Synapse

Tracking since Apr 18, 2026.

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• Apr 28, 2026
  description

  Synapse replaces your default New Tab with a clean, keyboard-first dashboard—and gives you a matching slide-out sidebar on every page. Organize shortcuts in folders, search instantly, launch any URL with a click or a key, and keep your AI prompts and Quick Access tiles in sync between the New Tab and the sidebar.
  
  What you can do...
  • New Tab, upgraded: Store shortcuts in folders, search across folders/shortcuts, and launch anything instantly.
  • Sidebar everywhere: A slide-out sidebar mirrors your data, so your Quick Access tiles and AI Prompt Library are available on any website.
  • Quick Access (6 tiles): Pin your six most-used links or tools—launchable from the New Tab or the sidebar.
  • AI Prompt Library: Save, organize, and reuse prompts; paste them directly into any AI chat. It’s vendor-agnostic, so you can switch models/sites without rebuilding your library.
  • Keyboard everything: Navigate shortcuts, folders, and the prompt library entirely by keyboard—plus define global shortcuts that open any URL.
  • Customize your space: Tune colors, spacing, and layout to fit your workflow.
  • Import/Export: Bring in bookmarks and export your setup when you need to move fast or back things up.
  
  Why it’s different...
  • Keyboard-first flow: Stop hunting through bookmarks—press, launch, done.
  • One brain, two surfaces: The New Tab and sidebar stay in sync (Shortcuts, Quick Access, Prompts).
  • Keeps it simple: Designed to be fast, focused, and distraction-free.
  • Paste-to-chat: No more copy/pasting prompts - instantly paste your prompts into any AI chat with a single click.
  
  Getting started:
  1. Install Synapse (it will set the New Tab page).
  2. Open the New Tab → add folders, shortcuts, and your Quick Access tiles.
  3. Open the sidebar to use everything on any page.
  4. Set global keyboard shortcuts at chrome://extensions/shortcuts.
  5. Add prompts to the AI Prompt Library and paste them directly into your AI chats on any site.
  6. (Optional) Import bookmarks or export your setup.
  
  Permissions (what and why)
  • New Tab override: to provide the customizable Synapse dashboard.
  • Storage: to save your folders, shortcuts, Quick Access, and prompts locally in the browser.
  • Commands (keyboard): to let you trigger global URL shortcuts.
  
  Support & feedback
  Questions, ideas, or issues? Visit our help page (Support URL below).

  Synapse is a browser workspace.
  
  It keeps the same working surface available in two places: a customizable New Tab and a live sidebar on normal web pages. That lets you keep launch tools, saved links, prompts, and page context close while you work instead of rebuilding the same setup across tabs.
  
  What Synapse does
  
  - Turn Chrome New Tab into a customizable workspace for search, launch, saved links, and reusable prompts
  - Keep a live sidebar open on normal pages so your tools stay beside the source material
  - Organize links into groups, folders, and shortcuts
  - Launch favorite destinations quickly from Quick Access
  - Search the web and your Synapse library from one place
  - Save the current tab or all tabs into Synapse
  - Reuse prompts without keeping them scattered across notes and chats
  - Transform live page or video context into reusable output while the source stays open
  - Send that output into the next step faster, including AI chat workflows when the user chooses them
  
  Why these features belong together
  
  - One workspace across two surfaces: the New Tab is the workspace home, and the sidebar keeps that same workspace available on live pages
  - Capture to next step in one flow: saved links, prompts, search, and page-context tools all support the same job of moving from source material to action
  - Reuse instead of restart: Synapse keeps prompts, launch paths, and saved context available so repeat work takes fewer steps
  - Real browser utility: the product stays useful while you are already on the page that matters
  - Local-first posture where possible: core workspace data stays local unless the user chooses optional connected workflows
  
  Good fit for
  
  - people who work out of Chrome all day
  - users who want one browser workspace instead of separate launch, prompt, and context tools
  - research-heavy and AI-assisted workflows where the source page needs to stay visible
  - users who want to organize, transform, and reuse work without losing context
  
  Permissions and why they exist
  
  Synapse requests permissions that map to shipped workspace features such as the custom New Tab, saved settings, keyboard shortcuts, sidebar behavior, search sources, save flows, and optional connected integrations.
  
  See the support, privacy, and security pages on synapsetools.co for current public-facing product information.

• Apr 28, 2026
  short_description

  A customizable New Tab/Sidebar with folders, Quick Access tiles, an AI prompt library, and global shortcuts to launch any URL fast.

  A browser workspace with a customizable new tab, live sidebar, reusable prompts, quick launch, and page context tools.

• Apr 28, 2026
  permissions

  storage, tabs, notifications, favicon, bookmarks, history, contextMenus, search

  storage, tabs, tabGroups, alarms, notifications, favicon, bookmarks, history, contextMenus, search, identity, geolocation, nativeMessaging

Permissions & access

Permissions

storagetabstabGroupsalarmsnotificationsfaviconbookmarkshistorycontextMenussearchidentitygeolocationnativeMessaging

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