# Export Safari to Markdown

Alto Index writes your Safari history a file a day, and your bookmarks, Reading List and tabs as Markdown, kept after Safari forgets them. 10 days free.

Convert browsing history into AI-accessible knowledge.

## What you get

- History: a file per day, a heading per hour, each visit with its time, title and link, and the day's topics
- Bookmarks: a file for Favorites and one for the Bookmarks Menu, a section per folder
- Reading List: a file per page, saying when you saved it and whether you read it, with Safari's preview
- With Safari unlocked: your open tabs a file per device, Tab Groups, Recently Closed, downloads and the Privacy Report a file a month, Top Sites, each site's settings, and on macOS 27 the pages you asked Safari to watch
- A day's file stays after Safari forgets that day

## Where the files go

```
alto-index/safari-history/2026-09-14.md
alto-index/safari-bookmarks/Favorites.md
alto-index/safari-reading-list/
alto-index/safari-tabs/
```

## What you choose

- Untick a site to take its visits out of every day, or a kind to leave it out
- Includes, in Options…: Page Snippets (macOS 27), Topics and Icons are on; Page Pictures, Page Text and CSV are off until you tick them
- CSV tables of your history, bookmarks, Reading List and downloads, beside the Markdown
- Tabs, Tab Groups and Page Pictures need Safari's data folder connected as well

## Left out

- Private windows
- Page Text fetches bookmark and Reading List pages only, never your history, and without your cookies

## Free and paid

The newest 10 days of history are free, with every bookmark and the Reading List. Then one purchase unlocks all of Safari: on its own, as one of any three apps, or with all of them. Either Safari purchase you made before unlocks it too. See [pricing](/pricing).

## With Claude

`/altoindex:safari` in the [Claude plugin](/claude-plugin) browses your history and bookmarks, and the [MCP server](/mcp) lets Claude Desktop search them.

Source: https://altoindex.com/safari