How to Save, Tag, and Organize LinkedIn Posts & People

LinkedIn lets you save posts. That’s it.

There’s no way to

• categorize them,
• tag them by topic,
• filter by author, or
• search across your saved collection.

For a casual user, that’s fine. For a content creator, marketer, or sales professional who spends real time on LinkedIn, it’s a dead end.

You save a post from a competitor.

Another one that inspired a campaign idea.

A few templates you want to revisit.

Then three weeks later, you’re scrolling through an unsorted list trying to find that one post about demand generation that had a great framing… and you can’t.

The inspiration is there.

What Is LibrarIn?

LibrarIn is a free Chrome extension that adds a tagging and categorization layer on top of LinkedIn’s feed.

It lets you save posts directly from your feed, assign them to custom categories, and access everything through a personal web library — searchable, filterable, and available anywhere.

It’s built by a LinkedIn creator, for LinkedIn creators. The design philosophy is simple: stay out of your way until you need it, then surface exactly what you’re looking for.

• Categories — not one flat list, but organized folders for different use cases (inspiration, research, sales targets, templates, etc.)
• Search — find a post by keyword without scrolling
• Author filters — pull up everything saved from a specific person
• Accessibility — access your library from any device, not just the one where you saved the post
• Export — your data should belong to you

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Who Actually Uses This (and Why)

I (Nick Malekos) build this for my own usage, create a swipe file of the best posts, and then expanded to people I really want to follow and keep up with their updates.

LinkedIn tends to hide people you might want to get updates from.

Content Creators Building a Swipe File

If you’re posting on LinkedIn regularly, you need a swipe file. A swipe file is a curated collection of posts, hooks, formats, and ideas that you reference when planning your own content.

The problem is building and maintaining one inside LinkedIn’s native interface is practically impossible. LibrarIn solves this by letting you tag posts with categories like “Inspiration,” “Best Hooks,” or “Post Formats” as you scroll — without leaving your feed.

By using the tagging categories filter, you can easily categorize posts to access later in an easier-to-access format.

When you’re planning next week’s content, you open your library, filter by category, and your curated examples are right there.

Marketers Doing Competitive Intelligence

Sales and marketing teams spend a lot of time tracking what competitors and key accounts are posting. LinkedIn’s algorithm doesn’t guarantee you’ll see every post from the people you’re watching.

In the following example, I have a category of SEO experts I follow and can easily filter to access them.

LibrarIn’s “People You Follow” feature lets you save specific profiles and view their posts in one place. You define the list:

• competitors,
• ICPs,
• key prospects,
• industry analysts.

This is particularly useful for sales teams who want to engage with a prospect’s content before reaching out — a warm outreach trigger that’s hard to execute without a system.

Job Seekers and Recruiters

LinkedIn is full of company culture posts, job advice from practitioners, and hiring signals. Organizing these into categories like “Target Companies” or “Interview Prep” gives job seekers a structured research system built from real, unfiltered signal.

How LibrarIn Works

Step 1: Install and Browse Normally

After installing the extension from the Chrome Web Store, you browse LinkedIn exactly as you normally would. LibrarIn adds a “Tag” button to posts in your feed — visible when you need it, unobtrusive otherwise.

Step 2: Tag Posts as You Scroll

Click the tag button on any post to assign it to one or more categories. You create the categories yourself, with custom color coding for quick visual identification. Multiple tags per post are supported — a post can be both “Inspiration” and “Competitor Content” simultaneously.

Step 3: Manage Through the Sidebar or Popup

The LibrarIn sidebar (accessible from within LinkedIn) or the extension popup shows your category list, post count per category, and quick navigation. You can create, rename, or delete categories at any time.

From the top bar popup you can also:

• Show or hide the sidebar
• Toggle tags on/off for a clean browsing experience
• Save a LinkedIn profile to your People You Follow list

Step 4: Access Your Library

Clicking “Open My Library” opens your full personal library — a clean, searchable dashboard with all your saved posts, category filters on the left, and a people filter that lets you view posts by specific authors.

Your library is accessible from any device through your personal library URL — you don’t need the extension installed to browse what you’ve saved.

Key Features at a Glance

Custom Categories and Tags Create unlimited categories with custom colors. Tag posts with a single click directly from the feed. Assign multiple categories to a single post.

Personal Web Library Access your organized posts from any device through your personal library URL. Search by keyword, filter by author or category, and browse your full collection in a clean interface.

Cloud Sync Your tags and saved posts sync to the cloud automatically. Your library is available anywhere, even without the extension installed.

People You Follow Save specific LinkedIn profiles to a curated list. Never miss content from the creators, competitors, or accounts that matter to you.

Data Portability Export your entire library to CSV. Import posts in bulk. Your data is yours — no lock-in.

Privacy First No LinkedIn credentials collected. No browsing history tracked. No third-party analytics sharing.

What Makes This Different from LinkedIn’s Native Save

Feature	LinkedIn Native	LibrarIn
Save posts	✅	✅
Custom categories	❌	✅
Search saved posts	❌	✅
Filter by author	❌	✅
Access on any device	❌	✅
Export to CSV	❌	✅
Track specific people	❌	✅

A Note on the “People You Follow” Feature

This is one of the most underrated parts of LibrarIn, and worth expanding on for marketers specifically.

LinkedIn’s feed is an algorithm. It decides what you see, and it doesn’t necessarily surface content from the people you most want to track. If you’re doing account-based marketing, tracking a set of key prospects or partners, or building a competitive intelligence workflow — you cannot rely on the feed to surface what you need.

LibrarIn’s profile saving feature gives you a manual override. You add someone to your list, and their content shows up in your “People You Follow” view — regardless of what the algorithm decided to show you that day.

For a sales team, this is effectively a lightweight prospect monitoring system built on top of LinkedIn’s existing data — without any scraping, without violating terms of service, and without paying for a separate tool.

Is LibrarIn Free?

Yes. LibrarIn is completely free. There are no subscription tiers, no post limits, no category limits. You install it, you use it, and it doesn’t ask you for a credit card.

It’s available on the Chrome Web Store with a 5.0 rating.

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How to Get Started

1. Install LibrarIn from the Chrome Web Store: LibrarIn on Chrome Web Store
2. Open LinkedIn and browse your feed
3. Click the “Tag” button on any post you want to save
4. Create your first category (suggestions: Inspiration, Competitors, Research, My Best Posts)
5. Open your library and start building your collection

Final Thoughts

LinkedIn is one of the best sources of real-world B2B intelligence available — practitioner insights, market signals, competitor positioning, content formats that are actually working. But the platform’s native tooling for capturing and organizing that information is minimal.

LibrarIn doesn’t replace LinkedIn. It adds the organizational layer that LinkedIn never built for creators and marketers who take the platform seriously.

If you’re posting on LinkedIn regularly, doing any kind of competitive or market research there, or managing a sales prospecting workflow that involves social selling — a properly organized content library pays for itself in saved time and recovered ideas almost immediately.

LibrarIn is not affiliated with or endorsed by LinkedIn.