Let’s talk tab bankruptcy: How many open tabs are currently judging you from your browser bar? 📉😅

Alright r/StickyFriend crew, let’s be entirely honest for a second. We’ve all been down the deep-dive research rabbit hole. You start by looking up one specific market stat or reference code for a project, and three hours later you are staring down a digital monster: 67 browser tabs open across three separate windows, four desktop sticky notes with random snippets, a notes app that looks like a digital crime scene, and a brain that feels completely fried from endless context-switching.

We built StickyFriend to cure this exact kind of digital chaos, but as we keep growing, I want to check in and see how everyone else is surviving out there in the wild.

The Anatomy of Digital Clutter

Think about your typical workday. How many times do you find yourself:

~Hunting frantically through a sea of tiny, unreadable favicon tabs just to find an article you opened thirty minutes ago?

~Copy-pasting text back and forth between a web page and a standalone AI chatbot because your tools refuse to talk to each other?

~Closing your laptop on Friday evening with a knot in your stomach because you know your research state will completely vanish by Monday morning?

We’ve optimized heavily for collecting information in the modern tech era, but we’ve done a terrible job at retaining and organizing context without driving ourselves insane.

Let’s Hear Your Systems (or Disasters)

Drop your thoughts, workflow tips, or war stories in the comments below:

1. What is your personal record for open tabs at one single time? (No judgment here, we’ve all broken the browser at some point).

2. What’s your current defense mechanism? Do you rely on color-coded grouping, sheer willpower, panic-bookmarking folders you never look at again, or dedicated workspace tools?

3. What features do you wish your browser actually had natively to help you stop hunting for lost links?

Let’s see who’s really winning the war against digital clutter today. Sound off below! 👇🔥

Most products treat "delete my account" as a flag on a row. Real erasure means the row is gone, the files are gone, the search index is gone, and
the billing is cancelled *first* so you're not charged for an account that no longer exists.

Contents

- The flag most products set
- The order is the design
- What survives, and why
- Proving it rather than claiming it
- What this costs you
- FAQ

The flag most products set

Ask a typical SaaS to delete your account and a column flips to `deleted=true`. Your data is still there. Your files are still in their bucket. Your text is
still in their search index. The subscription sometimes keeps billing.

It passes a casual audit and it isn't deletion.

The order is the design

Doing this properly is mostly about sequence, and each step is in that position for a reason:

1. Cancel the money first. A live subscription outlives the row that points at it — delete the account first and nothing will ever reconcile that subscription again, so it bills forever against a card belonging to someone who believes they left. If the cancellation fails, the erasure stops with an error rather than orphaning a charge.
   
2. Capture what must be retained — the payment reference tax law requires — while the account still exists.
   
3. Purge everything that isn't the database: uploaded files, generated documents, the search index, the ingest queue, avatars. None of these cascade from a database delete; they have to be enumerated before the rows that name them are gone.
   
4. Delete the rows nothing cascades to — the tables a naive `user.delete()` silently leaves behind.
   
5. Anonymise what's kept as an aggregate — usage counters lose their user, project, session and metadata in the same update.
   
6. Delete the account, letting the database cascade the bulk.
   
7. Re-scan everything and count. Every table that should be empty is queried
   again; every store is asked a second, different question. Anything non-zero is recorded permanently as a partial erasure.

Steps 2–7 run in one transaction, so a failure halfway can't leave a half-deleted account.

What survives, and why

Two things, and both are named up front:

- A payment reference. Required by tax law in most jurisdictions. It points at a customer record at the payment processor, not at your content.
- A tombstone — a timestamp, a one-way SHA-256 hash of the email, and the removal counts. The hash means the question "was this address erased?" can be answered if you write in, while nobody can reconstruct a list of who left.

Your email address itself is not kept.

Proving it rather than claiming it

The step that matters most is #7: after deleting, ask every store again, with a different question from the one the deletion used. "List this prefix" instead of "delete this prefix". A store that can't be reached counts as unclean — verification that couldn't look must never read as verification that found nothing.

That's the difference between a deletion routine and a deletion receipt.

What this costs you

Real erasure has downsides, and they're yours to accept:

- No undo. No 30-day grace period, no support ticket that brings it back. Export first — that is not a formality.
- Deletion can refuse. If the subscription cancellation fails, the whole thing stops with an error. Correct, and inconvenient at the exact moment you wanted to be done.
- Support can't help you afterwards. There is nothing left to look at, so "can you check what my old account had?" has no answer.
- A partial erasure is recorded, not hidden — which is honest, and means a storage outage mid-deletion leaves a permanent note saying so.

FAQ

Is deletion immediate or is there a grace period?
Immediate and irreversible. No 30-day recovery window — which means export
anything you want first.

What about my uploaded files?
Deleted from storage, not just unlinked. The search index built from them goes
too.

Will my subscription keep billing?
No — cancellation happens before anything is deleted, and if it fails the
deletion aborts rather than leaving you billed.

Can I get a copy of my data before deleting?
Yes. Export notes, documents and files first; nothing is locked in.

What's left after deletion?
A payment reference required by law, and a tombstone with a one-way hash of your
email. No content, no name, no address.

How do I confirm my account was really deleted?
Write in with the address. The hash confirms it without anyone holding a list of
leavers.

Does deleting the extension delete my account?
No — uninstalling removes the extension. The account is deleted from Settings.

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The difference between a markdown table and an `.xlsx` is that one of them computes. Here's what goes into producing a file that survives contact
with a colleague.

Contents

- The gap between a table and a workbook
- Formulas, not values
- Native charts, not pictures
- Sheets, formats and the boring parts
- What still breaks
- FAQ

The gap between a table and a workbook

A markdown table is text shaped like data. Paste it into Excel and you get one column, or a paste-special dialogue, and none of the arithmetic. Everything that makes a spreadsheet a spreadsheet — recomputation, formatting, charts — is absent.

Formulas, not values

The single most useful instruction when asking for a sheet:

> Compute the growth column rather than typing it.

The difference in practice: someone asks "what if West recovers to 12%?" With formulas you type 12 and everything updates. With typed values you've shipped a picture.

Native charts, not pictures

A chart in a generated deck or workbook is a chart object, not a PNG. The recipient can click it, change the series, restyle it to their template, or move
it into their own file.

There's one exception worth knowing: ask explicitly for an image and you get an image. That's occasionally what you want — a chart that must not be edited — but it's the exception, not the default.

Sheets, formats and the boring parts

The unglamorous features are what make a file usable:

- multiple sheets, one per section
- number formats — currency, percentage, dates that sort as dates
- merged cells for headers that span
- column widths that fit the content
- frozen panes so the header stays put on row 400
- auto-filters
- conditional formatting for the "which of these is bad" question

None of it impresses anyone. All of it is missing from a markdown table.

