Changelog
What's changed
Every release, and the reasoning behind it. Latr updates itself - there is nothing for you to install.
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Twelve themes, each in light and dark; settings you can read at a glance
A release about how Latr looks, and about three things that were quietly wrong.
1. Twelve colour themes, every one in light and dark
- What it is: Four new themes - Gruvbox, Rosé Pine, Everforest and One - join the eight, and the three that only came in dark now have a light half: Dracula’s is Alucard, its authors’ own; Tokyo Night’s is Tokyo Night Day; Midnight’s is a pale sky built from the same blue.
- How it works: Settings → Appearance → Colour theme. The Light / Dark control above the gallery now always does something, because every theme has both halves to switch between.
- Why it helps: “I set Light and it stayed dark” was the most reported thing about themes, and it was the honest result of a theme that had no light half. Now none of them is missing one.
2. Theme cards you can judge before you click
- What it is: Each card in the gallery is a miniature of the popup - a header, two reminder rows with an amber countdown, a button - drawn in that theme, in place of a strip of six colour swatches.
- Why it helps: A row of colours shows what differs between two themes. A surface shows what it is like to use one.
3. Two more fonts
- What it is: Onest and Geologica, the two faces Latr already ships for its own pages, can now be chosen for the whole extension beside System, Serif and Mono.
4. Settings pictures that say what changes
- What it is: In the picture cards on the settings page, the tab a choice is about is now the biggest thing in the drawing, and every card where Latr does something carries one small glyph naming the outcome - behind the current tab, out in front, a notification only, closed, merged, saved, asleep.
- Why it helps: Three drawings that differed by one small dot read as the same drawing three times. Now the difference is the first thing you see.
5. The week starts where your language says it does
- What it is: The month calendar and the date picker open on Monday for German, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian and British English, and on Sunday for US English, Japanese and Chinese - which is what each one’s calendars do.
- How it works: Latr asks the browser which day your language starts its week on; where the browser cannot say, the language decides.
Fixed
- A theme you made yourself, or any starter other than the built-in look, kept three of the built-in palette’s colours under its own panels: the recessed surface behind empty states and setting previews, the text on a full amber fill, and the shade behind a sheet. All three now come from the theme.
- “12m” on the toolbar badge in the settings pictures no longer spills out of its disc.
Notes: no new permission, and no reminder behaves differently. Every existing theme choice is kept; a dark-only theme you were using simply gains its light half.
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Latr in Portuguese, on the store as well
Latr has shipped a Portuguese translation for a while. The stores never showed it.
1. A Portuguese store listing
- What it is: The Chrome Web Store, Edge Add-ons and Firefox Add-ons now list Portuguese (Brazil) among Latr’s languages.
- How it works: The translation was filed under a language code the stores do not recognise, so they skipped it and showed Brazilian visitors the English name and summary. It is now filed as Portuguese (Brazil), the code the stores read.
- Why it helps: Latr itself was already in Portuguese once installed. Now the store page you install it from is too.
Notes: nothing else changes. No new permission, and no reminder behaves differently. A browser set to Portuguese (Portugal) still shows English, because the translation is Brazilian.
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A settings page you can read at a glance
Settings used to be a long page of switches and dropdowns with words you had to decode. Now most of it explains itself before you read a word.
1. Quick settings
- What it is: Settings now opens on Quick settings: the five choices most people change, each drawn as a small picture.
- How it works: When a reminder is due, light or dark, quiet hours, the toolbar badge, and whether a tab closes after you save it. Pick a picture and it is saved. See all settings is one click away.
- Why it helps: Most people never need more than these five, and now they do not have to go looking.
2. Every choice is a picture
- What it is: Throughout Settings, a choice between a few options is a row of cards instead of a dropdown, and an on/off setting is an Off and an On card.
- How it works: The cards that benefit from a drawing get one: quiet hours shown as a day with the quiet window shaded, a tab opening in front of you or behind, a notification that fades or stays, the badge on the toolbar icon, duplicate tabs, sleeping tabs, your scroll position. A group of yes/no options, like which ways of saving take a page picture, is one set of checkboxes. The same cards appear in each page’s Page settings and in the popup’s Focus section.
