RockStart

A calm new tab page: your bookmarks in an Arc-style sidebar, live tab indicators, a flip clock and a synced to-do list.

RockStart transforms your browser's new tab into a calm, focused home screen with an Arc-style collapsible bookmarks sidebar, assigned GitHub PRs & issues, a split-flap retro flip clock, and a synced to-do list. No accounts, no advertisements, and zero tracking. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📁 ARC-STYLE BOOKMARKS SIDEBAR • Your browser’s native bookmarks organized into collapsible, nested folders. • Changes write directly to your browser's bookmark manager and sync across devices. • Drag-and-drop reordering, quick pin bar for your top sites, and one-click search. 🐙 GITHUB PRs, REVIEWS & ISSUES • Stay on top of your work without keeping extra dashboard tabs open. • Dedicated filters for active Assigned PRs, Review Requests, and Assigned Open Issues. • Shows PR draft/review status, repository name, comment counts, and live author avatars. • Private & secure: connects directly to GitHub via your personal token (stored locally and in your private browser sync storage). ⏰ RETRO SPLIT-FLAP FLIP CLOCK • Smooth rolling mechanical flip clock with physics-based spring animations. • Choose between retro split-flap or minimal plain digital typography. • Supports Auto, 12-hour (with AM/PM), and 24-hour formats. ✅ SYNCED TO-DO LIST • Lightweight task manager that syncs seamlessly through your browser account. • Reorder tasks with drag-and-drop or keyboard shortcuts. • Expandable "Done" archive with one-click cleanup. 🖼️ CURATED DAILY WALLPAPERS & FROSTED GLASS • Rotating high-res daily backgrounds: Bing daily, Wikimedia Picture of the Day, Picsum curated photography, and The Met open-access art. • Or use any custom image URL or local photo upload. • Custom glassmorphism controls: adjust blur frost, theme dimming, noise grain, and light/dark theme matching. ⌨️ KEYBOARD FIRST WORKFLOW Press ? anytime to open the shortcut sheet: • G — Jump to GitHub PRs & issues • T — Add a new to-do task • / or S — Focus search / address bar • B — Jump to Bookmarks sidebar • P — Focus Pinned sites • O — View active open tabs • A — Open Appearance & settings • [ — Toggle sidebar ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY BY DESIGN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • No ads. • No analytics or third-party trackers. • No external servers: all data stays within your browser and syncs through your official browser account (Chrome/Firefox Sync).