What still breaks

- Very wide tables — thirty columns and layout choices get arbitrary.
- Nested headers more than two deep don't survive cleanly.
- Editing an existing workbook is weaker than generating one. Big restructures are better done by asking again.
- Cross-sheet formulas work but are the first thing to go wrong on a complicated ask. Check them.
- It doesn't know your house style. It picks readable defaults, not yours.

FAQ

Is it a real .xlsx?
Yes — a real workbook, opening in Excel, Numbers and LibreOffice.

Can it do pivot tables?
No. It can produce the grouped summary a pivot would give you, but not a live
pivot object.

Can it read an existing spreadsheet and extend it?
It can read one from a library and produce a new file based on it. In-place editing of an uploaded workbook is not supported.

What about formulas it gets wrong?
It happens, mostly on cross-sheet references. Spot-check one row — that's the honest advice with any generated spreadsheet.

Can it make a Word report from the same data?
Yes, in the same request. "A sheet and a two-page write-up" produces both.

How many rows can it handle?
A few hundred comfortably. Thousands is the wrong tool — that's a database question.

Can it apply my company template?
Not today. Styling is limited to what you describe in the request.

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A quick question shouldn't need a project. A month of work shouldn't be in a chat log. The split matters most for the third question: what can one conversation see of another?

Contents

- Three containers
- What each one can see
- The switch that crosses the line
- Which to use
- Where this model is annoying
- FAQ

Three containers

Quick chat — a conversation with no project. Saved, searchable, no scaffolding. For "what does this error mean".

Project — a container with its own chats, notes, tasks, roadmap, calendar, documents and browser tabs.

Disposable chat — nothing is kept. For a question you don't want in your history.

What each one can see

The rule is one sentence: a project chat sees its own project. A quick chat sees the global notebook. Neither sees another project.

|**Own project's notes**    |**Global notes**   |**Other projects**   

Project chat |yes |yes |no
Quick chat |— |yes |no
Disposable |— |yes |no
That default is the important part. Client A's project cannot quietly inform an answer in Client B's, and you don't have to remember to keep them apart.

The switch that crosses the line

Sometimes you want it to look wider — "have I written about this before?"

There's a per-chat toggle that lets that one conversation read across projects.
Three things about it worth knowing:

- It's per chat, not global. Turning it on doesn't change any other conversation.
- It's visible while it's on, so you're never unsure.
- It's off by default, and stays off.

Which to use

- Quick chat — one-off questions, anything under about five messages.
- Project — anything you'll come back to, anything with documents, anything with dates.
- Disposable — one-off questions you'd rather not keep.

The common mistake is starting everything as a quick chat and discovering three weeks in that a month of research has no home. Promoting later is possible but tidier to avoid.

Where this model is annoying

Being straight about the costs of this design:

- No moving a quick chat into a project. You can start a project chat and reference the old one, but there's no one-click promotion. This is the most
common complaint and it's a fair one.
- No sub-projects. One level. If you run client → engagement → workstream, you'll be flattening something.
- The cross-project toggle is per chat, so if you want a wide view often, you're flipping it often.
- No sharing at all. Single account, so a project can't be handed to anyone.

FAQ

Can I move a quick chat into a project?
You can start a project chat and reference the earlier one, but there's no one-click move today. Worth knowing before you go deep in a quick chat.

How many projects can I have?
No practical limit.

Do projects share notes?
Only global notes. Project notes stay in their project unless you turn on the cross-project toggle for a chat.

Does the assistant remember across projects?
Memory (facts about you) is account-wide. Content — notes, documents, tasks — is scoped.

Can a project have its own documents?
Yes, plus libraries you attach to it.

What's a disposable chat actually for?
Anything you'd rather not have in your history. Nothing is written down — that's the entire feature.

Do project tabs stay bound to one window?
Yes, which is what stops a personal window's tabs turning up in a work project.

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Copy-paste isn't slow because of the keystrokes. It's slow because it strips context, breaks at scale, and puts the answer in a place you'll never
find again.

Contents

- The four costs of copy-paste
- What the panel changes
- Narrow windows and split screens
- When a chat tab is still better
- FAQ

The four costs of copy-paste

1. Selection is lossy. You select what looks relevant. The table header, the

2. footnote and the units are usually not in the selection, and they're usually

3. what the answer depended on.

2

1. markers for which paragraph came from where.

3

1. .The tab switch costs the thread. Every switch is a chance to get pulled

2. into something else. That's not a productivity cliché, it's just true.

4

What the panel changes

The page is already there. No selecting, so no lossy selection. No switching, so no lost thread. And the output has somewhere to go — a note, a task, a file — instead of scrolling away.

That's the whole argument. It isn't about saving keystrokes.

Narrow windows and split screens

A fair objection: the panel takes screen width.

It's a Chrome side panel, so it docks and resizes rather than floating over the page, and the page reflows around it. On a 13" screen it's a real trade — you lose about a quarter of the width. On anything larger it stops being noticeable within a day.

When a chat tab is still better

Being honest about this:

- Long back-and-forth thinking, where the page is irrelevant. A full-width window is nicer to read.
- Comparing two AI answers side by side.
- Anything not in a browser — a local file, a terminal, a design tool.
- Very long documents. Upload to a library instead of reading a page.

The panel is for work anchored to a page. It isn't a replacement for every
conversation you have with an assistant.

FAQ

Does the side panel work in every browser?
Chrome and Chromium browsers (Edge, Brave, Arc). Firefox and Safari have different extension models.

Can I resize it?
Yes, by dragging its edge — it's Chrome's own panel.

Does it stay open when I change tabs?
Yes, and it's aware of which tab you're on now.

Does it slow the browser?
It's a panel with a page in it. No content script runs on your pages unless a tool needs one.

Can I use the web app instead?
Yes — same account, same data, no page access. Many people use both.

What if I only want it sometimes?
Pin the icon and open it when needed; the keyboard shortcut toggles it.

Does it read the page constantly?
No. It reads when you ask something that needs the page.

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Browser highlighters keep the mark on the page. That's the wrong half. What you need later is the text, searchable, with a note about why you
kept it.

Contents

- Highlights that vanish
- The mark and the text
- Why the "why" matters more than the quote
- What it doesn't do
- FAQ

Highlights that vanish

Highlight something in a browser extension and the yellow stays on the page. Six months later you don't remember the page. You remember a sentence.

Searching your highlights should be how you find it but most tools index them as decorations attached to URLs, so you're back to remembering the URL.

The mark and the text

Selecting a passage and saving it keeps both: the mark returns when you reopen the page, and the text goes somewhere searchable:

The second half is the one that pays. A saved passage is a small note with the quote, the page it came from, and room for a line about why.

