tabonomy.Open a new tab. Pick up where you left off.
Tabonomy turns every new tab into a calm working desk: pages you added to Working, likely next pages in Continue, and — when enabled — video progress you can recognize at a glance. Everything else groups itself locally, and every close has a searchable Archive.
Chrome 116+. No account, no login, no tracking.
Automatic grouping
Your tabs sort themselves. On your machine.
Research, shopping, reading, work — every tab finds its pile without you doing anything, and the piles stay sorted as you work. After a one-time download, grouping needs no network at all.
Group everything with Alt+G. Undo with Ctrl+Z, like anything else. Or group by how recently you touched something. Or turn it off.
Searchable Archive
Nothing you close is ever lost.
Every tab you close is remembered — what it was, when you let it go, where you came from. It stays in the Archive until you remove it, not thirty days, not until the cache fills. When you go looking, you won’t remember the title. You’ll remember that it was a long argument about pricing, that you read it on a Tuesday, that there was a chart near the bottom. Search takes that.
Describe what you remember…
The Archive brings back the page, not the session. The address, the title, the thread you were pulling — not your scroll position, not a half-filled form. No archive can return those. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling something.
Safe cleanup
Cleanup suggests. You decide.
Tabs you seem finished with surface for your review — nothing closes without your say, and nothing is irreversible. Whatever goes can be brought back, all of it or just the one you changed your mind about. Mark a tab as Working and cleanup leaves it alone.
Transcript export
Turn a video transcript into a note you can keep.
On an explicit export, Tabonomy reads available YouTube or Bilibili captions, turns them into clean Markdown, and saves the file for Obsidian. The source stays attached and timestamps stay useful.
No background scraping. No transcript request until you ask.
There is no Tabonomy server.
No account to create. No sync. No telemetry. Your tabs and your Archive never leave this machine — which also means there is no dashboard where anyone at Tabonomy can look at your browsing, because there is no anyone and there is no dashboard.
Three kinds of network use exist, and they are all listed on this site: the one-time download, transcripts when you ask for one, and exports to a location you choose. Nothing else.
Tabonomy asks for ten permissions and no optional ones. It does not request access to your browser history or your cookies.
Before you install
- It replaces your new-tab page. That is the point, but it is a real change.
- The first run downloads about 200 MB. Once.
- Your Archive lives on this machine. There is no sync, so there is no copy anywhere else.
- It brings back pages, not sessions.
- It is new. Version 1.0.0, one developer, no users to vouch for it yet.
What Tabonomy does
| Pick up where you left off | A Working shelf and Continue suggestions, plus visible video progress when enabled. |
|---|---|
| Never lose a closed tab | Everything you close is remembered, and searchable by what you recall about it. |
| Declutter suggestions | Tabs you’re done with, surfaced for your approval. |
| Tabs sort themselves | Automatic grouping, entirely on your machine. |
| Video transcripts | YouTube and Bilibili, on request. |
| Export | Markdown and Obsidian, with sources intact. |
| Private by design | No account, no server, no tracking. |
Close the tab. It’ll be there.
Chrome 116+. No account, no login, no tracking.