Homebase

About

Homebase turns Chrome's new tab into your personal dashboard - a calm, drag-and-drop grid of widgets you arrange exactly the way you want.

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WIDGETS
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• Clock & greeting - time, date, personal greeting
• Calendar - offline monthly calendar
• Weather - current conditions + 3-day forecast (no sign-up)
• Air quality - live AQI + PM2.5/PM10 for your location
• World clocks - search any city, track multiple timezones
• Todos - quick checklist
• Notes - persistent scratchpad
• Quick Links - curated tiles with auto-fetched favicons
• Browser history - recently visited pages
• Reading list - Chrome reading list
• Downloads - recent downloads with clear-all
• News - filter by Tech, AI, Sports, Politics, World, Science, Business, Gaming, Movies, Local, India
• Unit converter - length, weight, temperature, volume, speed, time
• Currency converter - live exchange rates
• Dictionary - English word definitions

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DESIGN YOUR DASHBOARD
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• Drag-and-drop grid with responsive breakpoints
• Per-widget size presets (S / M / L / XL)
• Multiple themes
• Command palette (⌘K / Ctrl+K) for adding widgets and switching themes
• Focus mode (F) - quiet everything when you need to concentrate
• Settings sync across your devices via Chrome sync

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PRIVACY FIRST
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• No accounts, no sign-ups
• No telemetry or analytics
• No third-party trackers
• Your data never leaves your device (except to public, no-auth APIs your chosen widgets call: Open-Meteo for weather, Reddit and Hacker News for news, Frankfurter for currency, dictionaryapi.dev for definitions)
• Open source: https://github.com/ashwyn222/homebase
• Privacy policy: https://ashwyn222.github.io/homebase/privacy-policy.html

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KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
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⌘K / Ctrl+K - Command palette
E - Toggle customize mode
F - Toggle focus mode
Esc - Close dialog

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WHY HOMEBASE?
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Most new-tab extensions either do too much (tracking, bloated features, ads) or too little (a static image). Homebase is the middle ground: a warm, personal start screen with the utilities you actually use, all local, all customizable, and none of the cruft.