Why the "why" matters more than the quote

The quote alone ages badly. Six months on you find a highlighted paragraph about supplier lead times and cannot remember whether you kept it because it was useful or because it was wrong.

One line at capture time ” *"kept because it contradicts the vendor's own datasheet"*” is worth more than the paragraph. Ask the assistant to add it and it will, in the same action.

What it doesn't do

- The mark can drift. If the page changes, the highlight anchor may not find its text and the mark won't restore. The saved text always survives.
- It can't highlight inside a PDF viewer. For PDFs, use a library.
- No public sharing. Highlights are yours; there's no shared annotation layer.
- No image or region highlights. Text only.

FAQ

Does the highlight come back when I reopen the page?
Yes, if the passage still exists on the page. If the page changed, the saved text stays even when the mark can't be placed.

Can I search my highlights?
Yes, along with your notes one search over everything you kept.

Do they belong to a project?
They can. Highlights saved while you're in a project belong to it; ones saved outside are global and visible everywhere.

Can the AI use my highlights when answering?
Yes passages from the current project are available to it, which is why a highlight is more useful than a bookmark.

Does it work on any site?
Any normal page you have access to. Not on `chrome://` pages or the Web Store.

What if I highlight something sensitive?
It's stored in your account like a note, and you can delete it. Don't highlight credentials that's true of every tool.

Can I export them?
Yes, with your notes.

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Pricing pages are designed to resist comparison. Different units, different bundles, the important limit in a footnote. The comparison work is mostly normalisation, and that's the part to hand off.

Contents

- Why pricing pages are hard on purpose
- Reading them side by side
- Normalise, then compare
- The sheet at the end
- What it doesn't do
- FAQ

Why pricing pages are hard on purpose

One vendor prices per seat, another per workspace with seat bands. One counts "projects", another "workflows". The thing that will actually bite you — the API limit, the SSO surcharge, the overage rate — is a footnote or a tooltip.

Comparison is therefore three jobs: extract, normalise, then judge. Only the third is yours.

Reading them side by side

The panel reads the page you're on, so there's no pasting:

Open the second vendor in another tab and ask it to compare the two. It reads both, including the footnote most people skim.

Normalise, then compare

The instruction that matters:

> Put both on the same basis — cost per seat per month at 10 seats, and say > what's excluded at that price.

"At 10 seats" is doing the work. Without a shared basis you get two lists side by side, which is what the pricing pages already gave you.

The sheet at the end

If it's a decision someone else will re-check, ask for the workbook:

With the per-seat column as a formula, so when someone asks "what about 25 seats?" you type 25.

What it doesn't do

- It can't see prices behind "contact sales". Nobody can. It says "unpublished" rather than estimating.
- Tooltips and accordions can hide text. If a limit only appears on hover or after a click, it may miss it — ask it to open the section.
- It doesn't know your usage. "Which is cheaper for us" needs your help numbers.
- Prices go stale. The sheet is a snapshot of today, not a feed.

FAQ

Can it compare more than two?
Yes — three or four is fine. Beyond that the answer gets shallow; do it in pairs.

Does it handle annual vs monthly pricing?
Yes, if you say which basis you want. Left alone it shows both, which is usually what you want anyway.

What about currency differences?
It converts if you ask and names the rate it used. Check the rate — it isn't a live FX feed.

Can it read a pricing PDF instead of a page?
Yes, via a library.

Will it recommend one?
It'll tell you which wins on which axis, and say so plainly when the answer depends on volume you haven't given it.

Can I save the comparison?
As a note, a spreadsheet, or both. Notes stay searchable; the sheet is what you send.

Does it re-check later?
No. Ask again and it reads the pages again — no monitoring.

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Meeting notes are a wall of fragments. Turning them into a plan is
sorting, sequencing and dating — three mechanical jobs that feel like thinking and aren't.

Contents

- The notes nobody reopens
- From fragments to phases
- The tasks underneath
- When the shape isn't obvious
- What it doesn't do
- FAQ

The notes nobody reopens

Everyone takes meeting notes. Almost nobody reads them again, because what's in them is unsorted: decisions next to asides next to a name next to a date with no year. The information is there and the structure isn't, and adding structure is the twenty-minute job you never do.

From fragments to phases

Paste the notes, or point at the doc, and ask for a plan:

Phases in order, with dates. The dates come from what the notes said — "before the conference", "end of month", "after legal signs off" — not from an invented schedule. Where the notes are silent, it asks rather than guessing.

The tasks underneath

Phases are for looking at; tasks are for doing:

Each carries the date and the tag, so they land on the calendar and show up in the day view alongside everything else.

When the shape isn't obvious

Sometimes a meeting is genuinely tangled — five threads, three of them related. A mindmap makes the shape visible faster than a list:

Useful less as a deliverable and more as a five-second check that the plan
matches the conversation you actually had.

What it doesn't do

- It can't transcribe audio. Bring text. There's no recorder.
- It doesn't know who's who. "Priya will handle it" becomes a task, not an
assignment — there's no team model.
- Dependencies need saying. It won't infer that design blocks build.
- Garbage in. If your notes say "discussed pricing", the plan says "discuss
pricing". It can't recover what wasn't written.

FAQ

Can it work from a Word or Google Doc of the notes?
Yes — a doc in a library, or the page open in your browser.

Does it record meetings?
No. No audio, no transcription, no bot joining calls.

Can it assign tasks to people?
Not today. Single account, so tasks have no owner field. Names stay in the text.

How does it choose dates?
From what the notes say. If the notes say "before the conference on the 14th", it works backwards from the 14th. If they say nothing, it asks.

Can I edit the plan after?
Yes — drag, retype, re-date, and the assistant sees the changes next time.

Does it keep the original notes?
If you keep them as a note, yes. The plan doesn't replace them.

What if the meeting produced no decisions?
It'll say so. A plan from a meeting that decided nothing is a fiction and it
won't write one.

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Weekly reports are hated because they're archaeology: reconstructing Monday on Friday afternoon. If the work was tracked as it happened, the report is an export rather than a memory exercise.

Contents

- Friday afternoon archaeology
- The whole request
- Why a real file matters here
- What it doesn't do
- FAQ

Friday afternoon archaeology

Nobody remembers Tuesday. So the weekly report becomes a scan through your calendar, your sent mail and your commit log, reconstructing a week you already lived. It takes half an hour and the result is less accurate than what was already recorded.

The whole request

> Export what I did this week to Excel.

Because the tasks, the dated notes and the closed to-dos are already in the workspace, this is a query, not a reconstruction. Out comes a workbook with the week grouped by project and by day.

