The fastest way to open any site you use.
Thrive Tab keeps the sites you actually use on a board on your new tab page, and puts that whole board one keystroke away. Hit the shortcut from any app, type two or three letters, press Enter. You're on the site. No hunting through twenty tabs, no digging through bookmark folders, no retyping a URL you half remember.
from anywhere
No account. No credit card. Nothing to load, because your board is on your device.
Why it's fast
Think about how you got to a site you use every week. You searched your inbox for it, or scrolled back through Slack, or opened the doc that had the link, or googled a name you half remembered and clicked the third result. A different route every time, and none of them short. Thrive Tab replaces all of them with the same three moves.
It searches a short list
Only the sites you deliberately added, not your whole history, not every bookmark you made in 2019. A short, hand-picked board is why two or three letters are enough, and the things you open most rise to the top.
It comes to you
The shortcut is global. You don't switch to Chrome, find the right window, open a tab and then start. You press the keys wherever you already are, and the search is in front of you.
Nothing has to load
Your board lives on your device, so there's no server round trip, no sync spinner and no sign-in. Results appear as fast as you can type them, offline included.
Start to finish, in 2 seconds
Someone asks for a link while you're mid-sentence in another app. Watch how quick it is to get it.
Slowed down so you can follow what's happening. At normal speed you've pressed the keys, typed and landed on the site before this sentence ends.
You can close those tabs now
You have stopped reading titles and started navigating by favicon.
Most of them aren't things you're reading. They're things you're afraid of losing, kept open because finding them again is annoying enough that leaving them there is easier. That's storage, not browsing, and it costs you a titlebar you can no longer read and a machine that never quite recovers.
One tab, and everything a keystroke away
When anything is two letters and an Enter away, a tab stops being worth keeping. Save every open tab into a list in one action, close the window, and get them back faster than you could have found them in the strip.
Your laptop fan gets the afternoon off, too.
Stop going to your sites. Call them.
Install it, add the ten sites you open every morning, and see how many times tomorrow you reach for the shortcut instead of the tab strip.
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The shortcut searches your Thrive Tab board
You build it once. Lists of the sites you actually use, called whatever makes sense to you, with the odd note or task sitting beside them. That board is what the search reads, and it has to live somewhere, so it lives on your new tab page.
Why the new tab page is the right home for it
It's already open
You open new tabs dozens of times a day already, now that habit lands you somewhere useful instead of nothing.
You remember what you have
A board sits in front of you all day, so you spot things by favicon and position instead of having to recall a name first.
It's where your day starts
Notes and tasks sit on the same list as the links they belong to, so today's checklist and the site it refers to turn up together.
About your board
Two letters, not twenty
Search matches titles and URLs across every list at once, and what you open most floats to the top. You don't need to remember which list a site is in.
One key, one site
Give up to five sites a keyboard shortcut of their own. Press it from anywhere, even when you're not in Chrome, and that site opens. For the handful of pages you open all day, that's the whole trip.
Adding takes one click
Save the page you're on from the toolbar button, or drop every open tab into a list in one action. A board nobody keeps up is a board nobody trusts.
Recognisable at a glance
Every link carries its real favicon, so when you do look at the board you find things by shape instead of reading a wall of text.
A note on every site
You can add a note to any site you save. Why you kept it, what the site is good for, which login method you used. It sits under the link on your board, and the search reads it too.
Notes and tasks too
Lists hold more than links. A checklist for today, a scratch note, a reminder, sitting beside the sites they belong with and turning up in the same keystroke.
Lists don't have to stay yours
A list can be published for other people to keep, and it can be followed from someone who knows a subject better than you do. Two different things, for two different reasons. Most people end up doing both.
Publish one of yours
Any list can become a public link. Share it with your followers, send it to a colleague, a client or a class. They don't need Thrive Tab to read it, and if they install it, that list joins their own board.
It stays live, too. Add a link next month and everyone who took the list gets it, with no "here's the updated version" message from you.
Follow someone else's
Someone has already built the list you keep meaning to build. Free tools that feel like paid ones, places to actually learn something, the daily puzzles, museums you can walk through from your couch. Follow one and it lands on your board beside your own lists.
Following is the part that matters. You're not copying a snapshot: when the curator adds something, it turns up on your board. No feed to scroll, no newsletter to open, and it's searchable in the same keystroke as everything else you keep.
See what people are curating"What tools do you use?" Answer it once.
