Sidebar for Tabs/Bookmarks

Tracking since Apr 1, 2026.

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• Jun 7, 2026
  description

  # Arc-like Vertical Tabs & Bookmarks - Transform Chrome into a Productivity Powerhouse
  
  Tired of getting lost in dozens of cluttered tabs? Craving the sleek, vertical tab experience of the Arc browser but can't leave the Chrome ecosystem?
  **Arc-like Vertical Tabs & Bookmarks** is your ultimate answer! 🚀
  
  We've completely reimagined Chrome, introducing a modern side panel that unifies **Vertical Tabs**, **Tab Groups**, and **Bookmark Management**. Say goodbye to the traditional horizontal tab bar and regain control of your browser. Experience focus and efficiency like never before.
  
  
  🌐 **Official Website**: [https://sidebar-for-tabs-bookmarks.taislife.work/](https://sidebar-for-tabs-bookmarks.taislife.work/)
  
  ---
  
  ## 🔥 Key Features
  
  ### 🔗 Exclusive Innovation: Linked Tabs
  This is our most powerful feature! When you open a bookmark from the sidebar, we automatically create a **"Link"**.
  - **Avoid Tab Clutter**: Click the link icon next to a bookmark to see all tabs opened from it, helping you avoid opening duplicates and saving system resources.
  - **Two-Way Sync**: When a tab is closed, the bookmark status updates automatically; when a bookmark is deleted, the linked tab is handled intelligently.
  - **Visual Feedback**: A refined link icon appears next to bookmarks, letting you know at a glance which ones are currently active.
  
  ### ⚡️ Smart Rendering
  Have thousands of bookmarks? No problem!
  - **Dynamic Rendering**: Switched from Virtual Scrolling to an efficient Dynamic Rendering mechanism, ensuring smooth performance with better compatibility.
  - **Smooth Experience**: Navigate through large bookmark libraries effortlessly without lag.
  
  ### 🪟 Cross-Window Management
  - **Window Overview**: View tabs from all open Chrome windows directly in the sidebar, not just the current one.
  - **Global Search**: Search results include tabs from all windows, allowing for instant navigation across your entire session.
  ### 🔍 Professional Grade Search
  Don't just search—find instantly.
  - **Multi-Keyword Filtering**: Supports space-separated keywords (e.g., "google docs work") for precise targeting.
  - **Domain Search**: Type a domain (like `github.com`) to instantly filter tabs and bookmarks from specific sources.
  - **Smart Highlighting**: Real-time highlighting of matched keywords keeps your visual focus clear.
  
  ### 🗂️ Unified Workspace
  - **Vertical Tabs**: View full page titles, no longer compressed into tiny icons.
  - **Native Group Support**: Perfectly integrates with Chrome Tab Groups, syncing colors and names.
  - **Custom Window Naming**: Assign custom names to your windows (e.g., "Work", "Personal") for clearer context.
  - **Drag & Drop**: Intuitive management—move items effortlessly between tabs, groups, and bookmark folders.
  - **Drag to Save**: Drag a tab into the bookmarks area to save it instantly; drag a bookmark to the tabs area to open it.
  - **Reading List & RSS**: Your personal hub for article curation. Sync with the native Chrome Reading List, subscribe to RSS feeds, and manage everything in one place with smart deduplication and sorting.
  
  ### 🎨 Premium Design & Customization
  - **Custom Background Image**: Personalize your workspace! Upload your own image or use a URL. Fine-tune it with adjustable **opacity** and **blur** for the perfect look.
  - **Revamped Settings UI**: Enjoy a modern, organized settings panel with a new **Accordion layout**, making it easier than ever to configure your sidebar.
  - **Custom Theme Colors**: Go beyond presets. You now have full control over the main background, accent, and text colors.
  - **Focus Mode**: A sleek dark theme with carefully tuned contrast to reduce eye strain.
  - **Auto-Expand**: Hover over folders while dragging items to automatically expand the path.
  - **Smart Hover**: Action buttons appear only when needed, keeping the interface clean and distraction-free.
  
  ---
  
  ## ⌨️ Full Keyboard Navigation & Shortcuts
  - **Native Experience**: Use `Arrow Up`/`Arrow Down` keys to navigate seamlessly between tabs and bookmarks.
  - **Micro-Interactions**: Use `Arrow Left`/`Arrow Right` to navigate and trigger internal buttons (like Close, Add to Group).
  - **Productivity Shortcuts**:
      - `F2`: Instantly rename any tab or bookmark.
      - `Delete`: Quickly remove unwanted items.
      - `Cmd/Ctrl + I`: Toggle Sidebar.
      - `Opt/Alt + T`: Create a new tab next to the current one.
  - **Search Integration**: Press `Up` at the top of the list to focus the search bar; press `Down` in the search bar to jump to results.
  - **Focus Tip**: Once the sidebar is open, simply press any arrow key to automatically grab focus and start navigating.
  
