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Every new tab becomes a search box for everything you've saved.

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5 links

  • Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipecooking.nytimes.com#recipes#baking
  • Recipes · Budget Bytesbudgetbytes.com#recipes#cooking
  • Golden Gate National Recreation Areanps.gov#travel#sf#outdoors
  • The Food Lab · Serious Eatsseriouseats.com#recipes#cooking
  • Classic Sourdough Breadkingarthurbaking.com#recipes#baking

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Sound familiar?

You know you saved it. Somewhere.

Otlet lets you search instead of remembering where.

Otlet's new tab: a greeting, one search box for the web and your bookmarks, pinned tags and saved searches, your most used sites, recently saved links and an old link to rediscover, over a painting of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Find

Type three letters. There it is.

Titles, addresses, notes and tags, searched as you type.

Organize

Folders made you choose. Tags don’t.

One link, as many tags as it needs. Browse by tag, Inbox or list.

Save

Save it, then close the tab.

⌘⇧S on any page. Tag it, or let it wait in the Inbox.

Search the web too

Bookmarks and the web, one box.

Your favorite search engine, with your bookmarks right there.

Why switch

Same bookmarks. Less hunting.

FoldersOtlet
Find a link
With folders: Dig through folders
With Otlet: Type three letters
Save a page
With folders: Pick a folder, every time
With Otlet: ⌘⇧S, tag it or don’t
A link about two things
With folders: Lives in one folder
With Otlet: As many tags as it needs
Old saves
With folders: Forgotten
With Otlet: Brought back to rediscover

How it works

Set up in a minute.

  1. 1

    Add to Chrome

    Free. No sign-up needed.

  2. 2

    Import your bookmarks

    One click. Folders become #tags.

  3. 3

    Open a new tab

    Type. Find. Done.

Free and private

Your bookmarks stay yours.

  • Stored on your computer
  • No ads or tracking in Otlet
  • Works without an account
  • Crash reports only if you turn them on
Read the privacy policy

Questions

Before you install.

Anything else? hello@otlet.page

Is Otlet free?

Yes. Everything Otlet does today is free, with no ads.

Will it change my browser’s bookmarks?

No. Importing copies them, and Otlet never changes or deletes your browser’s bookmarks. New ones you add with ⌘D or Ctrl+D show up in Otlet’s Inbox too.

Where are my bookmarks kept?

In your browser, on your computer. Nothing is copied to a server.

Can I use it on more than one computer?

There’s no sync yet. Export your library as a file (Settings → Import & export) and import it on the other computer.

What happens if I uninstall it?

Your browser deletes Otlet’s library with it, so export it first if you want to keep it. Your browser’s own bookmarks aren’t touched.

Which browsers does it work in?

Chrome, Brave, Edge, Helium and other browsers that install from the Chrome Web Store. Not Firefox or Safari yet.

Does it replace my new tab page?

Yes, that’s where it lives, and it still searches the web. If Chrome asks whether you meant to change your new tab page, keep the change. Some browsers, like Aside, keep new tabs for their own page: there, click Otlet’s toolbar button on a new tab, or turn on “Otlet on every new tab” in Otlet’s settings, to have Otlet open instead.

Can I hide the bar Chrome adds at the bottom of the new tab?

Yes. Chrome adds it to every new tab page that comes from an extension, and only you can turn it off: right-click it and choose “Hide footer on New Tab page”, or open Customize Chrome and turn off “Show footer on New tab page”.

Can I bring bookmarks from another app?

Yes: HTML exports from Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Pinboard, Raindrop or Pocket, and JSON from Anybox or Pinboard. Duplicates merge.

What does it need permission for?

Your bookmarks (to import them and catch new ones), your most visited sites, and the page you’re on when you save it. History and site access are asked for only if you turn on suggestions or link previews, and in browsers like Aside, which keep new tabs for their own page, access to see which tabs are new, only if you want Otlet there.

Why “Otlet”

A search service, decades before the web.

Around 1910, Paul Otlet answered people's questions from millions of index cards. Otlet does the same for everything you've saved.

Everything you've saved, one search away.

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