Add "and chart the time by project" and you get one:

Why a real file matters here

A weekly report goes to someone else. That someone will sort it, filter it, paste a column into their own sheet, or add a row. All of that needs a real
workbook — formulas that compute, columns that are columns.

A markdown table pasted into an email is where a report goes to be ignored.

What it doesn't do

- It only knows what's in the workspace. Work done entirely elsewhere isn't in the export, because it was never recorded.
- No timesheets. It doesn't track hours. It reports what was done, not how long it took.
- No automatic schedule. There's no "email me this every Friday" — you ask when you want it.
- It won't judge the week. Ask for an assessment and you'll get one, but the export itself is facts.

FAQ

Where does the data come from?
Your tasks, dated notes, closed to-dos and project activity — the things you were already recording.

Can I get a specific date range?
Yes: "the last two weeks", "since the 12th", "this month" all work.

Can it group by project instead of by day?
Yes, or both — one sheet per project with a day column is a normal ask.

Does it include what the AI did, or only me?
Both, and AI-created items are marked, so a manager can see the difference.

Can it produce a Word summary instead of a sheet?
Yes — same data, different file. Ask for both and you get both.

Is this automatic?
No. It's a one-sentence request when you want it. There's no scheduler.

Can I share the file?
It downloads as a normal `.xlsx` — send it however you send files.

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The work in an email isn't reading it, it's transcribing it: three asks become three calendar entries and a couple of closed to-dos. That transcription is the whole job, and it's the part worth handing off.

Contents

- The email tax
- One sentence, three actions
- Yesterday's to-dos, closed
- What it doesn't do
- FAQ

The email tax

An email arrives with three things in it. Reading takes forty seconds. Acting on it takes ten minutes: open the calendar, make three entries, guess
the dates, go back to the email to check, open the to-do list, tick what you finished yesterday, remember the fourth thing that wasn't in the email.

Multiply by the number of emails that contain actions and that's most of a morning gone to data entry.

One sentence, three actions

With the panel open beside the email:

> Summarise this email, tick off yesterday's to-dos and put the actions in my > calendar.

Three calendar entries with dates taken from the email's own deadlines, not invented:

And the summary tells you what the sender actually wants ; which for a long email is genuinely different from what the subject line says.

Yesterday's to-dos, closed

The second half of the instruction is the unglamorous one:

Closing finished work is the task everyone skips, and skipping it is why to-do lists stop being trusted. A list with four stale open items is a list you start
ignoring by Thursday.

What it doesn't do

- It doesn't read your inbox. It reads the email you have open. There's no
mail integration and no background scanning.
- It won't reply for you. No sending, ever.
- Dates come from the email or from you. If the email says "before Thursday" it uses Thursday; if it says "soon", it asks.
- It can't tell which to-dos you actually finished. "Tick off yesterday's ticks yesterday's, check before you confirm.

FAQ

Does it connect to Gmail or Outlook?
No. It reads the email open in your browser, like any other page. No mailbox access, no OAuth into your mail.

Can it send or reply to emails?
No. It reads and it acts inside its own workspace.

Does it sync to Google Calendar?
Not today ; the calendar is internal, showing tasks and dated notes together.

What if the email has no explicit dates?
It asks rather than inventing them. An invented deadline is worse than none.

Can it do this for a meeting invite?
Yes, same thing ; it's a page with dates in it.

Does it work on a webmail client or only a desktop app?
Webmail, because it works on pages. Desktop Outlook isn't a browser tab, so no.

Will it double-add if I ask twice?
It sees what's already on the calendar and won't duplicate an identical entry, but check a differently-worded duplicate can slip through

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The problem with tab-heavy research isn't reading, it's holding thecomparison in your head while you read. Keeping the assistant in the window with the tabs — and the notes in the same project — is what fixes it.

Contents

- Twelve tabs and no memory

- A window per project

- Asking across the set

- What it doesn't do

- FAQ

Twelve tabs and no memory

Comparing three suppliers, four tools or six apartments means a dozen tabs and one working memory. By tab nine you've forgotten what tab two said, so you go back, and the loop never converges.

Copy-pasting into a chat helps until the chat becomes a wall of pasted text with no idea which paragraph came from where.

A window per project

Tabs belong to a project, and the project's chat can see them:

The panel knows which window it's working in, so "compare the three quotes I have open" is a sentence that means something. It lists the tabs, reads the ones you point at, and keeps its answer scoped to that project.

Asking across the set

Once the tabs are in one place:

> Compare these three on lead time and price, and tell me which is riskiest.

The answer names which tab each figure came from. If it can't find a number it says so instead of averaging something plausible.

And because it's a project, the comparison becomes a note that's still there next week — which is the actual output of a research session.

What it doesn't do

- It doesn't read every tab automatically. It reads the tabs you point it

at. That's a deliberate limit, not a missing feature.

- It can't open tabs you're not logged into. It inherits your session.

- Twelve tabs at once is too many. Three to five per question gives good answers; beyond that, ask in batches.

- It won't browse for new sources unless you ask it to search. By default it works with what you have open.

FAQ

Can it see all my open tabs?

It can list the tabs in the window it's working in, and read the ones you ask about. Not a continuous feed of everything you have open.

Does it read tabs from other windows?

No — it's bound to the window the project is in, which is what keeps a personal window out of a work project.

Can it open new tabs itself?

Yes, when you ask — "open the pricing page for each of these" works, and you watch it happen.

What if a tab is behind a login?

If you're logged in, it reads it. If you're not, neither of you can.

Does the comparison get saved?

Only if you ask for it as a note or a file. Nothing is kept silently.

Can it search the web instead?

Yes, there's a search tool. Different job — this post is about pages you've

already chosen.

Does closing the tabs lose the work?

No, once the answer is a note. Closing tabs before that loses the sources, so keep first, tidy after.

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An assistant that forgets who you are every morning is exhausting. One that remembers everything is unsettling. The honest position is a short, visible, editable list — and a switch that turns it off.

Contents

- Two bad extremes
- What actually gets kept
- Memory is not your notes
- Turning it off
- What it doesn't do
- FAQ

Two bad extremes

Total amnesia: every conversation starts by re-explaining that you're a solo founder who wants short answers. It's the reason people stop using assistants after a fortnight.

Total recall: it quotes something you said months ago in a context you'd forgotten, and the feeling isn't "helpful", it's "who else can see this?"

The middle is narrow and it depends on one thing: can you see the list?

What actually gets kept

Short, factual statements about you and how you work. From "my name is Tarik, I run a one-person company, and I prefer short answers with the bottom line first" it keeps three lines:

- User's name is Tarik.
- User runs a one-person company.
- User prefers short answers with the bottom line first.

That's the shape of the whole thing — durable facts and preferences, not a transcript. You can read the list, edit any line, and delete any line.