- Why it helps: You can see what a setting does before you change it.
3. Labels in plain words
- What it is: Over a hundred settings labels rewritten to say what they do, in all nine languages.
- How it works: When a reminder is due instead of When the moment arrives, Scroll position instead of Where you were, Close unused tabs, Time format, Repeat unanswered notifications.
- Why it helps: A setting you have to guess at is a setting you leave alone.
4. A cleaner page
- What it is: One spacing rhythm, clear headings, and the rarely used settings under Advanced in each section.
- Why it helps: Each section shows a handful of settings instead of a wall of them.
5. Right for Firefox and Edge
- What it is: No message says Chrome where it means any browser. Change this shortcut opens Firefox’s own shortcut editor (Firefox 137 and later) or Edge’s shortcuts page, and the link from the notifications are blocked banner opens Edge’s notification settings, or a help page on Firefox.
- Why it helps: Latr reads correctly in the browser you actually use.
6. Switch to the tab, and be told
- What it is: Open the tab, switch to it, and notify me now also brings the browser window to the front, and its label says that it notifies you too.
- Why it helps: For the reminder you must not miss, the page is in front of you, not just in front of another window.
7. An icon on every Latr page
- What it is: Every Latr page shows the Latr icon in its tab.
- Why it helps: A pinned Latr tab is recognisable at a glance.
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Highlights, several tags, saved views, encrypted backups and a tidier library
Your library now keeps what you have finished, remembers the passages you cared about, and cleans up its own duplicates without losing anything.
1. Save a highlight
- What it is: Select text on any page, right-click, and choose Remind me about this → Save this highlight.
- How it works: The passage goes onto the page you already saved, or keeps the page if you had not. Open it from Latr and the browser highlights every saved passage on the page itself. Up to eight per page, listed in the page’s details, and included in the Markdown export.
- Why it helps: The reason you kept a long article is usually one paragraph. Now it comes back with the page. No new permission is needed.
2. Finished pages stay in the Library
- What it is: Pages you mark done stay in the Library, under the open ones and struck through, with Not done and Done filters in the sidebar. The popup’s Library section shows the latest few under a Done heading.
- Why it helps: A reading list that drops everything you have read is not the list any more.
3. Track progress through a folder
- What it is: Track progress in a folder’s menu.
- How it works: The folder shows how many of its pages are done, a progress bar, and Open next for the oldest page you have not finished.
- Why it helps: For a course, a reading list or a series you work through in order.
4. Remove duplicates in one press
- What it is: A Remove duplicates button above the Duplicates list.
- How it works: The oldest copy of each page stays and takes any folder, tag, note or highlight the extra copies had. The copies go to the bin, and Undo brings them back.
5. Several tags on one page
- What it is: A page can carry up to ten tags. Its details show every tag as a toggle, and the row shows a dot for each.
- How it works: The bulk bar can add a tag to a selection, take one off, or clear them all, without touching the others. Searching
tag:finds a page by any of its tags, and the CSV, Markdown and bookmark exports carry them all.
6. Saved views in the Library
- What it is: A Saved views group in the Library’s sidebar, with a live count beside each view and a colour you can pick.
- How it works: Press + to save whatever the list is showing, a folder or tag plus your search. Views you saved in the popup appear here too, and the other way round.
7. Encrypted backups
- What it is: Settings → Your data → Backup can seal the backup with a passphrase.
- How it works: The file is encrypted on your device before it is saved, so it can sit in a cloud folder or an inbox. Import a backup file recognises a sealed one and asks for the passphrase. Nobody can open it without the passphrase, us included, and a forgotten one cannot be recovered.
8. And smaller things
- Find a page by what you highlighted: search reaches your saved passages, and a Highlights filter lists the pages that have any.
