gTabby

Chasing Tab Tales

🐱 gTabby 2.8.0: 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 tab, come back days or months later, and everything is still there. Great for: - Planning and tracking work - Reading queues - Research and documentation - Debugging and investigation - Travel planning - Shopping and product comparisons 📣Privacy gTabby stores only the annotations you create for webpages. 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 v2.8.x: - Quick Capture: Select text from web page, mouse right click to add Note or Task on that page. No need to open Side-panel or Dashboard. - Chrome Tab Group: Now automatically sync with your Tab Groups and create auto labels so you can filter by them in the Dashboard. - Added New user onboarding guide and flip cards to help explore gTabby's features. 🔥Features: 📝 Keep persistent notes and labels for every webpage ✅ Create checkbox tasks and track them across all tabs 🔍 Search page titles, URLs, notes, labels, open tabs, and archived tabs 📁 Reopen archived tabs with their notes intact 🗃️ Automatically deduplicate, close, or freeze stale tabs safely 💾 Export portable HTML snapshots or JSON, with optional daily backups 🔒 Local-first: no extra account, no host permissions, no developer-operated servers, and no data collection 🔄 Optional Chrome Sync to keep recent notes and label changes in sync across your signed-in Chrome browsers 🅰️ Keyboard navigation support ⚡ Quick Tips Tip 1: Pin gTabby icon to the task bar. Open the side panel to add notes and labels without leaving your current tab. Markdown syntax supported. Tip 2: Enable Keyboard Shortcuts (chrome://extensions/shortcuts): Bind keys to toggle the side panel and dashboard instantly. ? Key to see all supported keys. Tip 3: Open the Dashboard to view, filter, sort, pin, or close tabs across all windows. Tip 4: Enable Auto-close/-freeze: Open Preferences ➔ Tab Lifecycle to auto-close stale tabs safely into a recoverable archive. Tip 5: Enable Auto Backup & Share: Setup auto daily backup to have all your data saved, for up to 2 weeks. Manual export is also supported. Tip 6: Opt-in Chrome Sync: Per device control. Enable Chrome sync to sync recent notes and label changes to other devices. Tip 7: Select any text in web page and mouse right click to quickly append the text to the Note or create a Task for this page.