Tab Notes

Ahmed Z

2021-05-18

Would be great to have the ability to show the bookmarks bar, when the option to hide in regular browser tabs is enabled, as a new tab normally does.
Also some additional features like using a tab screenshot to start annotation with.

Roblox player49

2021-02-06

Its very good because it GOOD

Ij Lo

2020-09-12

PROS: Unlike many other new tab notes & notepad extensions, this one keeps it simple and to the point. The primary bell & whistle is the dark mode option. Other extensions have a distracting hovering format bar that creepily follows your every click, or the font is odd and not changeable, or will suddenly want to also start showing you your bookmarks instead of improving the extension for it's original purpose. Tab Notes is sleek, super fast, and unobtrusive.

CONS: As many of us have stated, a recent Chrome update has rendered this extension difficult to use. On every new tab, a new blank note opens as expected, but the cursor focus is no longer in the address bar, but instead is on the note itself. This is highly disruptive to normal flow, and you end up with a few (or dozens! of) empty notes that you must manually delete. The developer seems to feel nothing can be done about this, and that we should all change our normal behavior to use this ext. For that, this extension will not get a 5 from me, and gets a 4 instead of a 3 solely because it is still preferred over many other similar extensions.

WORKAROUND: The offered "solution" of opening a new tab then clicking CMD/CTRL + L is ridiculous; behavior shouldn't need to be changed to this extent. Also of note, there can be a slight lag time for the new tab to fully open, forcing you to wait before manually refocusing the cursor. So this option is a non-starter. INSTEAD, TRY THIS: While I don't claim this is significantly better, at least my workflow is normalized. Keep Tab Notes installed. Open a few new tabs and type anything in each (this simply saves the tab as a new note; you can erase what you'd typed almost immediately and it will still be saved by Tab Notes). Now install extension "Custom New Tab URL". Enter (click) "Blank (about:blank)" as the URL or local file path (or whatever page you'd like). Now you have a quick new tab page with proper focus. As for your notes, you'll still have them plus a few spare (empty) notes to work with at any time. Not perfect, because now your number of available blank notes is limited, but you can always add more blank notes later by going through a disable/open new tab/re-enable process -- tedious, perhaps. A more significant note-taking extension or app with syncing capability may be in order if you are a hardcore note taker.

DEVELOPER: One idea is to offer the *option* for users to have TN open in each new tab or not (right now, simply having this extension enabled means this is the only option). Then make a single left-click on the extension's icon open a new tab with a focused blank note ready to rock. A single right-click can offer the option to automatically show the last 3 notes with a link to open a list of all notes in a new tab.

Good luck to you.

Squalle Squ

2020-08-13

Love this extension! My reason for only four stars is this...

When I open a new tab, the cursor goes right to the note body. So if I'm not looking at the screen and I start typing, it creates a note. That would be fine but when I delete what I typed (for instance, a web address), a blank note is still saved. After a while of this happening, I noticed I had around 30 blank notes in my list.

I realize that this is probably how it's meant to be. Maybe it's just me. But the extension is still one of the best and most useful available!

Nataly Klajner

2020-07-22

I used to love this extension and use it everyday, but since the update that made a new tab automatically blinking the text cursor, I can't use it anymore. The default behavior of a new tab is writing a website url or a google search, and if it's a note I want to write I can simply click on the empty canvas. But now it's not at all user friendly that I keep typing urls and they are only typed as a note, because I'm used to the normal activity of being able to type on the url bar. Please allow the users to choose how to start a new note!