  
  ---
  
  ## Privacy & Security
  We value your privacy. This extension operates **completely offline**. Your bookmarks, browsing history, and tab information are **NEVER** uploaded to any server.
  
  ---
  
  **Install now and upgrade your Chrome to a productivity beast! 🌟**
  
  ---
  
  ## Open Source & Community
  This is an open source project. If you are interested in contributing, please visit our GitHub repository:
  https://github.com/Tai-ch0802/arc-like-chrome-extension

  # Arc-like Vertical Tabs & Bookmarks · Your Knowledge Workspace for Chrome
  
  🔒 **100% local** · 🔑 **Zero API key** · 🤖 **Built-in Gemini Nano AI**
  
  Chrome's native vertical tabs (2025) only show your tabs vertically. **This is a full knowledge workspace**: unified tabs + bookmarks + reading list, AI-powered (auto group naming, tab cleanup, hover summaries, natural-language search), Workspaces for hibernate-and-restore tab bundles synced across devices, a ⌘K Command Palette, and Bookmark Tools for tagging, deduping, and dead-link cleanup — all on-device, no API key required.
  
  Tired of getting lost in dozens of cluttered tabs? Craving the sleek, vertical tab experience of the Arc browser but can't leave the Chrome ecosystem?
  **Arc-like Vertical Tabs & Bookmarks** is your ultimate answer! 🚀
  
  ## 🆚 Why not just Chrome's native vertical tabs?
  
  | Feature | Native Vertical Tabs | This Extension |
  | :--- | :---: | :---: |
  | Vertical tab list, tab groups | ✅ | ✅ |
  | Bookmarks in the same panel | ❌ | ✅ |
  | Reading List integrated | ❌ | ✅ |
  | RSS subscriptions | ❌ | ✅ |
  | Cross-window tab view | ❌ | ✅ |
  | **Workspaces (hibernate + restore, cross-device)** | ❌ | ✅ |
  | **AI Auto Group Naming** | ❌ | ✅ Local AI |
  | **AI Tab Cleanup Suggestions** | ❌ | ✅ Local AI |
  | **AI Hover Summary** | ❌ | ✅ Local AI |
  | **Ask AI Find (natural-language search)** | ❌ | ✅ Local AI |
  | **Bookmark Tools** (tags / dedupe / dead-link) | ❌ | ✅ |
  | **Command Palette (⌘K)** | ❌ | ✅ |
  | **Custom theme + background image** | ❌ | ✅ |
  | API key required | N/A | ❌ Zero |
  | 100% local & offline | ✅ | ✅ |
  
  We've completely reimagined Chrome, introducing a modern side panel that unifies **Vertical Tabs**, **Tab Groups**, and **Bookmark Management**. Say goodbye to the traditional horizontal tab bar and regain control of your browser. Experience focus and efficiency like never before.
  
  
  🌐 **Official Website**: [https://sidebar-for-tabs-bookmarks.taislife.work/](https://sidebar-for-tabs-bookmarks.taislife.work/)
  
  ---
  
  ## 🔥 Key Features
  
  ### 🤖 Knowledge Workspace 2026 (new)
  - **AI Auto Group Naming**: New empty tab groups get an emoji + short label automatically (Gemini Nano).
  - **AI Tab Cleanup Suggestions**: 🧹 button — AI tells you which tabs you can probably close, with short reasons.
  - **AI Hover Summary**: Hover any tab 2s for a one-sentence page summary.
  - **AI Reading List Summary Memory**: Added to Reading List? AI summarizes once and stores locally — preview later, even offline.
  - **Ask AI to Find (⌘K)**: Natural-language search across tabs, bookmarks, and reading list — "the React Hooks article I read last week" actually works.
  - **Workspaces**: Bundle tabs as named workspaces, hibernate-and-restore one-click, metadata sync across devices.
  - **Command Palette (⌘K / Ctrl+K)**: Linear/Raycast-style unified search + actions overlay.
  - **Bookmark Tools**: 🛠️ for multi-tag, duplicate finder, dead-link checker.
  - **Zero Config, No API Key**: All AI runs on Chrome's built-in Gemini Nano. Nothing leaves your machine.
  
  ### 🔗 Exclusive Innovation: Linked Tabs
  This is our most powerful feature! When you open a bookmark from the sidebar, we automatically create a **"Link"**.
  - **Avoid Tab Clutter**: Click the link icon next to a bookmark to see all tabs opened from it, helping you avoid opening duplicates and saving system resources.
  - **Two-Way Sync**: When a tab is closed, the bookmark status updates automatically; when a bookmark is deleted, the linked tab is handled intelligently.
  - **Visual Feedback**: A refined link icon appears next to bookmarks, letting you know at a glance which ones are currently active.
  
