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The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.
About Focus Tab
Focus Tab replaces your new-tab page with a quiet, intentional dashboard:
• Today's intention — one text field that auto-clears at midnight
• Mini todo list — five items max, by design
• Pomodoro timer — survives tab close, fires a notification at the end of focus and break
• Top of Hacker News — refreshed in the background, click to read
• Weather and local time — set your city once, forget it
Nothing scrolls. Nothing tracks. Nothing about your data leaves your device — Focus Tab makes only two outbound calls: one for the top HN story (no personal info sent) and one for weather (just the coordinates of the city you set).
Dark mode by default. Inter font, self-hosted (no Google Fonts call). Accessible focus rings; respects prefers-reduced-motion.
Configurable: focus and break durations, time format (12 / 24 hour), temperature units (F / C), refresh intervals for HN and weather.
what's new in 0.1.2
todos archive — finally a memory
• checking a todo archives it instantly, freeing a slot in the 5-cap
active list — no more "done but still taking up space"
• 5-second undo toast in the widget catches stray clicks
• new History tab in settings: see everything you've completed,
grouped by date, with per-item restore
• export your archive as JSON, or clear it all if you want a reset
• optional "N completed today" footer in the widget
feed sources beyond hacker news (carried over from the 0.1.1 round
for anyone catching up)
• pick npr, bbc, aeon, quanta, lobsters, or paste any RSS URL
• hide already-clicked stories with a single toggle
• toggle score / comments / domain visibility on each HN card
• settings polish: back-to-focus-tab link, dark dropdown menus
the layout and zen aesthetic stay the same — these are capability
additions, not a redesign.
what's new in 0.1.3
quick links — a launchpad in the hero strip
• pin up to 6 favorite URLs as favicon chips under the time and weather,
so the new tab is a way out, not a place to land
• favicons come from chrome's own cache (no network requests, no per-site
permissions to grant)
• edit from a new "quick links" section in settings: add, reorder with
↑/↓, remove with ×, and a one-line "https://example.com" + label form
for new entries
• type bare hosts like "gmail.com" — they normalize to https:// for you
• blank labels auto-derive from the hostname (mail.google.com → mail)
• duplicates rejected on save; non-http(s) schemes blocked so a stray
paste can't turn into a stored javascript: link
• an empty list renders nothing — the hero stays clean until you add
something
the cap of 6 is deliberate. enough for gmail/calendar/github/drive/notion/
slack-style essentials, few enough that the strip stays a "focus list"
rather than a launcher.
what's new in 0.1.4
ai day planner — one quiet ritual, then it gets out of the way
• a small "plan my day" affordance under your intention, once per day:
brain-dump what's on your plate, get back a suggested intention and
up to 5 todos, accept or discard
• your unfinished todos ride along as carry-over candidates — the plan
decides what still matters
• bring your own API key (DeepSeek or OpenAI), configured in a new
"ai planning" settings section; pick a model or take the default
• completely invisible until configured — zero AI pixels out of the box
• after you accept or skip, the affordance disappears until tomorrow;
no chat, no follow-ups, no background calls — one request, only when
you ask
• everything sent is disclosed in the privacy policy: your brain-dump
text and current todo texts, to the provider you chose, only at the
moment you click plan
• provider access is granted as a runtime permission on save, revocable
any time in chrome://extensions
also fixed
• conditional settings fields (custom RSS url, hacker news sub-source)
now actually hide when they don't apply — a stylesheet rule had been
quietly overriding the hidden attribute since 0.1.2
the once-per-day cap is deliberate. the AI helps you set the day's
direction, then leaves you alone — a planning tool, not a companion.