VeryWWW replaces Chrome’s blank new tab with a page of your own. Your words, big, on a colour wall, with your calendar, to-do list, notes, focus timer and favourite sites one click away.
Free, for Chrome on your computer. Listing soon. No account.
Six things on every new tab
Write anything as your headline, in Grotesk, Serif or Halftone dots. Pick one of 24 walls in eight colour families, as a flat colour or a photograph of sculpted plaster. Then choose a layout: Headline, Clock, Focus, Week, Countdown, Quiet, Write, World, Read, Browser, Listening or Calendar.
Scroll down for the month, today’s agenda and what’s next. Subscribe to Google Calendar, Outlook or iCloud with a private calendar address, or import an .ics file. It refreshes on its own.
To-dos with Today’s priorities and reminders, and notes that save as you type. They sit one scroll below your headline, and in the side panel beside any page.
Start a focus session from the new tab, the side panel or a shortcut. One countdown follows you across all three, with breaks, a daily target and an optional end chime.
Folders for links, places, file paths and notes, each with its own colour and mark. Point at anything on a page, a paragraph, a picture, a product or an email, and click to file it. A quote comes back with a link to the exact passage.
Ctrl+K, or ⌘K on a Mac, finds your tools, notes, to-dos, Shelf and settings, and answers sums, conversions and time zones. Alt+X opens the side panel beside any page. Type b and a space in the address bar to search your own things.
Your things stay in your browser. There’s no VeryWWW account, nothing is sent to us, and nobody is selling your attention.
A few features talk to other services, and only when you use them: search goes to the engine you pick, weather to Open-Meteo, calendars straight from Google, Microsoft or Apple.
Read the extension privacy noticeAdd VeryWWW from the Chrome Web Store, then open a new tab. Chrome asks once whether to keep the change. Choose Keep it, and every new tab is yours from then on.
Yes. Every tool and every wall, with no account, no ads and no card.
No. VeryWWW keeps everything in your browser. If you turn on sync, your tools, prompts and settings travel with your own Chrome account.
Yes. Paste your calendar’s private address from Google Calendar, Outlook or iCloud, or import an .ics file. VeryWWW reads it straight from the provider about every 30 minutes.
Chrome 116 or later, on a computer.
Yes. Export saved content keeps one file with your setup, Canvas and Shelf, and Restore from backup brings it back on the other computer.
Turn VeryWWW off or remove it at chrome://extensions. Nothing else to undo.