- A shortcut for highlights: Save the selected text as a highlight can be given a key at
chrome://extensions/shortcuts. - Never opened: a filter for pages you kept and have not opened since. It only counts pages saved from this version on, so nothing older is called unread.
- Put a tracked folder in your own order: drag a page, or use Move up and Move down. Open next follows that order.
- Imports keep, they don’t schedule: links you bring in from a bookmark folder, a pasted list or an export file land in your library as kept pages, with the notes and tags the file carried. Pages you already have are skipped by default, or you can import them again or update their titles.
- Most used: a new sort that puts the pages you open most often first.
- Bookmarks file: Settings → Your data → Export bookmarks file writes a file Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari and most bookmark managers can import, folders and tags included.
- Search keys: in the Library, Enter opens the first match, and the first nine results carry a number you can press to open them.
- Page pictures: Capture page thumbnails is now in the Library’s and Reminders’ Page settings, so you can turn screenshots off where you see them.
- Tidier rows: a long note no longer cuts the site, folder and date short, and cards wrap their details onto two readable lines.
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A clearer top bar, and a review you can always find
Two small things: the page you are on is easy to spot, and rating Latr no longer waits to be asked.
1. The top bar says where you are
- What it is: The page you are on carries an amber line under its name in the bar across the top of every Latr page.
- Why it helps: The old marker was a faint raised chip that all but vanished in dark mode.
2. Leave a review, any time
- What it is: Leave a review in the popup’s ⋯ menu and in Settings → About.
- How it works: It opens the store you installed Latr from - the Chrome Web Store, Edge Add-ons or Firefox Add-ons. The occasional prompt now names that store, carries your companion, and also reaches people who use Latr for its library and saved windows rather than timed reminders.
- Why it helps: Latr has no advertising. A rating is how the next person finds it.
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Bookmarks as cards, a quick switch that finds closed tabs, and smarter tab rules
Your browser bookmarks became a visual board, and the quick switch can find a tab you have already closed.
1. Bookmarks you can see
- What it is: Your browser bookmarks shown as cards, each with a picture of its page.
- How it works: Library → a bookmark folder → Cards. A slider sets the card size. The picture is taken when you look at a bookmarked page, after you allow it once; a page you also kept in Latr uses that picture, which needs nothing. Give a folder a colour from its menu. Sort by Site A to Z, and searching looks through every bookmark, not only the folder you are in.
- Why it helps: You recognise a page by how it looks faster than by its title.
2. Put bookmarks in your own order
- What it is: Drag a bookmark before or after another, or onto a folder to file it there.
- How it works: Works under Browser order and outside a search. Move up and Move down in a row’s menu do the same from the keyboard. Every move is written to the browser’s real bookmarks.
3. The Library is only the Library
- What it is: The Library and Reminders are two places again.
- How it works: The Library has no switch, so it never turns into Reminders under the cursor. Reminders switches between Upcoming, Done and All.
4. A quick switch that forgives typos
- What it is: Ctrl+K finds a tab from a few letters in order -
gprfinds GitHub pull request. - How it works: It also lists tabs you closed recently, to bring back in one press, and with the optional history permission it searches your history too. That permission is asked for only when you press the button that needs it.
5. Smarter rules and duplicate checks
- What it is: Rules that group tabs can combine conditions, and duplicate checks can ignore tracking tags.
- How it works: In a rule,
docs & githubneeds both, andre:starts a regular expression. The duplicate check has a mode that treatspage?utm_source=xandpageas the same page.
6. Keep a page from a key
- What it is: A keyboard command that keeps the page you are on in the library, with no time.
- How it works: It ships unbound; set a key at
chrome://extensions/shortcuts.
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A focus timer, bookmarks you can actually edit, and every action says so
Deep work now goes round a loop, your browser bookmarks stopped being a one-way import, and nothing in Latr changes silently any more.
1. Focus sessions, and the Pomodoro
- What it is: The hold deep work already did, running as a cycle - 25 minutes of focus, 5 of break, a longer one every fourth round. All four numbers are yours.
