Mogdho Paul

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NN-tab

A calm new tab page for Chrome: a clock, your bookmarks, a few notes and a quote. Nothing else.

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Free · Chrome, Edge and Brave · No account

What NN-tab does

Every new tab opens to the same quiet page: the time, your favourite sites, a short to-do list and a quote you like. No news, no ads, no clutter.

The NN-tab new tab page: a large clock and date, a quote, a to-do list and a grid of website bookmarks
A new tab with NN-tab
Clock and date
A big, clear clock with the full date.
Your bookmarks
Add the sites you open most as tiles. Drag them to reorder, and sort them into groups like Work and Social. Right-click a tile to edit it.
Notes
Click Add Note, type, and press Enter. Click the tick when it’s done.
Your own quote
Right-click the quote to put in one that keeps you going.
Light or dark, your wallpaper
Pick a theme and set any picture as the background.
ChatGPT in one click
The round button at the bottom right opens ChatGPT in a small window.

Add it to Chrome in two minutes

It isn’t in the Chrome Web Store yet, so you add it yourself. It only takes a few clicks.

  1. Download it

    Click the download button. You get one file, NN-tab.zip.

  2. Unzip it

    Right-click the file, choose Extract All, then Extract. You get a folder called NN-tab.

    Keep this folder. Move it somewhere it can stay, like your Documents folder. Chrome uses it every time it opens, so deleting it removes NN-tab.

  3. Open Chrome’s extensions page

    Type chrome://extensions in the address bar and press Enter. Switch on Developer mode at the top right.

    Developer mode only lets you add extensions from a folder on your computer. Nothing else changes.

  4. Add NN-tab

    Click Load unpacked and choose the NN-tab folder. NN-tab appears in the list, switched on and ready.

Using Edge or Brave? It works there too: type edge://extensions or brave://extensions instead. In Edge, Developer mode is in the menu on the left.

Settings and backup

Click the NN-tab icon in Chrome’s toolbar. If you can’t see it, click the puzzle-piece icon at the top right and pin NN-tab.

The NN-tab settings window with theme, icon, wallpaper and backup options
Theme
Switch between dark and light.
Wallpaper
Choose a picture from your computer, or remove it.
Sharper icons
Off at first: icons come from Chrome itself. Turn it on to look up clearer icons online. Chrome asks you first.
Backup
Save everything to a file and bring it back later, or move it to another computer.

Private by default

Your bookmarks, notes and settings stay on your computer. There’s no account, no tracking and nothing to sign up for.

Updating or removing it

Get a new version
Download it again and unzip it into the same NN-tab folder, replacing the old files. Then open chrome://extensions and click the round reload arrow on NN-tab.
Remove it
Open chrome://extensions, click Remove on NN-tab, then delete the NN-tab folder.

Get NN-tab

Free, for Chrome, Edge and Brave.

Download NN-tab

Made by Mogdho Paul. Curious how it works? See it on GitHub.

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