Notes for Your Tabs
Attach a note to any Chrome tab, so the reason you kept it is still there when you come back.
Write it where you found it
The reason you kept a tab is the thing you forget first. A week later the page is still open and you no longer know whether it was the pricing you wanted, the caveat in the third paragraph, or a colleague’s recommendation. A note takes ten seconds and answers that question for good.
What people actually write in them
Notes are short by design — there is no document editor here, and that is the point. The ones that earn their keep tend to be one line and a couple of bullets.
The pattern is the same one behind tab management for researchers: a tab you can explain is a tab you can close.
Finding one again
A note you cannot find is no better than the tab you were trying to close. Notes have their own search, and every note carries the page it came from, so you can look for either the thing you wrote or the thing you wrote it about.
If you are keeping the tab rather than the thought, that is what snoozing and saved sessions are for. Notes are for the part you would otherwise have to remember.
Ten seconds now, or ten minutes in a fortnight.
Notes are free and need no account. They live beside the tabs they describe, which is the only place you will actually look for them.
FAQ
The tab that is open when you write it. Nest saves the page’s address, title and icon alongside the note, so the note is a link back to the page as well as a record of it. Clicking the note takes you to that page.
A title, and then bold, italic, bulleted lists and numbered lists in the body. It is deliberately short of a document editor — enough to keep a decision and three bullet points legible, not enough to make you fiddle.
Notes have their own search, and each one shows the page it came from, so you can find it either by what you wrote or by the page you wrote it about. Notes can be edited and deleted at any time.
Free, with no account, and stored locally on your machine. Pro adds cloud sync if you want your notes on more than one computer, and export if you want them out of Nest entirely.
The note stays with the tab.
Attach a note to the tab it belongs to, then find it fast when you pick the work back up.
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