Tycana New Tab

About

Tycana New Tab replaces your new tab page with a quiet, intelligent view of your day. Every time you pause between tasks, you see exactly where you stand — not a dashboard full of widgets, just honest information about your work.

What you see

Your new tab shows:

- A time-aware greeting and today's date
- Quick capture input — type a thought, hit enter, it's saved with AI-inferred due dates and effort
- Overdue items that need attention
- Today's focus with a progress bar
- This week's upcoming work
- Behavioral insights computed from your task history — patterns like deadline slip rates, energy peaks by day of week, and backlog trends
- At-a-glance stats — active items, recent completions, weekly velocity
- Items captured via email
- A direct link to chat with Tycana

What makes this different

Most new tab extensions show you a to-do list or an inspirational quote. Tycana's new tab shows computed behavioral intelligence — observations grounded in weeks of structured task data that update as your day unfolds.

"About a third of your deadlines slip."
"Your deep work peaks on Fridays."
"You're capturing faster than completing. The list is growing."

These insights require a data model and intelligence layer that no other new tab extension has. They're not AI-generated motivation — they're patterns computed from your actual work history.

How it works

- Requires a Tycana account (https://app.tycana.ai)
- Connect with your API token in the extension settings
- Data refreshes every time you open a new tab (cached for 2 minutes)
- Quick capture uses AI to infer due dates, effort level, and project from natural language

Design principles

- Calm. No notifications, no red badges, no guilt.
- Ambient. You open new tabs 20-50 times a day. The information is just there.
- Fresh. Complete a task, open a tab — it reflects the change.
- Minimal. Scannable in 2 seconds.

Permissions

- Storage: saves your API token and caches the last response locally
- Host access to app.tycana.ai: fetches your data from the Tycana API

No tracking, no analytics, no data collection beyond what's needed to show your tasks.