- How it works: A card at the top of the popup shows the leg, the round and the time left, with Pause, Skip and End now. Reminders wait through a focus leg and arrive on the break. It keeps running with the popup closed, through a laptop sleep and across a restart, because a session is stored as the time it ends rather than as a countdown.
- Why it helps: A timer that holds your notifications through the break is holding them through the one part of the hour you were free.
2. Sites that stay shut while you work
- What it is: A list of sites that will not open during a focus leg. Off until you name one.
- How it works: Settings → Notifications → Sites to hold shut. During focus those sites show a page saying how long is left; during a break they open normally. Subdomains are covered, so one entry is enough. The way out is on the page rather than hidden - End now ends the session.
- Why it helps: A blocker you have to fight is one you turn off. Note Latr redirects the tab rather than filtering the network, which is what keeps “read and change all your data on all websites” off the install dialog.
3. Minutes, not streaks
- What it is: A 60-day record of your focus legs, drawn on the home page.
- How it works: Minutes and sessions, with a bar for each of the last seven days. Minutes from a session you cut short still count.
- Why it helps: There is no streak, no score and no comparison with last week - those are the shapes that turn a record into a verdict. Nothing here gets worse for missing a day.
4. Your bookmarks, managed from the library
- What it is: The browser’s own bookmark tree is a facet in the library, and every verb on it writes.
- How it works: Make folders, add links from a pasted list, rename, change an address, move, delete - with an undo, since Chrome has none of its own - select many, and drag pages between your bookmarks and the shelf either way. The permission is still optional and still asked for at the click.
- Why it helps: Importing one way made a bookmark manager somewhere data goes to stay.
5. Lists you can put in an order
- What it is: A sort control on the library and on saved windows.
- How it works: By name, or by when you kept it - each with its own direction, because “newest first” and “A first” are not the same default. Saved windows sort by when they were taken, their name, or how many tabs are in them.
6. Every action says it happened
- What it is: One place the product tells you something worked, in every screen.
- How it works: A message appears near what you did rather than at the edge of the page, carrying its undo where one exists. The row you changed lights briefly so you can see which one, and a deleted row gets out of the way before the list closes over it. A change made in one Latr screen redraws the others, so a second tab is never showing yesterday’s list.
- Why it helps: Four screens each had their own status line parked somewhere the eye was not.
7. Long lists stay quick
- What it is: Nothing in Latr is unbounded any more.
- How it works: A row’s menu is built when you first open it rather than when the row is drawn, and each list draws a block with a Show more below it. Measured at a thousand open tabs, the popup went from 55,677 elements to 2,545. Select all still means everything your search leaves, not what happens to be on screen.
Fixed
- The calendar drew the 3rd to the 9th of the current month as if they were in the future.
- Quiet hours advertised its Pro ceiling before you had set a single window.
- The row menu closed itself when you scrolled inside it, which made some menus look dead.
- Delete everything left saved windows behind, and told a windows-only profile there was nothing to delete.
- A multi-line paste into the bookmark field lost every title but the last.
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Tab groups, tabs that sort themselves, and a popup that shows more
Latr now organises the tabs you have open, not only the ones you close - and every screen got more room for the things you came for.
1. Tab groups, from Latr
- What it is: Your browser’s tab groups appear in Open tabs under their names and colours, and each has its own menu.
- How it works: Group every loose tab by site or by kind, collapse or expand them all, or take them apart. A group can be moved to another window, bookmarked or closed. Two things only Latr does: Remind me closes a group and brings it back, as a group, at the time you pick; Keep in a folder and close files every page in a library folder of the same name, and that folder’s menu has Open as a tab group for the way back.
- Why it helps: A group used to last as long as its window. Now it can wait for you.
2. Tabs that sort themselves
- What it is: Rules that put a page into a named group the moment it opens -
github.cominto Code. - How it works: Settings → Organising → Group tabs automatically. Separate sites with commas, start a term with
!to leave it out, or withtitle:to match the page title. The card shows how many open tabs a pattern matches while you type. Tabs you grouped yourself and pinned tabs are never moved. Five rules are free; with Pro, a rule set can switch itself on by weekday and time. - Why it helps: The tab strip stays in order without you doing the ordering.
