FlowTab

Your minimal, AI-powered new tab dashboard. Stay focused, get things done.

FlowTab — Beautiful, Private, AI-Powered New Tab Every time you open a new tab, you face a choice: let it be a distraction, or make it a tool. FlowTab transforms that blank moment into something purposeful — replacing Chrome's default new tab page with a calm, stunning productivity dashboard designed to help you think clearly, stay organized, and move through your day with intention. Install it once and it works immediately. No account. No sign-up. No data collection. No ads. Everything lives on your device. ✓ Live clock with 12/24-hour format ✓ Local weather — no API key needed ✓ Daily focus reminder ✓ Task manager with active overlay below the clock ✓ Built-in Pomodoro timer ✓ One-click bookmarks with auto-loaded favicons ✓ AI assistant (bring your own OpenAI or Anthropic key) ✓ 4 background modes including daily photography and custom uploads ✓ Daily motivational quote ✓ 10 fonts, light/dark mode, fully customizable widgets ✓ 100% local storage — no servers, no cloud, no tracking ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT YOU SEE EVERY TIME YOU OPEN A TAB ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The moment FlowTab opens, a full-screen background image fills the display and a frosted glass card appears at center. That card shows your clock, the date, live local weather, and your main focus for the day. Everything you need at a glance, nothing you don't. THE CLOCK Large, elegant, always in view. Choose between 12-hour and 24-hour formats. Set in a lightweight font that sits beautifully against any background without feeling heavy or intrusive. THE DATE AND LOCAL WEATHER Below the clock sits the date — spelled out in full — followed by a live weather readout from Open-Meteo, a free open-source weather service requiring no account and no API key. Conditions display in plain language: CLEAR, MOSTLY CLEAR, PARTLY CLOUDY, OVERCAST, FOGGY, DRIZZLE, RAIN, SNOW, SHOWERS, or THUNDERSTORM, with current temperature alongside. Toggle Fahrenheit/Celsius in Appearance. Hide weather entirely in Widgets — when you do, the separator and Celsius toggle disappear automatically. YOUR MAIN FOCUS A single-line field: "What's your main focus today?" Whatever you type saves instantly and persists until you change it — a lightweight daily commitment that keeps your most important priority visible before the noise of the day sets in. SEARCH BAR A built-in search and URL bar lives inside the glass card. Type to search Google, type a domain to navigate directly. Toggle it off in Settings for a completely minimal look. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STUNNING BACKGROUNDS, YOUR WAY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Four background modes. Complete creative control. DAILY PHOTO — A new high-resolution photograph from Picsum Photos every day, changing at midnight. The photographer's name appears in the lower-left corner. Don't love today's pick? Hit "Next photo" to cycle instantly to a new image. LOCAL IMAGES (UP TO 5) — Upload your own photos and FlowTab rotates through them on a schedule you set: hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly. A "Next image" button lets you advance manually at any time. Your photos are stored in your browser's local database and never leave your device. GRADIENT — Ten handpicked dark gradient palettes cycling daily through deep blues, purples, and teals. Beautiful, distraction-free, zero photography required. SINGLE FIXED IMAGE — Upload one photo and it stays permanently until you change it. Perfect for a personal photo, artwork, or anything you never tire of seeing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TASK MANAGER — ALWAYS WITHIN REACH ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Click the checklist icon in the top-right to open the Tasks panel — a frosted glass sidebar that slides in from the right without covering your main content. Add tasks by typing and pressing Enter. Mark them done with a click — they strike through and dim. A counter shows how many remain. All data saves instantly to local Chrome storage. TASKS VISIBLE ON YOUR NEW TAB Enable "Active tasks below clock" in Widgets and your pending tasks appear as a live frosted list directly below the glass card — no panel to open, visible every single time you open a tab. Click any item's checkbox to mark it complete. It disappears from the overlay immediately and syncs to your task list in real time. Your priorities stay on screen where you actually spend your time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ AI ASSISTANT — POWERED BY YOUR OWN KEY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FlowTab includes a full, general-purpose AI assistant — not a limited FAQ bot. It's a capable AI you can talk to about anything: draft emails, brainstorm ideas, explain concepts, debug code, translate, proofread, plan trips, think through decisions. No topic restrictions. No contextual limits. HOW IT WORKS FlowTab passes your messages directly from your browser to your chosen AI provider — OpenAI (GPT-4o mini) or Anthropic (Claude Haiku). FlowTab is never in the loop and adds zero markup to AI costs. You pay your provider only for what you use. Both models typically cost well under a dollar per month for daily casual use. SETUP Open Settings → AI Assistant, choose your provider, paste your API key, click Save. Your key is stored in Chrome's local extension storage and never transmitted to anyone except your chosen AI provider. Hide the chat icon entirely from Widgets if you prefer a cleaner interface. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ POMODORO TIMER, BOOKMARKS & DAILY QUOTES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ POMODORO TIMER — A complete focus timer, built in. Set focus duration (5–120 min) and break duration (1–30 min), hit Start, and a circular progress ring counts down in real time. It switches automatically between focus and break modes. Minimize it to a compact pill and restore with one tap. Sessions accumulate in the panel so you can watch your output grow across the day. BOOKMARKS — Save any URL with an optional name. Favicons load automatically. Click to open in a new tab, hover to reveal the delete button. One click from your new tab, stored entirely on your device — not buried in a dropdown. QUOTE OF THE DAY — A different motivational or philosophical quote every day from thinkers, artists, athletes, and leaders across history. The rotation is deterministic — never repeated on consecutive days. Toggle off in Widgets for a completely clean screen. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DEEP CUSTOMIZATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FlowTab's Settings panel is organized into Appearance, Widgets, and AI Assistant. Every control follows the same design language — consistent widths, aligned inputs — so the panel feels polished, not pieced together. APPEARANCE: Light or Dark mode · 10 premium fonts (Inter, Poppins, Raleway, Playfair Display, Nunito, Montserrat, Lato, Open Sans, Roboto, System) · Background mode + rotation interval · 12/24-hour clock · Fahrenheit/Celsius toggle WIDGETS (each individually on/off): Quote of the day · Search bar · Focus input · Weather · Active tasks below clock · AI assistant icon ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVACY FIRST — NO SERVERS, NO ACCOUNTS, NO ADS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FlowTab's privacy isn't a policy — it's structural. There is no FlowTab server. Data has nowhere to go, so it goes nowhere. Everything FlowTab stores — tasks, bookmarks, settings, API keys, uploaded photos — lives in Chrome's local extension storage or your browser's IndexedDB. It never leaves your device, never syncs to any cloud, never links to any account. No advertisements. No analytics. No telemetry. No behavioral tracking of any kind. No opt-in or opt-out — because there is genuinely nothing to opt into. The only external requests FlowTab ever makes: background photos from Picsum Photos, weather data from Open-Meteo, Google Fonts if you select a non-system typeface, and AI messages sent directly to OpenAI or Anthropic when you use the assistant. That is the complete list. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHO IS FLOWTAB FOR? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → The knowledge worker who opens 20 tabs a day and wants each new one to feel like a small reset before the noise sets in. → The student who wants a Pomodoro timer and task list in one place without four separate extensions that all require accounts. → The privacy-conscious user tired of new tab extensions that require sign-ups, sync data to servers, and surface ads and news feeds they never asked for. → The developer or analyst who wants a capable AI assistant the moment a new tab opens — connected to their own account, at their own cost, with no middleman. → Anyone who simply wants to see something beautiful every time they open Chrome, and feel a gentle nudge toward the one thing that matters most today. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Does FlowTab require an account? No. Install and it works immediately. No sign-up, no email, no account — ever. Does the AI assistant cost money? FlowTab is free. The AI assistant requires your own API key from OpenAI or Anthropic. Both offer pay-as-you-go with no subscription — typical daily use costs a fraction of a dollar per month. Where is my data stored? Locally on your device in Chrome's built-in extension storage and IndexedDB. Nothing is sent to FlowTab or any third party (other than AI messages you send directly to your chosen provider). Can I use my own photos as backgrounds? Yes. Upload up to five photos in Local Images mode. They rotate on your schedule and can be advanced manually. They never leave your browser. Does FlowTab work offline? Partially. Clock, tasks, bookmarks, focus field, and local/gradient backgrounds work fully offline. Daily photo, weather, and AI assistant require a connection. Will FlowTab slow down my browser? No. FlowTab is a single HTML file, one CSS file, one JavaScript file — no frameworks, no bundlers, no runtime dependencies. It renders near-instantly on any hardware. What happens if I clear my browser data? FlowTab's data clears with it and cannot be recovered, since it was never stored anywhere else. Tasks, bookmarks, settings, and photos will reset to defaults. Can I suggest a feature? Yes. The Settings panel has a "Send a Suggestion" form at the bottom — every submission is read personally by the developer. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FREE, INDEPENDENT, AND ALWAYS WILL BE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FlowTab is built and maintained by an independent developer at samsautomations.com. Its core features — clock, weather, tasks, bookmarks, all four background modes, Pomodoro timer, and all customization settings — will always be free. No subscription, no premium tier, no paywalls. The AI assistant requires your own API key because inference costs money, but FlowTab adds zero cost on top. If FlowTab improves your day, consider buying the developer a coffee via the link in your new tab — it keeps this extension updated and free. Install FlowTab today. The next tab you open will feel different — in exactly the right way.