The Tab Economist

Tracking since Apr 16, 2026.

Changelog

• Apr 16, 2026
  description

  Tab Economist watches your open tabs. When you haven't visited a tab for a while, it automatically moves it to your Library — summarized, categorized, and searchable.
  
  FEATURES
  • Auto-archive — Tabs idle past your threshold (default 2 hr) are moved to your Library
  • AI summaries — Gemini Nano (on-device, Chrome 127+) categorizes and summarizes each page
  • Natural language search — "that article about M5 chips" actually finds it
  • Focus Mode — Pause all archiving during deep work or presentations
  • Duplicate detection — Visual navigator to spot and close duplicate tabs
  • Restore with context — Restore a full stack as a Chrome Tab Group
  • Export — Download your Library as Markdown or JSON
  • Protected domains — Add any domain to a never-archive list
  • Compact mode — Minimal footprint when you need the space
  
  PRIVACY
  All data stays on your device. No account, no sign-in, no tracking, no analytics. Sensitive sites (banking, email, medical, password managers) are automatically excluded and never touched. Uninstalling deletes everything.
  
  AI runs entirely on your device via Gemini Nano — your pages are never sent to any server.
  
  Free. No subscriptions. No catch.

  Tab Economist watches your open tabs. When you haven't visited a tab for a while, it automatically moves it to your Library — summarized, categorized, and searchable.
  
  FEATURES
  • Auto-archive — Tabs idle past your threshold (default 2 hr) are moved to your Library
  • AI summaries — Gemini Nano (on-device, Chrome 127+) categorizes and summarizes each page
  • Natural language search — "that article about M5 chips" actually finds it
  • Focus Mode — Pause all archiving during deep work or presentations
  • Read Later — Right-click any page to save it to a dedicated Read Later list
  • Suggested tabs — Review idle tabs before they're archived (optional manual mode)
  • Undo countdown — A visible 30-second window to cancel any auto-archive
  • Just closed — A 5-minute recovery stack for tabs you didn't mean to let go
  • Tab Group memory — Restore a stack and its original Chrome Tab Group comes back with it
  • Export — Download your Library as Markdown or JSON
  • Protected domains — Add any domain to a never-archive list
  • Duplicate-free Library — Tracking params stripped so the same page never archives twice
  
  PRIVACY
  All data stays on your device. No account, no sign-in, no tracking, no analytics. Sensitive sites (banking, email, medical, password managers) are automatically excluded and never touched. Uninstalling deletes everything.
  
  AI runs entirely on your device via Gemini Nano — your pages are never sent to any server. The extension holds no host permissions and cannot read the contents of any web page.
  
  Free. No subscriptions. No catch.

• Apr 16, 2026
  short_description

  Intelligent tab management. Idle tabs are archived with AI summaries — searchable, private, on-device.

  Idle tabs archived with on-device AI summaries. Read Later, group-aware restore, searchable library. Fully private.

• Apr 16, 2026
  host_permissions

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• Apr 16, 2026
  permissions

  tabs, storage, sidePanel, alarms, scripting, notifications, tabGroups, downloads

  tabs, storage, sidePanel, alarms, notifications, tabGroups, downloads, contextMenus

Permissions & access

Permissions

tabsstoragesidePanelalarmsnotificationstabGroupsdownloadscontextMenus

Host access

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