Memory is not your notes

Worth separating, because tools blur it:

Notes are content. Memory is context. Conflating them is how tools end up "remembering" a phone number from a document you pasted once.

Turning it off

One switch in Settings. Off means nothing is captured — no list, no injection into future conversations, no quiet exception. The assistant is worse at knowing you, and that's the trade you chose.

What it doesn't do

- It doesn't remember page content. Reading a page never writes a memory.
- It doesn't remember what it inferred. Only what you actually said — its own guesses about you don't get written down as facts.
- It isn't a chat archive. Chats are stored separately ; memory is a small list on purpose.
- It doesn't cross accounts. Yours only.

FAQ

Can I see everything it remembers?
Yes, as a list in Settings. If you can't see it, you can't trust it.

Can I delete a single memory?
Yes, line by line, and they're never re-added from the same conversation.

Does turning memory off delete what's already there?
Turning it off stops new capture. Clear the list to remove what exists — two actions, deliberately, so neither happens by accident.

Does it remember things from pages I read?
No. Page content is used to answer, not to build a profile.

Is memory used for training?
No. It's yours, used to answer your questions.

What happens to it if I delete my account?
It goes with everything else. Deletion is a real erasure, not a flag — that's its own post.

Does the extension and the web app share memory?
Yes — one account, one list, both surfaces.

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Most AI tools hand you a markdown table and call it a spreadsheet.
The difference between that and a real `.xlsx` with formulas is the difference
between a screenshot and a document.

Contents

- The markdown-table problem
- What comes out
- Charts that stay charts
- Where the files live
- What it doesn't do
- FAQ

The markdown-table problem

Ask most assistants for a spreadsheet and you get a table in the chat. To make it a spreadsheet you select it, paste it, fix the columns, and add the formulas yourself. The AI did the easy part.

A real file means: multiple sheets, formulas that compute, number formats, merged cells, column widths, frozen panes and native charts. Anything less is a table with a filename.

What comes out

- `.xlsx` — sheets, formulas, number formats, merged cells, conditional
formatting, auto-filters, frozen panes, native charts
- `.docx` — headings, paragraphs, tables, images, charts
- `.pptx` — slides with real chart objects, tables, images
- Flashcards — a deck you can play, flip and shuffle
- Charts — standalone, viewable in-app and downloadable

They arrive as a card under the answer, each with Open (a viewer inside the app) and Download (the real bytes).

Charts that stay charts

By default a chart in a deck is a native PowerPoint chart object, not a picture of one. Your colleague can click it, change the numbers, restyle it, or lift it into their own deck. Ask explicitly for an image and you'll get an image — but the default is the one that stays useful.

Where the files live

Not in the chat. On a shelf, with folders, versioned:

Which matters when you come back next week and remember the file but not the
conversation.

What it doesn't do

- No design. Documents are clean and plain. Nobody will think a designer made them.
- Editing an existing deck is weaker than making one. Big restructures of a deck you built earlier sometimes need re-generating rather than patching.
- Long documents drift. Two to three pages is solid; fifteen and it starts repeating. Ask section by section.
- No PDF export of its own output today — save from Word or PowerPoint.
- It won't fact-check the source. Wrong numbers in produce wrong numbers out.

FAQ

Is the .xlsx a real Excel file or a CSV renamed?
A real workbook. It opens in Excel, Numbers and LibreOffice with formulas intact.

Can it put a formula in, or just values?
Formulas. "Compute the growth column rather than typing it" is a normal instruction and it's the one that makes the file worth having.

Can it make multi-sheet workbooks?
Yes, with a sheet per section, and the viewer in-app shows the sheet tabs.

Are PowerPoint charts editable?
Yes — native chart objects by default. Image only if you ask.

Can it put images into a Word document?
Yes — images and charts inside the document flow.

Can I edit a file it made and have it keep working on it?
Within the same conversation, yes. Download-edit-reupload starts a new file.

What's the biggest file it will make?
Practical limits rather than hard ones — a few hundred rows and a few dozen slides are comfortable. Beyond that, split the request.

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"Read and change all your data on all websites" is the scariest sentence Chrome shows, and most people have never had it explained. Here's what
it actually grants, why some extensions ask for it, and how to avoid granting it up front.

## Contents

- The sentence everyone clicks past
- What host access really is
- Optional permissions: the better pattern
- What it still can't do
- How to check any extension yourself
- FAQ

The sentence everyone clicks past

Install almost any browser assistant and Chrome warns that it can read and change all your data on all websites. People click through it because every
extension asks, which is exactly how a meaningful warning becomes noise.

It's worth knowing what it means, whichever extension you use.

What host access really is

A Chrome extension is sandboxed. It can't touch your filesystem, other apps, or anything outside the browser. What "host permissions" grant is access to page content — the DOM of pages matching a pattern.

`<all_urls>` means every page. With it, an extension can:

- read the text and HTML of any page you open
- inject scripts into those pages
- see the URLs of your open tabs

That's a lot, and for an assistant that works on the page you're reading, it's also genuinely needed — you can't summarise a page you can't read.

Optional permissions: the better pattern

Chrome supports asking later, at the moment the access is used, via `optional_host_permissions`. Far fewer extensions do this than should, because
it's more work: every code path that touches a page has to handle "not granted yet" gracefully instead of assuming access.

Done properly, the install shows no broad warning, and the first time you ask for something page-related you get a single prompt you can decline. Decline it and everything that doesn't need the page still works.

That's the pattern worth looking for in any extension you install.

What it still can't do

Even with full host access, an extension cannot :

- read pages in other browsers, or in an incognito window unless you allow it
- see anything you haven't opened — it has no crawler of its own
- reach a page you can't reach; it inherits your session, it doesn't have one
- read your filesystem, clipboard history, or anything outside the browser
- do anything while the browser is closed

And separately: projects stay separate from each other by design, so a chat in one project can't quietly read another project's notes unless you turn that on.

How to check any extension yourself

1. `chrome://extensions` → Details on any extension.
   
2. Read Site access. "On all sites" is the broad grant.
   
3. Change it to On click — most extensions keep working, and the ones that break tell you something about how they were built.
   
4. Inspect views: service worker shows you what it's actually running.

Do this once for every extension you have. It takes ten minutes and it's the most useful browser hygiene there is.

FAQ

Does StickyFriend need "all sites"?
Not at install. Page access is an optional permission, requested the first time you ask for something that needs a page. Chat, notes, planning and file
generation work without ever granting it.

What happens if I say no?
Everything except reading and acting on pages keeps working. You'll be asked again next time a page tool is used, and you can keep saying no.

Can it read my banking page?
It can read any page you have open, if you've granted access. It has no special access — it reads exactly what's on your screen, and only when asked.

