gTabby

Every page remembered

🐱 gTabby 2.10.0: Your browser's memory. Remember your thoughts, decisions, and TODOs for every webpage. gTabby is a local-first browser companion that helps you keep the context behind the pages you visit. Add notes, labels, and tasks directly to any webpage. Close the page, come back days or months later, and everything is still there. 🎯 Great For This tool is perfect for planning and tracking your work, managing reading queues, organizing research and documentation, and streamlining debugging and investigations. It is also highly useful for travel planning as well as shopping and product comparisons. 📣 Privacy & Disclaimer Privacy First gTabby stores only the annotations you created for webpages and browsing related metadata. The information is needed to provide you tab history, page memory, activity sorting, backup, etc. It does not read page content, cookies, passwords, or inject code into webpages. It does not use developer-operated cloud services. By default, all annotations stay on your device. If you enable Chrome Sync, gTabby synchronizes only the annotation data needed across your own Chrome browsers, including page URLs, titles, notes, and labels. 📣Disclaimer gTabby is an independent personal side project. It was originally developed as an internal tool before being released publicly. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by Google. 🆕 What's New in v2.10.x - My Memories View Switch: Toggle between full and compact note displays in My Memories using a new header switch, search match excerpts, and spatial keyboard shortcuts. - Exact-URL Page Identity: Page memories now preserve full URLs including queries and hash fragments, keeping distinct page variants completely independent. This allows per page annotations such as in Youtube. - Auto Merge Customization: Only merge related document variants on Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive by default and leave custom domains merge to match exact URL. - Complete URL Tooltips: Hover over any dashboard page row to inspect its exact, full-length URL inside a clean, expanded tooltip. 🔥 Features 📝 Persistent Notes: Keep persistent notes and labels for every single webpage you visit. ✅ Checkbox Tasks: Create checkbox tasks as next steps and track them seamlessly across all your pages. 🔍 Global Search: Search through page titles, URLs, notes, labels, open pages, and archived pages instantly. 📁 Archive Restoration: Reopen archived pages with all of their associated notes fully intact. 🗃️ Smart Tab Management: Automatically deduplicate, close, or freeze stale tabs safely to keep your browser fast. 💾 Portable Exports: Export portable HTML snapshots or JSON files, with an option to enable daily backups. 🔒 Local-First Architecture: No extra accounts required, no host permissions needed, no developer-operated servers used, and absolutely no data collection. 🔄 Optional Chrome Sync: Sync recent notes and label changes across your signed-in Chrome browsers with per-device control. 🅰️ Keyboard Support: Full keyboard navigation support is built directly into the extension. ⚡ Quick Tips Tip 1: Pin the gTabby icon to your task bar. This allows you to open the side panel and add notes or labels without leaving your current page. Markdown syntax is fully supported. Tip 2: Enable Keyboard Shortcuts by going to chrome://extensions/shortcuts. You can bind keys to toggle the side panel and dashboard instantly. Press the ? key anytime to view all supported keys. Tip 3: Open the Dashboard to view, filter, sort, pin, or close pages across all of your open windows. Tip 4: Enable Auto-close and Auto-freeze by navigating to Preferences ➔ Page Lifecycle to archive stale pages safely into a recoverable archive. Tip 5: Enable Auto Backup & Share to set up an automatic daily backup that saves all your data for up to 2 weeks. Manual export is also fully supported. Tip 6: Opt-in to Chrome Sync for per-device control. Simply enable Chrome sync to sync your recent notes and label changes to your other devices. Tip 7: Select any text on a web page and right-click with your mouse to quickly append that text to your Note or automatically create a Task for that page.