Urlist

About

═══ Why install Urlist ═══

  Address-bar autocomplete is unreliable. You bookmark a site, six months later you're scrolling through 400 bookmarks looking for it. You switch machines and your bookmarks scatter. The "new tab" page in Chrome is wasted real estate.

  Urlist fixes this with two ideas:

  1) Short aliases instead of typing URLs. Assign "gh" to GitHub. From now on, every new tab, you type:

       gh anthropic        →  github.com/anthropic
       npm lodash          →  npmjs.com/package/lodash
       tr en zh hello      →  Google Translate, EN→ZH, "hello"

     No autocomplete, no fuzzy matching, no typos — just a deterministic 2-to-3-keystroke shortcut. Use #:1 / #:2 / #:3 placeholders in your URL to thread arguments through; Urlist URL-encodes them automatically. Aliases double as quick search launchers for Google, Wikipedia, npm, the AWS console, anything URL-shaped.

  2) A Launchpad-style new tab page. The aliases also live as draggable icons in a paged grid you can reorder, group into folders, and split across multiple "desktops" — so you don't have to remember an alias the first time you use it. It's the keyboard speed of the command line plus the visual organization of a bookmarks bar, on the page you already see most.

  ═══ Highlights ═══

    • 7×4 desktop grid, responsive 4-column mobile layout
    • Drag to reorder, drop onto another icon to merge into a folder, drag to the right edge to create a new desktop page
    • Icons auto-fetched in parallel from multiple favicon services; one-click letter tile + 12 preset colors as a fallback; upload your own image (≤ 512 KB)
    • Right-click any icon to open in a new tab, edit, hide, or delete; right-click a folder to dissolve it
    • One-click JSON import / export, two-way conversion with the Chrome bookmarks bar, separate layout export
    • Multi-device sync via your own Google Drive's hidden app-data folder — coming in a future version once OAuth verification clears

  ═══ Privacy and data ownership ═══

  Everything lives in chrome.storage.local on your own device. No analytics, no telemetry, no tracking, no remote server, no account required. Your aliases are exportable as plain JSON at any time — they belong to you, not us.

  ═══ Who it's for ═══

  Anyone who visits the same handful of sites every day and wants to open them in 2–3 keystrokes, has 100+ bookmarks and can't find anything, wants a clean new tab that doesn't show ads or "background of the day", and cares about owning their data rather than trusting a third-party launcher service.

  Install it once, take five minutes to assign aliases to the ten URLs you visit most. You'll save those five minutes back every day.