Nook

Close tabs without losing them.

Nook quietly rests the tabs you haven’t looked at, asks why each one was open, and sorts them so you can find them again.

Free Chrome, Edge, Brave and Arc Nothing leaves your computer

Why was this open?

Pick a reason, or press 1 to 6. Enter takes the suggestion.

How it works

Your tabs rest. You decide what they were for.

  1. Tabs rest on their own

    Tabs you haven’t looked at for 4 hours close quietly and wait in Nook, each with a picture of the page. You choose the time, from 1 hour to 1 day.

  2. Sort them in one go

    When you’re ready, give each tab a reason: Read later, Buying, To do, Research, Reference, or close it for good. Nook suggests one, so most tabs take a single key.

  3. Find them again

    Search everything, reopen one tab or a whole section as a tab group, tick off what’s done, and let the rest wait without cluttering your browser.

Rest a whole window, reopen it in one click

Planning a trip or deep in a project? Save every tab in a window together, give it a name, and bring it back later in a new window, in the same order with its tab groups.

A saved window called Lisbon trip with four tabs and an Open in new window button

Leave yourself a note

Add a few words to any saved tab and they sit on its picture like a sticky note. Things you might buy from the same store line up side by side, so comparing is easy.

Two headphones from the same store side by side, one with a sticky note

One calm page for everything you kept

To do comes first, research is grouped by project, and every tab is one click from open. Light or dark, it follows your system.

The Nook page showing 16 resting tabs grouped by reason

Nook never closes

  • The tab you’re on
  • Pinned tabs
  • Tabs playing sound
  • Video calls on Meet, Zoom and Teams
  • Any site you add to its never-close list

Privacy

Everything stays on your computer.

Nook keeps your saved tabs, notes and thumbnails in your browser and nowhere else. There is nothing to sign up for, and nothing is sent to anyone.

Read the privacy policy

  • No accountInstall it and it works.
  • No serversYour tabs never leave your browser.
  • No trackingNo analytics, no ads, nothing sold.
  • Yours to takeExport to JSON or Markdown any time.

Questions

Good to know

Is Nook free?

Yes. Every feature is free while Nook is new.

Will it close a tab I’m in the middle of?

No. Only tabs you haven’t looked at for the time you choose. The clock counts only while you’re using the browser, so a night away or a restart doesn’t sweep everything up.

What happens to a tab after it rests?

It waits in Nook with its title, site and a picture of the page. Click it to open it again. It stays in Nook until you delete it or open it with “Open and remove”.

Where are my tabs stored?

In your browser on this computer. They aren’t synced to other devices. Uninstalling Nook removes them, so export first if you want a copy.

Can I bring my tabs from OneTab?

Yes. Export your list from OneTab, then use Import in Nook’s settings. The tabs arrive in Unsorted, ready to sort.

Which browsers does it work in?

Chrome and other browsers built on Chromium, such as Edge, Brave and Arc.