PYLON: Tab Manager, Workspaces & Dev Tools

Bookmark dock & tab workspaces, developer tools, CORS control, Pomodoro focus sanctuary, ambient sounds, and local server monitor.

PYLON is an all-in-one productivity workstation and developer workbench built directly into your Chrome New Tab. Stop drowning in 50+ chaotic tabs, juggling single-purpose extensions, and battling constant browser distractions. PYLON combines project tab workspaces, frontend developer debugging power tools, a distraction-shielding Pomodoro focus sanctuary, and a keyboard-first command palette into an ultra-fast, offline-first dashboard. Replaces fragmented tab managers, external developer utilities, and separate timer apps with a single, private extension. ⚡ Sub-500ms Instant Boot • Zero Layout Shift • 100% Private • Zero Cloud Accounts • Zero Tracking ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 1. PROJECT WORKSPACES & TAB MANAGER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Tame browser sprawl and group your work by project, client, or topic without slowing down your computer. • Instant Workspace Switching: Separate Work, Personal, Dev, and Research projects with one click. • Native Chrome Tab Groups Auto-Sync: Bi-directional synchronization with Chrome's native Tab Groups. Opening a project automatically restores its exact color-coded group. • Visual Bookmark Dock & Launcher: Keep your daily tools, web apps, and categorized bookmarks organized in an elegant floating dock and customizable dashboard grid. • Clean Slate (Tab Stash): Overwhelmed by tabs? Stash all unpinned tabs into storage with one click, clear your screen for fresh work, and restore them anytime. • Tab Deduplication & Bulk Actions: Find and close duplicate tabs across all windows, close tabs by domain, or group them cleanly. • Session Crash Recovery: Tab states and project links are safely preserved in local storage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠️ 2. DEVELOPER WORKBENCH & "GOD MODE" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A dedicated suite of power tools built right into your browser for instant local testing and debugging. • Local Server Registry & Health Pings: Monitor localhost:3000, 8080, Vite, Next.js, and API ports with live status indicators and instant reload shortcuts. • Declarative Net Request (DNR) Toggles: One-click global CORS unblock for API prototyping, test headers, and dark mode injection. • 4-Tier Destructive Data Nukes: Clear cookies, wipe cache, or nuke localhost storage with surgical precision without clearing your entire browser history. • Live Network Monitor: Inspect outgoing HTTP requests, view headers and payloads, pause the network stream, and export clean HTTP Archive (HAR) files. • Integrated Developer Utilities: Syntax-highlighted interactive JSON Tree Inspector, Regex tester, and Base64 encoder/decoder—running 100% client-side. • Authentic GitHub Contribution Graph: Track your daily 365-day commit streak and active repositories directly on your dashboard. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧘 3. FOCUS SANCTUARY & DISTRACTION SHIELD ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Turn your browser into a calm, aesthetic sanctuary engineered for deep flow state. • Dual Focus Engines: Choose between classic Pomodoro (25/5/15m with auto-cycles) or Flowmodoro (stopwatch counting up with earned break calculation). • Customizable Zen Distraction Shield: Block time-sink websites (YouTube, Reddit, X/Twitter, etc.) during active focus sessions. Fully customizable—add custom domains, toggle individual sites on/off, or disable the shield anytime. • "The One Thing" Priority Goal: Anchor your session with a sole priority goal and expandable subtask checkpoints so you stay locked on your main deliverable. • Quick Brain Dump Scratchpad (Alt+N): Instantly capture stray thoughts and todo items into an auto-saving slide-out drawer without breaking your concentration. • 2-Minute Emergency Pass: Urgent lookup? Take a timed emergency bypass with an animated countdown ring before the shield automatically re-locks. • Dynamic Island Audio Hub: Control background music tabs, adjust ambient sound volumes, and view live playback from an interactive topbar island. • Procedural Ambient Soundboard: 20+ layered audio generators (Rain, Campfire, Forest, Cafe, Brown Noise, Pink Noise, and 40Hz Gamma Binaural Beats) synthesized in real-time with Web Audio—zero downloads, zero audio buffering. • Living Wallpapers & Cinemagraphs: 40+ aesthetic backdrops with photorealistic procedural rain streaks, drifting dust motes, twinkling alpine stars, and campfire embers. • 16 Animated Vector Study Companions: Calming 2D companions (Midnight Cat, Shiba, Capybara, Hacker Terminal, Astronaut) providing subtle body-doubling comfort. • Minimalist Zen Mode: Double-click the timer or press 'M' to hide all UI cards and leave only oversized tabular countdown digits. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ 4. KEYBOARD-FIRST COMMAND PALETTE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Navigate your entire browser without taking your hands off the keyboard. • Press Cmd+K (or Ctrl+K) anywhere on the new tab. • Fuzzy-search across bookmarks, history, and open tabs in milliseconds. • Slash Commands: Run /close dupes, /close domain, /shortcuts, /export har, or /toggle cors directly from the prompt. • Ergonomic Shortcuts: Press Space to toggle timers, W for wallpapers, S for soundboard, Alt+N for quick Brain Dump scratchpad notes, and F for full screen. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💎 5. BLISTERING PERFORMANCE & DAILY UTILITIES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Engineered for raw speed, everyday convenience, and zero browser lag. • Sub-500ms Instant Boot: Optimized with zero white flash, 0.00 layout shift (CLS), and instantaneous 16ms responsiveness. • Live Weather & Adaptive Clock: Minimalist local forecast and temperature (Open-Meteo) with customizable 12-hour or 24-hour time display. • Universal Quick Search: Instant search bar supporting Google, DuckDuckGo, Brave, and Bing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 100% PRIVATE & OFFLINE-FIRST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Most tab managers and dashboards force you to create an account, upload your history to their servers, and track your activity. PYLON is fundamentally different: • Zero analytics, zero telemetries, zero third-party trackers. • Frame-0 anti-flicker architecture with sub-500ms launch time and zero layout shift (CLS 0.00). • No accounts, logins, or subscriptions required. • All bookmarks, workspaces, notes, and preferences live strictly on your device (chrome.storage.local). • Zero Data Lock-In: One-click export and import of all your workspaces, developer notes, bookmarks, and timer stats as a portable JSON backup. • Procedural ambient sound synthesis runs completely offline. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌨️ DEFAULT SHORTCUTS CHEAT SHEET ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Space — Start / Pause Focus Timer • Cmd+K / Ctrl+K — Open Command Palette • M — Toggle Minimalist Zen Clock • W — Open Living Wallpaper Gallery • Shift+W — Cycle Wallpapers Instantly • S — Open Ambient Soundboard & Music Hub • P — Open Animated Study Companions • Alt+N — Open Brain Dump Scratchpad Drawer • F — Toggle Full Screen Mode • ? — Show Keyboard Shortcuts Guide Transform your browser from an endless cycle of tab overload into a sovereign workstation. Install PYLON today.