the History tab.
2. Hold Shift and click the Refresh button. It changes to "Rebuild History" while Shift is held.
3. TrueBookmark scans all current bookmarks and creates retroactive "Added" events based on their original creation dates.

Good to know

• History records all bookmark changes, whether you made them in TrueBookmark, Chrome's built-in bookmark manager, or any other extension. TrueBookmark listens to Chrome's bookmark events.
• Events are grouped by calendar day with a date header showing the day of the week, date, and event count for that day.
• The Restore button only appears on Deleted events that have snapshot data. Events from before TrueBookmark was installed may not have snapshots available for restore.
• When a folder is deleted, the Restore button recreates the entire folder tree including all bookmarks and subfolders that were inside it.

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