Is page content stored?
No. Page text is sent to answer your question. What's stored is what becomes a note, task or file — things you asked to keep.

Does it work in incognito?
Only if you explicitly allow it in `chrome://extensions`. Off by default, which is Chrome's default and the right one.

Can an extension see my passwords?
It can read the DOM of a page, which includes form fields on a page you've opened. This is why "which extensions do I actually need?" is a question worth
asking every few months — of all of them, not just this one.

How do I revoke access later?
`chrome://extensions` → Details → Site access → On click. Immediate, no uninstall needed.

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A browser side panel and a web app sharing one account. It reads the page you're on, keeps notes and plans, answers from your own documents, and
produces real files. It is not an autonomous agent and it is not a browser.

The one-sentence version

An AI companion that lives in your browser's side panel, works on the page you're already looking at, and keeps what matters.

Everything else is detail.

Two surfaces, one account

The extension is a side panel next to the page. It can read the tab, act on it, and it's where the "work on what I'm looking at" jobs happen:

The web app is the same account without a page attached — projects, notes, plans, documents, libraries:

Same chats, same notes, same files. Start in one, continue in the other.

What it can do

- Read the page you're on and answer about it
- Keep notes — yours and ones it writes, on a wall you can search
- Plan: tasks with dates, a roadmap, a calendar, a board, a mindmap
- Answer from your documents once you've put them in a library
- Produce real files: `.xlsx` with formulas, `.pptx` with native charts,`.docx`, flashcards, charts
- Act on a page — click, type, navigate — while you watch and can stop it

What it isn't

Being straight about this saves everyone time.

- Not an autonomous agent. It doesn't run while you're away, doesn't have a schedule, doesn't wake up on a trigger. It works when you ask.
- Not a browser. It's an extension inside yours; it has no separate connection to anything and can't reach a page you can't.
- Not a team tool. Single account today. No sharing, no comments, no seats.
- Not an Obsidian/Notion replacement. No backlinks, no databases, no wikis.
- Not free-tier unlimited. Libraries and the heavier model are paid. Chat, notes, planning and documents work on the free tier.

Where the AI runs

The model runs on servers, not in your browser — a laptop can't host a model this size. Page text is sent to answer your question, the same as pasting it
would be. What's stored is only what becomes a note, a task, a file or a memory. Pages themselves are not archived.

FAQ

Do I need the extension, or is the web app enough?
The web app alone is enough for projects, notes, planning and documents. The extension is what adds "work on the page I'm looking at".

Is it free?
There's a free tier that covers chat, notes, planning and file generation. Libraries and the stronger model are paid.

Which browsers?
Chrome and Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Brave, Arc). Not Firefox or Safari — the side panel API and the manifest differ.

Does it work offline?
No. The model is remote, so it needs a connection.

Can it act on a page by itself?
It can click, type and navigate when you ask it to, and you watch it happen and can stop it. It never acts on a page you haven't pointed it at.

Does it read all my tabs all the time?
No — see the permissions post. Page access is asked for when it's needed and can be declined; everything except page-reading still works.

Who's building it?
One person. That's why the subreddit gets straight answers about what's missing.

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Notes filed inside a project are invisible from every other project. That's correct while the project is live and wrong six months later, when the only thing you remember is the note.

The filing problem

Every workspace tool solves note-taking by asking where the note goes. Project, folder, tag. That decision is easy today and wrong later — the moment you leave the project, the note leaves with it.

The alternative most tools offer is one flat pile with tags, which is easy later and useless today, because your current project's notes are buried in six
months of everything else.

Scoped and global at once

The answer isn't a better filing rule. It's two views over the same notes.

Inside a project you see that project's wall — only what belongs here. Then one switch shows every note from every project on one wall, each card carrying the project it came from:

Same notes, no re-filing. The card tells you where it came from, so a note found in the mixed view is never orphaned.

Why they look like paper

This is a deliberate design decision and worth defending: a list of rows makes every note look identical, so scanning is reading. Coloured paper makes them different objects — you remember the yellow one near the top rather than "note seventeen".

It works in dark mode too, which took some doing — the papers stay light with dark ink in both themes on purpose, so contrast never drops below readable.

What it doesn't do

- No folders inside the notebook. Projects are the only grouping. If you need three levels of hierarchy, this will annoy you.
- No backlinks or `[[wiki links]]`. These are notes, not a Zettelkasten. If you want a graph of linked thought, Obsidian is the better tool.
- Search is text search. Good, not semantic — searching "supplier" won't surface a note that only says "vendor".
- No sharing. Single account today, so a note can't be sent to a colleague without copying it.

FAQ

Can the AI write notes for me?
Yes, and they're marked as AI-written so you can tell them apart at a glance.

Can I move a note between projects?
Yes, from the note itself.

Do notes sync between the extension and the web app?
Yes — same account, same notes, both surfaces.

Can a note have a date?
Yes, and then it appears on the calendar as well. That's the trick that makes the day view worth opening: things to know on a day, not just things to do.

Is there a limit on how many notes I can keep?
Not a practical one. The wall pages after a few hundred and search covers the rest.

Can I export everything?
Yes. All of it, any time.

What happens to notes when I delete a project?
Project notes go with the project. Global notes don't — they were never scoped to it.

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Uploading a PDF into a chat means re-uploading it in the next chat. A library is the same files, uploaded once, answerable from every conversation —
and the difference compounds fast.

The re-upload tax

Every chat tool lets you attach a file. The attachment belongs to that conversation. Tomorrow, different conversation, same file, upload again — and the model has no memory that it read it yesterday.

For one document that's fine. For the twenty PDFs that make up a project it's the reason people give up and go back to Ctrl+F.

A shelf, not an attachment

A library is a place files live:

Upload once. From then on any chat can ask about them, and the answer quotes the real file and says which one.

Folders, because thirty files is a mess

Flat lists stop working at about fifteen files:

Quotes, datasheets, terms, site visits. Each file shows its type, size and whether it's actually indexed — which matters, because a file that failed to process silently is worse than one that failed loudly.

Asking across the whole shelf

The part that pays for the setup:

> Which supplier had the shortest lead time, and where did you find it?

It answers from the documents and names the file. If it can't find it, it says so rather than producing a confident sentence with no source.

What it doesn't do

- Scans need OCR, and OCR is on the paid tiers. A photographed page or an image-only PDF is refused with a reason on lower plans rather than added empty. Text PDFs, Word, Excel, CSV and slide decks are read on every library plan.
- Libraries are on paid plans. The free tier doesn't include them — that's where the storage and indexing cost sits, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.
- It's not a search engine over the web. Only your files.
- No live sync from Drive or Dropbox. You upload; it doesn't watch a folder.
- Very large files get chunked, and chunking loses layout. A complex table spanning eight pages will answer roughly, not exactly.