  ### ⚡️ Smart Rendering
  Have thousands of bookmarks? No problem!
  - **Dynamic Rendering**: Switched from Virtual Scrolling to an efficient Dynamic Rendering mechanism, ensuring smooth performance with better compatibility.
  - **Smooth Experience**: Navigate through large bookmark libraries effortlessly without lag.
  
  ### 🪟 Cross-Window Management
  - **Window Overview**: View tabs from all open Chrome windows directly in the sidebar, not just the current one.
  - **Global Search**: Search results include tabs from all windows, allowing for instant navigation across your entire session.
  ### 🔍 Professional Grade Search
  Don't just search—find instantly.
  - **Multi-Keyword Filtering**: Supports space-separated keywords (e.g., "google docs work") for precise targeting.
  - **Domain Search**: Type a domain (like `github.com`) to instantly filter tabs and bookmarks from specific sources.
  - **Smart Highlighting**: Real-time highlighting of matched keywords keeps your visual focus clear.
  
  ### 🗂️ Unified Workspace
  - **Vertical Tabs**: View full page titles, no longer compressed into tiny icons.
  - **Native Group Support**: Perfectly integrates with Chrome Tab Groups, syncing colors and names.
  - **Custom Window Naming**: Assign custom names to your windows (e.g., "Work", "Personal") for clearer context.
  - **Drag & Drop**: Intuitive management—move items effortlessly between tabs, groups, and bookmark folders.
  - **Drag to Save**: Drag a tab into the bookmarks area to save it instantly; drag a bookmark to the tabs area to open it.
  - **Reading List & RSS**: Your personal hub for article curation. Sync with the native Chrome Reading List, subscribe to RSS feeds, and manage everything in one place with smart deduplication and sorting.
  
  ### 🎨 Premium Design & Customization
  - **Custom Background Image**: Personalize your workspace! Upload your own image or use a URL. Fine-tune it with adjustable **opacity** and **blur** for the perfect look.
  - **Revamped Settings UI**: Enjoy a modern, organized settings panel with a new **Accordion layout**, making it easier than ever to configure your sidebar.
  - **Custom Theme Colors**: Go beyond presets. You now have full control over the main background, accent, and text colors.
  - **Focus Mode**: A sleek dark theme with carefully tuned contrast to reduce eye strain.
  - **Auto-Expand**: Hover over folders while dragging items to automatically expand the path.
  - **Smart Hover**: Action buttons appear only when needed, keeping the interface clean and distraction-free.
  
  ---
  
  ## ⌨️ Full Keyboard Navigation & Shortcuts
  - **Native Experience**: Use `Arrow Up`/`Arrow Down` keys to navigate seamlessly between tabs and bookmarks.
  - **Micro-Interactions**: Use `Arrow Left`/`Arrow Right` to navigate and trigger internal buttons (like Close, Add to Group).
  - **Productivity Shortcuts**:
      - `F2`: Instantly rename any tab or bookmark.
      - `Delete`: Quickly remove unwanted items.
      - `Cmd/Ctrl + I`: Toggle Sidebar.
      - `Opt/Alt + T`: Create a new tab next to the current one.
  - **Search Integration**: Press `Up` at the top of the list to focus the search bar; press `Down` in the search bar to jump to results.
  - **Focus Tip**: Once the sidebar is open, simply press any arrow key to automatically grab focus and start navigating.
  
  
  ---
  
  ## Privacy & Security
  We value your privacy. This extension operates **completely offline**. Your bookmarks, browsing history, and tab information are **NEVER** uploaded to any server.
  
  ---
  
  **Install now and upgrade your Chrome to a productivity beast! 🌟**
  
  ---
  
  ## Open Source & Community
  This is an open source project. If you are interested in contributing, please visit our GitHub repository:
  https://github.com/Tai-ch0802/arc-like-chrome-extension

• Jun 7, 2026
  short_description

  A Chrome extension that mimics the vertical tabs of the Arc browser.

  Arc-style sidebar: tabs, bookmarks & reading list + local AI (grouping, cleanup, summary, search), Workspaces. No API key.

• Jun 7, 2026
  permissions

  tabs, sidePanel, bookmarks, tabGroups, storage, readingList, alarms, offscreen, scripting

  tabs, sidePanel, bookmarks, tabGroups, storage, readingList, alarms, offscreen, scripting, identity

Permissions & access

Permissions

tabssidePanelbookmarkstabGroupsstoragereadingListalarmsoffscreenscriptingidentity

Host access

*://*/*

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