Quartz Moments

Take a few seconds before you decide what to open. Quartz Moments gives you configurable, card-first browser moments and a Quartz headlines feed in Chrome’s side panel. A MOMENT WITH A CHOICE When a moment is due, its card appears first. The default countdown is five seconds. Select the card to open the Quartz Moments Discover feed right away, press Cancel or Esc to dismiss, or choose Snooze 1 hour. When the countdown ends, the feed at moments.qz.com/discover/ opens or reuses only a matching Quartz Moments Discover tab; other sites are not replaced. This companion-hosted, server-rendered feed requests stories from Quartz. Selecting a headline opens the publisher separately. You can change the countdown, cadence and triggers, set quiet hours, or pause automatic moments in Settings. SET YOUR RHYTHM Chrome start, idle return, unlock and wake-from-sleep triggers begin enabled in setup. On new installs, “Across six moment windows” also starts checked: moments can appear at a few set times from morning to late afternoon, even while you are working and have not stepped away. Uncheck scheduled moments during setup or turn them off in Settings anytime. Existing installs keep their saved choices; a missing scheduled choice on an existing install stays off. Scheduled moments skip while the computer is idle or the screen is locked. Return and scheduled moments share quiet hours, the default six-a-day limit and at least 75 minutes of spacing by default, including after you dismiss an automatic moment. You can adjust your cadence, cancel a countdown or snooze for one hour. Manual moments from the side panel also begin with a card and countdown but bypass automatic timing limits. WHERE MOMENTS APPEAR Quartz access is required for Quartz content and the feed. You can separately grant optional site access to show a due moment on an eligible page. Without that grant, or on a page Chrome protects, the card opens in a temporary Quartz Moments tab instead. Overlay code is injected only when a moment is due, not on ordinary page navigation. Quartz Moments does not replace your default search engine, homepage or New Tab page. HEADLINES IN THE SIDE PANEL Open the side panel for Quartz headlines. The moment card shows Quartz sections and a short teaser; it is not a story list or personalized digest. Optional on-device interest learning separately orders the side-panel feed using signals from an allowlist of publisher sites. Setup starts with learning enabled; it is a separate setting that can be switched off or cleared. Learning uses page-reading and reading-progress scripts only on eligible listed publishers when enabled and permitted. Extracted article text is reduced locally and discarded. Optional Chrome history access can seed interests once from recent publisher visits; it is off unless you choose it and grant Chrome permission. OPTIONAL EXTRAS No extension account is needed. A Quartz headlines bookmark is optional and off unless you turn it on. Chrome asks for bookmark access, and switching the setting off can remove the extension-managed bookmark. USAGE SHARING AND VISIT ATTRIBUTION Usage analytics are separate from on-device learning. Mixpanel events are sent only after an installation-local agreement and while the local analytics preference is on. You can finish setup with analytics off or explicitly turn sharing on later in Settings. Turning it off stops future events but does not delete data already received. The control says “Share anonymous usage data to help improve Quartz Moments,” but events use a stable random installation ID and ordinary network metadata, including IP address, so they are not fully anonymous. See the Privacy Policy for the full boundaries and choices. Optional “Allow Quartz visit attribution” starts selected when no choice has been saved; saved opt-outs remain off. Before any RID is sent, review the notice and choose “I agree to RID visit attribution” in setup or Settings. Earlier agreements do not acknowledge the new notice. With that agreement and authorized usage sharing on, eligible extension-opened Quartz content and Moments Discover links carry the existing random installation ID as rid to measure Moments-driven visits. Article clicks from extension-opened Discover can continue the same ID to Quartz, with your choices checked at each click. Skip the agreement or turn either choice off to use all features without RID. Links with known advertising-click parameters remain RID-free. RID is pseudonymous, not anonymous, and may reach hosting logs, browser history, referrers, website analytics and downstream site recipients. Opting out cannot erase earlier records or recall sent requests. RID agreement is not website advertising consent. A fresh install opens the companion welcome page once and then requires extension setup before automatic moments begin. The welcome URL contains no installation ID. The companion website has separate measurement choices and privacy practices, described in the Privacy Policy.