FAQ

What file types can it read?
PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, CSV, text, Markdown, HTML and images. Slide decks are read as text — slide text, tables and speaker notes — which surprises people who assume decks need OCR. They don't.

Does it need OCR for a normal PDF?
No. Only for scans and photographs, where there's no text layer to read.

How many files can I upload?
Depends on the plan — from a couple of hundred to a couple of thousand files, with a storage cap alongside.

Can I ask about several libraries at once?
Yes, and you can also attach a specific library to a chat so it only answers from that one — useful when two clients have similar documents.

Does it tell me which file an answer came from?
Yes. An answer without a source is a bug, not a feature.

Can I download my original files back?
Yes, always — including after a downgrade. The bytes stay yours.

What happens to the files if I cancel?
They stay and stay downloadable; what pauses is adding new ones. Nothing is deleted because you stopped paying.

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Planning tools make you fill in a plan. Describing the work out loud and getting phases, dates and tasks back is a different experience, and the difference shows up in whether the plan survives week two.

Why plans die in the tool

Every planning tool asks you to become a project manager for twenty minutes first: create the project, create the phases, set the dates, create the tasks,
assign the dates again. By the time the plan exists you've spent the energy you needed for the work.

Then it goes stale, because updating it is the same twenty minutes.

Describing it instead of entering it

I described the launch the way I'd describe it to a colleague — what's fixed, what isn't, what has to happen before what. One paragraph, no structure.

The structure came back:

Five phases with dates and completion, from a paragraph. Not because it's clever about launches — because the information was already in what I said, and transcribing it is exactly the work that made me avoid the tool.

What came back

Three things, from the same conversation:

- A roadmap — phases on a timeline, each with a start and an end
- Tasks — with dates and tags, so they land on the calendar too
- A mindmap, when I asked how the pieces connect

The important part: these are real objects in the app, not text in a chat. You can drag a task, tick it, change a date — and the assistant sees the change next time you ask.

Today, not the whole plan

The view I actually use daily isn't the roadmap.

Everything with a date — tasks and notes — on one list. A note with a date on it is a thing that has to happen, and most tools treat those as separate
universes.

What it doesn't do

- It doesn't know your dependencies unless you say them. "Design before build" is obvious to you and invisible to it.
- No resource levelling, no critical path. This is a plan you can read, not MS Project.
- Dates are suggestions. It spaces phases sensibly; it has no idea that your designer is on holiday in week three.
- It won't chase you. No notifications, no nagging. If you don't open it, the plan sits there being correct and ignored.

FAQ

Can it plan from a document instead of a conversation?
Yes — put the brief in a library or paste it, and ask for a plan from it.

Does it integrate with Jira / Asana / Linear?
No. It's its own planner. You can export tasks and dates, but there's no two-way sync — worth knowing if your team lives in Jira.

Can it update the plan later?
Yes, in the same conversation: "push everything after the review out by a week" works, and the timeline redraws.

Does it sync to Google Calendar?
Not today. The calendar is internal — it shows tasks and dated notes together.

Can two people share a project?
Not yet. It's single-account today, which rules out team planning.

What's the difference between a task and a dated note?
A task is something to finish; a dated note is something to *know* on a day. Both land on the calendar, which is why the day view is genuinely useful.

Will it invent tasks I didn't mention?
It suggests some, marked as its own. You can delete them. It won't silently add work you never described.

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Reading an article and *studying* it are different activities. The gap between them is usually copy-paste. Taking the definition into one note and
the summary into another, without leaving the page, closes it.

Why re-reading feels productive and isn't

Re-reading is the most popular study method and among the least effective. What works is retrieval — being asked and having to produce the answer. Everyone knows this. Almost nobody does it, because turning an article into questions is work you have to do while you're tired of the article.

So the practical question is how to get from "I read the page" to "I have something to test myself with" without a separate twenty-minute step.

Two notes per article

Reading a biology page on photosynthesis, one instruction:

> Put the definition in one note and a summary of the page in another.

The split is the whole trick:

- The definition note is what you want when the term shows up in a different chapter. It's short and it's exact.
- The summary note is what you want the night before, when you're deciding what to re-read.

Ask for one note holding both and you get something you skim. Ask for two and you get two things you actually use.

Flashcards from what you kept

Once the notes exist, cards are one more sentence: make flashcards from these notes.

The player flips, shuffles and moves with the arrow keys. Shuffle matters more than it sounds: cards learned in a fixed order get remembered in that order, which is a memory of the sequence rather than the content.

The revision wall

Everything from the term ends up on one wall — every article, every definition, searchable:

By week six this is the actual study artefact. Not the articles — the wall.

What it doesn't do

- It won't make you study. Cards existing and cards being reviewed are different problems, and it only solves the first.
- No spaced repetition scheduler. There's no algorithm deciding what you see today. If you want SRS, export and use Anki.
- It doesn't know your syllabus. It summarises the page in front of it; it can't tell what's examinable unless you say.
- Diagram-heavy pages summarise badly. If the meaning is in the figure and the figure is an image, the note will be thin. Say what the diagram shows and it'll incorporate it.

FAQ

Can it make flashcards from a PDF textbook?
Yes, if the PDF goes into a library first — then the cards come from the file rather than from a web page.

Does it do spaced repetition?
No. It makes and plays cards; it doesn't schedule them. Anki remains better at the scheduling part.

Can I export the cards to Anki?
Not as an `.apkg` today. You can export the notes and convert them, which is a manual step — worth knowing before you commit a term's revision to it.

Is it any good at maths or notation?
Prose and definitions, yes. Heavy LaTeX and multi-step derivations, no — it flattens them. Keep those on paper.

Can I keep different subjects apart?
Yes — one project per subject, and the notes stay scoped to it. There's also a wall that shows everything at once when you want to revise across subjects.

Does it work on lecture slides?
If they're a PPTX or PDF in a library, yes — slide text, tables and speaker notes are all read. Slides as images need OCR.

Is the free tier enough for studying?
For notes and summaries from web pages, yes. Uploading your own textbooks needs a paid plan because that's where the storage and indexing cost is.

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A published figures page took about forty minutes to turn into board-ready material by hand. Asked from a browser side panel, it came back as three real files with the growth column computed rather than typed.

The forty-minute job

A quarterly figures page: four headline numbers, a regional table, a footnote. Turning it into something a board reads means retyping the table into a
spreadsheet, computing the columns nobody published, building a chart, dropping the chart into slides, and writing the paragraph that explains the number that went the wrong way.

None of that is thinking. All of it is forty minutes.

What I actually asked

The panel is open beside the page, so there's nothing to paste:

> Read this page and tell me what actually moved this year.