Every creator ends up maintaining the same thing: a list of the gear, the apps, the sources, the discount links. Post it and it's stale in a month. Pin it and it's buried by Thursday. Share it as a Thrive Tab list instead and it keeps working.
One link that never goes stale Put it in your bio, your video description, your newsletter. Add a tool next month and everyone who took the list already has it. No follow-up post, no dead links, no "use the new link" comment pinned under an old video.
You stay on their screen A follower who subscribes to your list with Thrive Tab keeps your list on the page they open dozens of times a day. That's not one click on posting day. It's a place you hold in their browser, with your name on it.
Get found by people you haven't reached The best lists get featured in the Thrive Tab marketplace, in front of people already looking for exactly the thing you cover.
On your device, which is why there's nothing to wait for
Your board lives in your browser, on your machine: lists, links, notes and tasks. No account, no sync, no server deciding how fast your search feels. The privacy and the speed are the same design decision.
The one exception is deliberate: a list you choose to share is stored on our servers, because a public link has to be readable by whoever opens it. Nothing else leaves your device. Thrive Tab does not read your browsing history or the contents of the pages you visit.
Who gets the most out of it
People with too many tools
A dozen SaaS dashboards, three trackers, two inboxes. The more places your work lives, the more time you spend travelling between them, and the more one keystroke is worth.
Teams and small businesses
Share one list with the handbook, the drive, the queue and the on-call doc. Everyone reaches the current version the same way, and nobody asks where the link went.
Creators and influencers
Your audience keeps asking what you use. Give them one link that updates itself, and keep a spot on the screen they open all day.
Curators and teachers
Publish a reading list or a research toolkit as one living link. Your audience keeps it a shortcut away, and keeps getting every update you make to it.
Questions
What is the keyboard shortcut?
Ctrl+Shift+9, or Cmd+Shift+9 on a Mac. It works from anywhere, including from outside the browser. If those keys are already spoken for on your machine, rebind them on Chrome's chrome://extensions/shortcuts page. Worth trying on this page, incidentally. Something happens.
Does it work when the browser isn't open?
The shortcut is global, so it works from whatever app you are in: your editor, your mail client, that spreadsheet you have been avoiding. Chrome does need to be running for the shortcut to reach the extension, but it does not need to be the window you are looking at.
Can one site have its own shortcut?
Yes, that is Quick Launch. Up to five sites on your board can be given a key combo of their own, so the page opens straight away with no search step at all. Assign a site from its card menu on the board or from the extension settings, then pick the keys on Chrome's shortcuts page. Those shortcuts are global too, so the site you live in is one keypress away from whatever app you happen to be in.
Is Thrive Tab free?
Yes, properly free. Free to install and use from the Chrome Web Store, with no account, no credit card and no trial that quietly expires on a Tuesday.
Do I need an account?
No. We do not want your email address and we are not going to send you a newsletter. Your board sits in your browser and never phones home unless you publish a list on purpose.
Which browsers does it work in?
Google Chrome, and the Chromium browsers that can install from the Chrome Web Store, which is most of them these days. Safari and Firefox, not yet.
Where is my data stored?
On your device, in your browser's own extension storage. Lists, links, notes and tasks stay there unless you deliberately share a list. You can export the whole board to a file whenever you like.
What happens when I share a list?
You get a public link. Anyone who opens it can read the list, and if they have Thrive Tab they can keep it, after which every update you make reaches them too. Only the lists you deliberately share ever leave your device, so maybe don't put your bank login in one.
Can I go back to my normal new tab page?
Yes, and there are two ways. The extension settings let you leave your new tab page alone and keep everything else, or you can remove or disable the extension from Chrome's extensions page, which puts your default new tab back immediately. No exit interview.
How is this different from bookmarks?
Bookmarks are a menu you have to go looking in: find the browser, find the bar, find the folder, find the item. Thrive Tab is already on the screen every time you open a tab, grouped into lists you arrange yourself, with notes and tasks sitting beside the links. And when you are not looking at a new tab, the whole board is one shortcut away from whatever app you happen to be in, where two or three letters get you there instead of aiming at anything. It also only searches the sites you deliberately put on your board, so you are looking through a short list rather than everything you ever saved. Bookmarks are storage. This is a launcher.
There's nothing to learn. It's three keys.
Install it, put the ten sites you open every morning on the board, and try the shortcut once. That's the whole onboarding.
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