Nook Tab

Tracking since Apr 24, 2026.

Changelog

• May 1, 2026
  description

  A calm, minimal new tab for Chrome.
  
  Nook Tab replaces the default new tab with a full-screen daily wallpaper and a quiet set of tools that stay out of your way:
  
  • Daily wallpaper: a new hand-picked nature photo each day, drawn from 120 bundled images by photographers on Unsplash and Pexels. Nothing is downloaded at runtime.
  
  • Clock and greeting: a large, readable clock (12h or 24h). Add your name for a subtle personal greeting.
  
  • Weather: current temperature and conditions for your city and country, via Open-Meteo. Toggle °C or °F.
  
  • Search: start typing from anywhere on the page. Results use whatever search engine you've already set as default in Chrome, via the Chrome Search API. Voice search uses Chrome's built-in speech API; Nook Tab never handles the audio itself.
  
  • Pomodoro: a focus timer that dims the wallpaper, chimes softly between phases, and stays in sync across every open tab.
  
  • Sticky notes: drag them anywhere, resize, pick a color, edit in place. Stored only on your device.
  
  • Ambient audio: forest rain, ocean waves, waterfall, or a forest river. Loops quietly in the background.
  
  About privacy:
  • No account, no login, no cross-device sync
  • No analytics, no crash reporting, no tracking, no ads
  • Only two network calls ever leave your browser: geojs.io for coarse city lookup (at most once a week) and api.open-meteo.com for current weather (at most every 30 minutes)
  • All preferences live in your browser's local storage. Uninstall and they are gone.
  
  Full privacy policy: https://arunbrahma.com/nook-tab-site/privacy

  Open a new tab. Take a breath.
  
  Nook Tab quietly replaces Chrome's default new tab with a full-screen nature photograph, a soft clock, today's weather, and the few tools you actually use during the day. Everything else stays out of the way.
  
  No dashboards screaming at you. No "good morning, user" pop-ups. No grid of tiny logos. Just one beautiful place to start, a thousand times a day.
  
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  What you get
  
  🌄 A new wallpaper every day
  One hand-picked landscape from Unsplash and Pexels, rotated daily. If you love today's picture, sit with it. If you don't, tomorrow brings another. Two backup photos ship inside the extension, so even offline or on a first launch the tab is never blank.
  
  🕐 A clock that just tells the time
  Big, readable, 12h or 24h. Add your name and it'll say hello. That's it.
  
  ☀️ Weather, without the ceremony
  Your approximate city and current conditions, quietly pinned to the corner. No account to make, no location prompt to dismiss. Toggle °C or °F in settings.
  
  🔎 Search using YOUR search engine
  Type anything and hit Enter. Google, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Kagi, whatever you've already chosen as Chrome's default. Nook Tab doesn't pick for you and doesn't phone anyone on the way. Tap the mic for voice search.
  
  ⏲️ A Pomodoro that actually works the way you do
  25 minutes of focus, 5 minutes of break, a longer break every fourth cycle. All three durations are yours to change. Start one in this tab and every other open new tab falls into focus mode with you: wallpaper dims, UI fades, a small amber pill shows the time. Click it to pause. Deeply satisfying.
  
  📝 Sticky notes you can fling around
  Drag, drop, resize, edit. Four quiet colors (pale yellow, pink, mint, sky). Every note survives restarts and syncs between tabs the moment you type.
  
  🎧 Four nature loops
  Forest Rain. Ocean Waves. Forest River. Waterfall. One tap and the room has weather. Volume, track, and play state remember themselves and stay in step across tabs.
  
  ✨ Liquid Glass everywhere
  Backdrop blur, hairline borders, that soft inner sheen on every panel. It's the interface equivalent of a nice pen.
  
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  What is NOT happening
  
  No account. No login. No cross-device sync.
  No analytics. No crash reporting. No "anonymous usage data."
  No ads. No affiliate links. No tracking pixels. No fingerprinting.
  No AI chatbot. No trending headlines. No bookmarks grid.
  Nothing you do in Nook Tab is sent to the developer. Ever.
  
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  What DOES leave your browser, and why
  
  Five things, all of them obvious, none of them secret.
  
  1. Once a week at most, your public IP goes to geojs.io so the weather pill knows which city to name.
  2. Up to twice an hour, those coordinates go to Open-Meteo for the current temperature and weather code. No account, no cookies.
  3. If, and only if, you press the mic button, Chrome's built-in Web Speech API streams your audio to Google for transcription and hands back the text. Nook Tab never touches the audio.
  4. Hitting Enter on a search hands the query to Chrome's own Search API using whatever engine you already use. Nothing detours through the developer.
  5. Wallpaper photos and the four audio loops stream on first play from jsDelivr (a public open-source CDN). Your browser caches each one forever after, so later opens are instant and offline-friendly.
  
  Every preference (your name, notes, timer state, cached weather, last played track) lives in your browser's local storage. Uninstall the extension and every byte of it disappears with it.
  
  Full privacy policy: https://arunbrahma.com/nook-tab-site/privacy

• May 1, 2026
  host_permissions

  https://api.open-meteo.com/*, https://get.geojs.io/*

  https://api.open-meteo.com/*, https://get.geojs.io/*, https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/iamarunbrahma/nook-tab-site/*

Permissions & access

Permissions

storagesearch

Host access

https://api.open-meteo.com/*, https://get.geojs.io/*, https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/iamarunbrahma/nook-tab-site/*

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