How to save add to homescreen & notes before update

When you hookup your iPad to iTunes, after the backup is complete, go to your notes and bookmarks and they are still there, you should be ok to update your iPad. Even if you have a problem updating the iPad and have to do a restore your notes and bookmark will still be there. Just pick the option to restore from backup.

I had a problem during the update on my iPad to where I had to do a restore. I restored from my backup and everything (including home screen bookmark and notes) transferred to the iPad.

a brody wrote:
Unfortunately I have 100+ home screen bookmarks, since navigating the Safari bookmarks is so much more difficult on the iPad. That's why I need some way to back them up before I upgrade. I wish there was some way to do this.

Performing a backup is a part of the upgrade process, and those "home page bookmarks" are saved right along with your settings and other data; they will reappear right along with everything else.
If you're asking whether they can be sync'ed in some manner, and make it into iTunes and onto your system in that way, then no, I don't think you can do that.

You want a guarantee? Then back up your iPad, early and often. The process appears to be a lot quicker, and much less painful, in the new OS.

You will eventually have to get your brain around the idea that the iPad simply is not a "MacBook Lite"; it has no Finder or other file-handling system which exists outside the various apps and doesn't have the flexibility which you're looking for.

The reason you don't see anything relating to your various bookmarks is that they will exist on your main system nowhere except in your backup file. If you want to pull them out then you'll have to play around inside that file itself, but I have no idea if you'll find anything recognizable or usable.

A short-term solution might be to see whether any of the other browsers handle bookmark storage better than the stripped Safari we now have; if so, you could eventually get switched over to using that. Longer term, perhaps requests to Apple, via the iPad feedback forms, to improve how Safari handles them could pay some dividends.