Horse Browser doesn't talk to a cloud. Everything stays on the machine you're using, which is the privacy story but also the inconvenience: a Trail you opened on your laptop won't appear on your desktop on its own.
Sync is on the roadmap, designed so it doesn't compromise the privacy story. No date yet. In the meantime, this is the workaround.
If you haven't installed Horse on the second machine yet, install Horse on multiple devices covers that part.
Export from machine A
-
Menu > File > Copy Trail as Markdown copies the current Trail to your clipboard as Markdown text.
Copy Trail as Markdown feature in Horse Browser -
To export several Trails at once: hold ⌘ (Mac) or Ctrl (Win/Linux), click each Trail, then right-click for the bulk-copy option.
Get the Markdown to machine B
Whatever way you'd usually move a chunk of text:
- Save the Markdown as a
.mdfile and put it on Drive/Dropbox/iCloud. - Paste it into Apple Notes if your Notes are synced across machines.
- Email it to yourself.
Import on machine B
-
Menu > File > Import Trails opens the Import Editor.
-
Paste the Markdown into the left column. A preview appears on the right.
Import Editor in Horse Browser -
Click Import. The Trail lands at the top of the sidebar, ready to rename or rearrange.
More
The import/export guide covers the same Markdown format from a different angle (moving links in and out of Notion, Apple Notes, Obsidian).
