Reviews & Comments of Tab Notes chrome extension

It's a very useful extension, especially because it saves all the text notes till they are manually removed. I'm reserving one star though, because the extension takes over the focus on Ctrl+t (new tab) and since "note" is not my primary reason to open a new tab, I end up having to click inside the address bar to start typing the search term or the url, which is a MAJOR problem with this extension. In fact between the extension taking control of the address bar, if you started typing in the address bar, half of it goes in the tab note, and if you shift focus again to address bar, the tab note gets saved with that partial url, or search term, which is a noise. At least there should be an option to configure that behavior on/off. Otherwise, and excellent app.

I love it! but I have 1 suggestion. Allow the keyboard to stay focused to the address bar. I habitually hit CTRL+T and start typing a web address or search query. This is no longer possible with Tab Notes. :(

Love the simplicity! However, it does not sync across devices...

Excellent light app, always available. Would be good if it were possible to choose between Tab Note or default when opening new tab

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.

Its very good because it GOOD

I love the fact that it is very simple.

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.

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!

Clean and simple. Love the interface. Need cursor auto-focus on address bar, we don't write a note everytime we open a tab.

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!

I've been using this for a year or two and really love it, but recently the behavior seems to have slightly changed. Before, when I opened a new tab my cursor began in the URL box. Now when I open a new tab my cursor jumps to the notes section. This really slows me down because as much as I love this extension, I do also use my chrome tabs to navigate to websites more often than not. Very disappointing.

how do you use the notes?

Fast and simple. Newtabs are now .txt files :D Although, it lacks very simple implementations. 1)You can backup your notes easily but it comes in a programming language, its pretty unreadable You cannot import it back. 2)No basic italic,bold etc. text formatting. 3)Accidentally delete your note and its gone forever. If 1) and 3) gets solved, i'd say its still a solid 5 star.

It's clean but: a) text should be somewhat centered and not so far to the left (ideally the user should control the amount of indentation); b) it needs basic formatting (like bold, italic, etc.) and c) saving to cloud storage; AUTO saving would be ideal! There is an extension called Noisli and it's better. You get to save your text, if you like, to: Dropbox and Google Drive. And with that extension you get to also listen to some nice relaxing music in the background. I would give Tab Notes another try if the developer does at least a) and c) from above. For now, it's removed.

Love it! A tab note is always one hotkey away. I feel like it is very stable now too. Only thing i miss is dark mode. Please please add this! :)

I love how the first image is literally a confession But you lied in the second image! That's not how it actually looks! It's even more bare than the second image LOL This is simplicity. simplicity only. nothing else. simply amazing.

Useful, SIMPLE and handy. I'd been looking for something like this... I just didn't know it! :)

This is a really useful way to jot things down and have them available in an instant. Would love two enhancements: 1) I believe it doesn't share notes between browser implementations (e.g. if I enter a note on my Mac, it would be nice if that note showed up on my PC and vice versa) 2) Not sure how you do it but the extension replaces the default new tab with the ability to take a note. This means you have to type your google queries in the menu bar or go to Google.com for search. It would be nice if there was a mode where you could choose to leave the default tab (i.e. auto go to Google) but opens up a note / a new note if you click on the button in the toolbar. Other than this, I love it!

This is my most-used extension! I use it every day and barely use a Post-It note any more :D I just bought a new laptop and exported my notes to a JSON file. How do I import them? And since I don't know how to import them, I've been using it and have new notes - lots of new notes - that I don't want to overwrite. Thanks for the work on this! Are you planning any updates?

Not changing a context to take note is a brilliant idea !

Thank goodness. Good man.

fast note saving, always where you need them. Sick idea and nice implementation. big thanks to the developer

simple, yet perfect!!!

Nice! Would be curious to look at the source code.

I just dont know how to use it

I read the note on the screenshot thing and it was cute and funny

Very great! I love it. Very smooth and light. Cloud sync with google doc or Evernote would be the best. Personally, no formatting is needed but inserting emoji would be great function. Thanks for creating it. ??

Very convenient and love the fact I can see notes historically. One needed enhancement would be support for basic formatting, even if through markdown. Bold italics strikethrough bullets Keep up the great work and thank you!

awesome but a little bit of color would be nice

im glad i found this!

neat and fast. save notes quickly. Thank you! hope to be able to sync to cloud storage.

Great extension, but how can one view/save the notes? I assumed that when I sent all tabs (including the one on which I was using Tab Notes) to OneTab, that the page WITH the notes on it would be saved, however when I clicked on the link for the notes I had been working on, all that showed up was a blank Tab Notes page... If one is unable to save the notes at a later time via this exttension itself, or that of another extension, then using google docs quick create, one note, etc would present itself to be a more efficient extension. However, Tab Notes is much simpler and has the ability to surpass those and other extensions if it would just implement a way to SAVE the notes and bring them up through this extension itself

Incredibly lightweight and functions as explained. Optionally, multi-device sync behavior would be absolutely perfect.

!!!!!! good!!!!

Cool idea!