Re-newtab is a redesigned, productive and pragmatic Chrome newtab alternative. Thank you for your use!
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Help
Press ? or click here to see quick search and other keyboard shortcuts. Click here to see basic wizard.
Tips
Global:
The left navigation can collapse to increase the main space.
Change themes in settings to suit your needs.
You can use button or keyboard shortcut s to view the backgroud photo. When background photo displayed, you can still use quick search function.
There are many keyboard shortcuts, especially for quick search and bookmarks manager.
Widgets:
Add or remove home widgets to suit your needs.
Some types of widgets can add more than one instance. For example, each clock with a different time zone.
Widgets can adjust position by drag and drop.
Widgets can change color and title in the menu.
Some widgets have special settings in the menu.
You can save space by collapsing widgets that you don't use often.
Bookmarks:
You can add frequently visited websites to bookmarks bar even if these websites only use one week for your tasks, clear bookmarks that you no longer use. Bookmarks widget and manager can boost your productivity.
Bookmarks manager supports context menu, drag and drop, keyboard shortcuts and multi select.
If you want to replace default chrome bookmarks manager(chrome://bookmarks) with re-newtab's bookmarks manager, you can install Finder Bookmarks extension.
If you use this extension's bookmarks bar widget, you can hide Chrome's bookmarks bar by click the Chrome menu on the top right -> "Bookmarks" -> "Show Bookmarks Bar".
Ohter Panels
Searching for bookmarks or browsing history and launch it by quick search is very productive.
You can use context menu to manage Chrome apps.
You can search browsing history by custom start and end time in history manager.
History and download manager can clear all items through the upper left menu or delete individual items by click 'x'.
If you want to replace default chrome history manager(chrome://history) with re-newtab's history manager, you can install Simple History Manager extension.
Column Number:
The home panel may be 2, 3 or 4 columns, depending on the pixel width of the browser window. Therefore, it is also related to the resolution of the display, such as 3 columns on the 1280x800 screen and 4 columns on the 1920x1080. This way each column is neither too wide nor too narrow.
The widget layouts for different column numbers are saved independently (layout2, layout3, layout4).
When adding or removing a widget, this widget will be added or removed in all layouts(layout2, layout3, layout4).
However, when dragging the widget to adjust the position, the new layout will only be saved to the current layout (such as layout3), and will not affect other layouts (such as layout2 and layout4).
Feedback
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Privacy
For basic features and non-login user, Re-newtab does not collect or store your personal data on our server. It only uses Chrome internal data locally(in the browser) like bookmarks, apps, downloads, history, etc. Status information is saved locally. It may loads website's favicons from these external sites. Settings of this extension are syncd by the internal mechanism of Chrome extensions.
For login user, we only use your basic profiles(e.g. name and email address) for this extension.
For Google Drive and Google Calendar widgets, it gets your data from your browser directly. It may cache some data locally in your browser, it doesn't store your data on our server.
For Google translate widget, it doesn't record translate contents, it only records the amount of usage.
For Todo and Notepad widgets, it only stores widget data on our server when cloud mode is enabled, and changing to local mode will delete cloud data.