Moving from Pocket to Trezio
Pocket is gone. Here is exactly what transfers when you bring your saves into Trezio, what does not, and why the honest answer matters more than the reassuring one.
Pocket shutting down left a lot of people with an export file and no obvious home for it. If you are holding one of those files, this is what actually happens when you bring it into Trezio — including the parts that do not survive the trip.
Get your file out of Pocket first
Pocket stopped exporting in November 2025, so the file you already have is the one you will work with. Most people who exported in 2025 got a zip file by email with a CSV inside: one row per save, with its title, address, the date you saved it and your tags. Older exports are a single HTML file instead. Keep whichever you have somewhere safe before you do anything else. It is the only copy, and no import tool can recover what an export did not include.
What transfers
Trezio's importer reads both of Pocket's formats directly: the CSV from the final export, including its pipe-separated tags and save dates, and the older HTML list, which it has a dedicated path for because Pocket and Instapaper structured those exports as lists rather than the nested format browsers use.
- Your links — every URL, with its title.
- The date you saved each link, from the CSV export.
- Your structure, from an older HTML export — its groupings become real folders. (The CSV export has no folders, because Pocket never had them.)
- Your tags — Pocket tags become Trezio charms, which behave more like filters than folders. One item can carry as many as it needs.
Re-importing the same file twice will not duplicate your library. Trezio canonicalises each URL before comparing, so a link saved with a trailing slash and the same link without one are recognised as the same thing.
What does not transfer
This is the part most migration guides skip, so here it is plainly: Trezio's importer brings across links, folders and tags. It does not ingest the article text Pocket archived for you, and it does not bring your highlights.
If an article you saved has since gone offline, importing the link into any tool will not bring the writing back. Only the archive that stored the text can do that, and an export file is not that archive.
If preserving article bodies is your priority, a read-it-later tool that stores full copies is a better fit than a bookmark and knowledge manager, and you should choose on that basis rather than on ours.
Doing the import
Unzip the export first if it came as a zip. Then, in Trezio, go to Settings, then Import, and drag the CSV (or the HTML file) in or browse for it. Import is available on every plan, including the free one. The free plan holds 100 items, though, so a larger Pocket library stops importing at that point; Pro has no limit.
The same importer also reads browser bookmark files, Raindrop and Instapaper exports, and Trezio's own JSON backup format, which is what you would use to restore a full Trezio export later.
What to do in the first ten minutes after
A migrated library arrives with someone else's organising decisions baked in. Rather than reorganising all of it, do this instead:
- Search for something you know you saved. This is the fastest way to confirm the import worked and to see that search reads titles, descriptions and the full text of your notes, not just titles.
- Star the handful you actually reach for. Favourites are a much smaller, more useful set than folders.
- Set one reminder. Pick something you have been meaning to read for months and schedule an email nudge. It is the feature people find last and wish they had found first.
Leave the rest alone for a while. A library you inherited from another tool will tell you which parts you actually use within a couple of weeks, and reorganising before then is guesswork.