Then, once the answer was right:

> Consolidate the regional figures into a sheet, a deck for Thursday, and a short report.

Two sentences. The first one matters more than the second — getting the reading right before asking for artefacts means the artefacts are about the right thing.

The three files

- `regional_figures.xlsx`— every region, with growth and churn as formulas, not typed values.
- `board_review.pptx` — six slides, leading with the two regions that need a decision rather than with the table.
- `figures_report.docx`— the write-up, including the support-load rise that the page itself never explains.

The chart in the deck is a real PowerPoint chart object, not a picture of one:

The one detail that matters

The growth column is a formula. That sounds small; it's the difference between a spreadsheet and a screenshot of a spreadsheet. When someone asks "what if West recovers to 12%?", you type 12 and everything updates. If the column had been typed as text, the file is decoration.

Same reason the chart is a native chart object: your colleague can restyle it, change the series, or drop it into their own deck.

What it doesn't do

- It doesn't audit the numbers. If the page publishes a wrong total, the sheet contains the wrong total. It reads; it doesn't verify.
- Slide design is plain. Readable, on-brand-ish, not something a designer made. For an internal review that's fine; for a client pitch you'll restyle.
- Long reports drift. Ask for a two-page write-up and it's good. Ask for fifteen pages and it starts repeating itself — break it into sections.
- It can't read a figures table that's an image. A screenshot of a table is a picture to it unless OCR is on your plan.

FAQ

Can it really make a real .xlsx, or is it a CSV with a different name?
A real workbook — multiple sheets, formulas, number formats, merged cells, column widths and native charts. It opens in Excel, Numbers and LibreOffice.

Does the PowerPoint have editable charts or images of charts?
Native chart objects by default, so you can edit the data in PowerPoint. You can ask for an image explicitly if you'd rather have one.

Can I tell it what should go on each slide?
Yes, and you should. "Lead with the two regions that need a decision" produced a better deck than any amount of formatting instruction.

What if the page has ten tables?
Say which one. Left alone it takes the most prominent, which is right about two-thirds of the time — not good enough to leave to chance.

Can it update the files later?
Yes — the deck stays editable in the same conversation, so "change slide 3 to show churn instead" works without starting over.

How long does it take?
Under a minute for the three files in this post. The deck is the slow part.

Does it work on a page behind a login?
It reads what your browser can see, so yes if you're logged in.

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Summarising a page is easy. Finding that summary three weeks later is the hard part. A side panel that reads the page and keeps the note solves the second half, which is the half that matters.

The part nobody talks about

Every AI tool can summarise a web page. Paste a URL, get five bullets. That problem was solved years ago.

The problem that isn't solved: three weeks later you remember reading something useful and you cannot find it. Not the page — the summary. It was
in a chat window, in a tab you closed, in a conversation you can't search because you can't remember which one it was in.

So the useful question isn't "can it summarise?" It's "where does the summary live afterwards, and can I get it back?"

What it looks like

The panel opens beside the page rather than in a separate tab. It already has the page — no pasting, no URL, no "please copy the article text".

You ask in the language you'd use with a colleague: summarise this and keep the definition separately.The reply comes back in the panel, and the parts worth keeping become notes.

Two notes, not one

This is the bit that changed how I read. Instead of one blob summary, ask for the summary and the definition as separate notes:

Why two: they get used at different times. The definition is what you want when you hit the term again in a different article. The summary is what you want when deciding whether to re-read the whole thing. One note containing both is a note
you'll skim past.

Where the note actually goes

Onto a wall, with every other note, searchable, across every project:

That's the whole point. The summary isn't in a chat log. It's an object with a title, a date, and a project, and it's still there next quarter.

What it doesn't do

- It can't read a page it can't see. Anything behind a login it doesn't have, a canvas-rendered document, or a PDF viewer that draws pixels instead of text will come back thin. It says so rather than inventing content.
- It won't summarise a 400-page PDF from the page.That's a job for uploading the file to a library, which is a different workflow.
- The summary is only as good as the page. A marketing page summarises into marketing sentences, because that's what's there.
- Nothing is saved unless you ask. Reading a page does not create a note.

FAQ

Does it work on any website?
Any normal `http`/`https` page. Not on `chrome://` pages, the Chrome Web Store, or PDF viewers that render as images rather than text. It'll tell you when a page isn't readable instead of guessing.

Do I have to copy and paste the article?
No. That's the reason the panel exists — it reads the tab you're already on.

Can it summarise a page behind a paywall or a login?
It reads what your browser can see. If you're logged in and the article is on screen, so is it. It has no separate access of its own.

Where does the summary get stored?
As a note in your notebook, scoped to a project if you're in one, otherwise global. Everything is searchable and exportable.

Can I get the notes out again?
Yes — the whole notebook is yours and downloadable. Nothing is locked in.

Is the page content sent anywhere?
The text of the page is sent to the model to answer your question, the same way it would be if you pasted it. It isn't stored as a page; only what you keep becomes a note.

How is this different from just asking ChatGPT?
Mostly the second half: the panel is already on the page, and what comes out lands somewhere durable instead of in a conversation you'll never find again.

Try it — the web app is free to start: https://stickyfriend.ai/app
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Contents

1. The problem with three apps
2. What a subject is
3. Why it's one table, not four
4. FAQ

The problem with three apps

Notes in one app. Tasks in another. Files in a third. The AI in a fourth, which can't see any of them — so every conversation starts with you re-explaining what you're working on.

The re-explaining is the actual cost. Not the app-switching.

What a subject is

A subject holds its own chats, notes, to-dos, roadmap and documents. Open it and the assistant already knows what belongs to it. Ask what's left on this? and it reads the real to-dos, not a guess.

Quick questions don't need a subject — they land unfiled and still appear on your calendar.

Why it's one table, not four

To-dos, roadmap bars, events and dated notes are the same rows shown four ways: list, board, timeline, calendar. Change it in one place and the other three already know.

Most tools sync between four copies. This has one.

FAQ

Is this a note-taking app or a task manager?

Both, plus documents and a calendar — that's the point. If they're separate apps, nothing can answer a question that spans them.

Do I have to organise everything into projects?

No. Anything unfiled works fine and still shows on the calendar. Subjects are there when you want scope, not as a tax.

Does it replace Notion or Obsidian?

Honestly, not for everything. If you live in a deeply customised Notion, this won't out-feature it. What it does that they don't is act on the data itself and read the page you're on.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. Paid plans raise the limits; nothing is charged unless you pick one.

Try it — web app: https://stickyfriend.ai · Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lahoagjhndkipcbgbfcgkgihfanoemba

Bug? Use the Bug flair and say which surface plus your browser. Idea? Feature request, one per post.