A Chrome extension that replaces the new tab page with a persistent notepad, plus a today/tomorrow agenda from your Google Calendar.
- Every new tab is a centered, distraction-free notepad. The same pad is available from the toolbar popup.
- Free-form canvas: only typing
-starts a bullet. Enter continues it, Enter on an empty bullet clears it, Tab and Shift+Tab indent sub-bullets. - Notes save locally as you type and sync live across tabs and the popup. They survive browser restarts and extension updates.
- Optional calendar sidebar showing today's and tomorrow's events, with the next event highlighted. Works with multiple calendars via their secret iCal URLs, no OAuth needed.
- An eye button in the bottom-left corner blanks the page in every tab, for screen sharing.
- Follows your system appearance: white and blue in light mode, warm charcoal and coral in dark mode.
- Download or clone this repo.
- Open
chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode. - Click "Load unpacked" and select the repo folder.
Chrome 138+ shows a footer naming the extension on the new tab page. You can right-click it and choose "Hide footer on New Tab page".
Click the gear on a new tab and paste one iCal URL per line. In Google Calendar: Settings, pick a calendar, copy "Secret address in iCal format".
Anyone with a secret iCal URL can read that calendar, so don't share your copy of the folder with the URLs saved, and reset the address in Google Calendar if it leaks.
preview.html runs the page outside Chrome's extension sandbox, with localStorage standing in for chrome.storage. Serve the folder (python3 -m http.server) and open it, or open the file directly. The calendar fetch only works in the installed extension because plain pages are blocked by CORS.