TabRover - Personal Start Page

TabRover start page to boost productivity

🚀 TabRover – Turn Your New Tab Into a Smart Start Page TabRover is a powerful new tab start page and bookmarks manager that turns every blank tab into a personal productivity dashboard – with boards, columns, groups, quick links, and smart importing from your existing bookmarks. ✨ Meet TabRover Most new tab pages show you a logo, a search box, and maybe a few icons. TabRover goes much further. TabRover replaces the default new tab page with a structured, visual workspace built around boards, columns, and groups of links. It is designed for people who live in the browser all day and want a fast, organized, distraction‑free start page that makes it effortless to jump to the right place. Whether you are managing projects, research, clients, side hustles, or personal life – TabRover helps you keep everything in one well‑organized space that opens automatically with every new tab. 🔥 Why install TabRover? - Stop drowning in tabs. Move important links from random tabs into a clean start page. - Replace chaos with structure. Organize your life with boards, columns, and groups instead of one giant bookmarks list. - Open the right links faster. One or two clicks from a new tab to any key resource. - Always up to date. Import your existing bookmarks and keep them tidy in one place. - Feels familiar, but much more powerful. TabRover still looks like a smart start page, not a complex app. 🧰 Key features 🧭 New Tab Start Page - Replaces Chrome’s default New Tab with a customizable start page. - Clean, modern interface built for productivity, not distractions. - Works great on both large monitors and smaller laptop screens. 📚 Boards, Columns and Groups TabRover is built around a simple but powerful structure: - Boards – top‑level spaces (for example: Work, Personal, Side Projects, Learning). - Columns – logical areas inside a board (for example: Today, This Week, Inbox, Someday, or functional areas like Dev, Docs, Analytics). - Groups – cards inside columns that hold your actual links. You can: - Create many boards (subject to your license settings). - Add multiple columns per board with configurable maximum columns. - Create groups inside columns and fill them with links. - Drag and drop groups and links to reorganize your layout visually. This lets you build anything from a simple speed dial layout to a full project dashboard. ⭐ Smart Bookmarks Manager - Add links directly from the extension. - Organize them into groups inside columns. - See favicon, title, and optional description for each link. - One click opens any saved site in a new tab. - Built‑in search finds links and groups by title, URL, or description. Compared to a standard bookmarks bar, TabRover gives you: - More context (titles, descriptions, grouping by project). - Better use of screen space on the new tab page. - Faster visual scanning and navigation. 📥 Inbox for New Links Never lose a good link again: - Use the extension to send the current page into your TabRover inbox. - Inbox items appear directly on your start page, ready to be sorted into boards and groups. - Perfect for quick capture when you don’t want to interrupt your flow. 🔄 Refresh and Sync with Server TabRover can connect to a backend service to: - Fetch your latest boards and links from the TabRover server. - Save your changes so they are not locked to a single device. The Refresh button in the header: - Tries to pull fresh data from the server. - If the server is temporarily unavailable, TabRover safely falls back to local data, so your start page remains usable. This makes TabRover reliable even if your connection or backend is having a bad day. 📂 Import Browser Bookmarks Don’t start from zero: - Use the built‑in Import Browser bookmarks command to bring your existing bookmarks into TabRover. - Imported bookmarks are automatically grouped inside TabRover’s structure so you can reorganize them quickly. - Ideal when you are migrating from the classic Chrome bookmarks bar or from Google Bookmarks. 🎨 Light and Dark Themes - One‑click theme toggle in the header (caption: Switch theme). - Choose between light and dark modes depending on your environment and personal preference. - Your choice is remembered across sessions. ⚙️ Slide‑In Settings Panel A compact settings panel slides in from the right and lets you: - Change the number of columns displayed in your board. - Manage 'data export and backup'. - Restore data from a file. - Control features related to premium or license‑based functionality. The settings gear in the header works intuitively: - First click opens the panel. - Second click (or the close button) hides it again. 🔍 Powerful Inline Search - Instant search box at the top of the page. - Searches across: - Group titles - Link titles - URLs - Descriptions - Results appear in a compact dropdown for quick navigation. This turns a large collection of saved links into something you can navigate in seconds. 🧱 Drag and Drop Layout TabRover supports drag & drop for: - Boards (switch and manage boards from the UI). - Columns (depending on layout mode). - Groups and items inside groups. The layout engine is optimized for: - Multi‑column boards on wide screens. - Automatic wrapping and stacked layout on smaller screens. 💬 Built‑in Support Entry Point Whenever you need help, open the TabRover support site using the dedicated support icon (both on the web version and from the extension via the blue support launcher). We are always online in the chat and genuinely look forward to your ideas on how to make TabRover even better. 🧠 Designed for real‑world workflows TabRover is especially useful if you: - Work on multiple projects or clients and need a dedicated workspace for each. - Do research and want to group articles, tools, and references by topic. - Manage a remote team and keep important dashboards, docs, and communication tools in one place. - Are a student who wants a tab for each subject with links to materials, assignments, and tools. - Run side businesses and need a clean way to separate work, side hustles, and personal life. Some ideas for boards and layouts you can build: - Work: Columns like Today, This Week, Projects, Reports, Inbox. - Learning: Columns like Courses, Articles, Videos, Practice. - Personal: Columns like Finance, Travel, Health, Family, To Watch / To Read. ⚡ Fast, opinionated, but flexible TabRover intentionally focuses on a few core ideas: - The new tab page is the best place for your most important links. - A combination of boards, columns, and groups gives just enough structure without feeling heavy. - A clean UI and minimal friction make it more likely you will actually keep your space organized. At the same time, you still have flexibility: - You can create as many boards and categories as you need (within your plan). - You decide how to name and arrange columns and groups. - You can mix quick access shortcuts with deeper links to documentation, dashboards, and tools. 🔐 Privacy and security TabRover is built as a classic Chrome extension: - Runs entirely in your browser as a new tab replacement. - Uses https://tabrover.com only for API calls when you explicitly refresh or sync. - Uses local storage to keep your data available even if the server is unavailable. - No invasive tracking beyond optional analytics on the TabRover site. You remain in control of your data and your workflow. ✅ Feature highlights at a glance - New tab replacement (start page / home page) - Boards, columns, and groups of bookmarks - Smart bookmarks manager and speed dial - Inbox for newly captured links - Import existing browser or Google bookmarks - Search across groups, links, and URLs - Light and dark theme toggle (Switch theme) - Slide‑in settings panel with board layout options - Refresh button with safe fallback to local data - Blue support button that opens TabRover with chat widget - Drag and drop organization - Clean, modern, minimal design If you are tired of messy new tab pages and endless bookmark folders, install TabRover and give your browser a proper command center.