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Operations
Turn every new tab into your personal dashboard
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Turn every new tab into your personal dashboard
114 followers
Most new tab extensions show you the weather. Operations shows you your work. Projects with their links and notes in one card, a browsable bookmark library, a vault for snippets and tokens, a Pomodoro timer, a water tracker. Five themes to match your taste, with a theme generator and custom layouts on the way. Everything lives in your browser, nothing on our servers. Built by two indie makers from the Netherlands who needed it themselves.
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Hi @curiouskitty thanks for taking the time looking at Operations. To answer your question:
The breaking point we see most isn't speed or sync trust, it's "bookmarks don't match how I think." People organise bookmarks by topic ("News", "Tools", "Articles") but work by project ("Client X redesign", "side project Y"). The mismatch means you eventually stop opening the bookmark menu, because what you need is never neatly there. Sync trust comes up too, Operations is local-first for that exact reason, but it tends to be downstream of the organisation problem.
That's why we built around project cards instead of folders. Each card is a project with its own links, notes, todos. When you sit down to work on Project X, everything for Project X is one click away, instead of buried under a generic "Tools" folder shared with everything else you've ever saved.
On the switch moment specifically:
- Import: we pull from Chrome bookmarks directly: one-click during onboarding, no manual re-saving. The honest follow-up: most people import everything and then realise 80% of their library is dead weight. So the bookmark library is built around pruning as you go, not "import once and done."
- Setup: projects are built manually: there's no existing "project" structure to migrate from, you're defining how you actually work. That manual moment is intentional.
- Graveyard relapse: project cards have natural lifespans (project ends → archive the card). Bookmarks have no scope, they accumulate forever. With cards, the unit of organisation matches the unit of work, which seems to be what keeps things from rotting.
What made you ask? In the middle of a switch right now, or evaluating one?
Love the "ambient accountability" idea turning a reflexive action (opening a new tab) into a moment of intentional awareness. I've noticed the products that actually change behavior are the ones that insert themselves into existing habits rather than asking you to build new ones. Does this sync with any external goal or habit trackers, or is it self-contained?
Hi @sagar_kalra1 ,
You've named it better than we have. Products that insert into existing habits beat products that ask you to build new ones, every time. That's the whole reason this works. Opening Chrome is already a reflex, we're just changing what's on the other side of the click.
Self-contained today, you're right. Pomodoro and hydration are the only tracking-style features built in. That said, if there's demand for a habit tracking module inside Operations, we're absolutely open to building it. Pomodoro and hydration started exactly that way, as small things I wanted to nudge gently in the same surface. A habit tracker fits the pattern.
What would the ideal version look like for you? Daily check-ins, streak visualisation, longer-form reflection, something else?
Sounds mad cool, I'll give it a try. Is it Chrome only?
@nair0 Thanks man, for now it is Chrome only but we can port it to Firefox very quick if needed!
@nair0 what browser are you using?
In the age of "ADHD brain", this feels genuinely helpful in getting work done and avoiding unnecessary distractions. Especially as a fellow founder, I end up spending a lot of time opening a tab to do one thing and then seeing all these news popup, social feeds, etc that take my attention away.
@joe_setpoint That "open Chrome to do one thing, leave 20 minutes later having scrolled" loop is exactly what pushed us to build it. We put the news feed on the new tab page on purpose, gives the feed-itch one contained space instead of letting it ambush you mid-task.
Won't fix attention, nothing will. But shrinking the surface area turned out to matter more than I expected.
What's the worst offender for you?
Kanwas
super cool! feels like a super power to run tabs like this!!!
@johancutych Thanks Johan! It really is, there is so much more clarity going on during my days working with Operations! Feel free to try it out!
@johancutych <3 let us know if you are missing anything!
Looks really sleek and exactly the kind of per-project view that I wanted
@martin_zokov Thank you Martin, really like to get your feedback!
@martin_zokov whoopp, have fun while using it!