3. Fewer copies of the same tab
- What it is: Close a duplicate as it opens. Off until you turn it on.
- How it works: When a link opens a page you already have open, Latr closes the new copy and takes you to the one you had. A notification says so, and one click opens it again. Addresses you type, bookmarks and restored windows are never touched. Anything Latr does on its own shows at the top of Open tabs for half an hour, with the undo beside it.
- Why it helps: Forty tabs is often twenty pages, twice.
4. Windows you can find again
- What it is: Saved windows show what is in them while they are closed - the sites as small marks and the tab groups as coloured chips.
- How it works: Open here instead of this window replaces the window you are in, after saving it first so you can go back. Save a window when you close it keeps any window of two or more tabs as it closes. Folded groups come back folded.
- Why it helps: A list of dates is a list you have to open one by one.
5. Jump to any tab by typing
- What it is: Open tabs are in the command palette (Ctrl+K), and a new shortcut you can assign opens Latr straight onto it.
- Why it helps: Finding a tab should take three letters, not a scroll through the tab strip.
6. More room, everywhere
- The popup shows about one more reminder: the four sections sit in a single row, and search takes the place of the list’s title once the list is long.
- Open tabs rows are shorter and show each site’s mark instead of a grey dot.
- Home opens on the day: a greeting, when the next thing is due, counts that take you to each page, and what is coming up under Today and Tomorrow.
- The library shows each site’s mark, the folder, and how long a page has waited.
- Empty sections offer the one thing that fills them.
7. Smaller things
- Two local development servers on different ports are no longer treated as the same page.
- On Firefox, a saved window now comes back with its tab groups.
- With Pro, a tab limit can put the tab you have not used longest to sleep instead of opening a new window.
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Know it saved, know how long it is, clear the desk
The keyboard shortcut now tells you it worked where you are looking, a saved page tells you how long it is, and a day of tabs can be put away in one go.
1. The shortcut confirms on the page
- What it is: Press the shortcut and a small note appears at the top of the page you just saved, with Undo and Change time.
- How it works: It stays out of the way and disappears on its own; hover it and it waits for you. If Latr is set to close the tab once it is saved, the note says so and offers Keep it open. Pages the browser protects still get the system notification, and you can switch back to it in Settings.
- Why it helps: A notification in the corner of the screen was easy to miss, so the shortcut felt like it might not have worked.
2. Saved pages know how long they are
- What it is: Rows show how long a page takes to read and how far down you were - “12 min read · 68% through”.
- How it works: It is measured on your device when you save, in the same step that remembers your place on the page. Type
read:quick,read:mediumorread:longin search to find something that fits the time you have. - Why it helps: A list of articles to read later is only useful if you can pick one that fits a five-minute break.
3. Clear the desk in Open tabs
- What it is: Three new actions for the tabs you have open.
- How it works: Sleep inactive tabs frees their memory without closing them. Tick two tabs and Side by side puts them in two windows filling the screen. Wrap up the day saves every window as it is, closes them, and brings each one back tomorrow morning - with a note to yourself about what comes first, if you want one. Wrap-up is also a keyboard command you can assign.
- Why it helps: Closing the browser at night felt like losing your work. Now it is saved first, named, and on its way back.
4. A page to your phone
- What it is: Open on your phone in a reminder’s menu shows a QR code.
- How it works: Scan it and your phone opens the page at the place you were reading. The code is drawn on your device; nothing is sent anywhere.
- Why it helps: Moving from the desk to the sofa should not mean hunting for the same page again.
5. Smaller things
- The countdown on each reminder now shows how much of the wait is left.
- Meeting links from Google Meet, Zoom and Teams can open in front of you at their last early warning, so you join on time. Off unless you turn it on.
- Select pages in the library and share them as one link. Pages you kept arrive kept, not as reminders.
- Save the link you copied in the command palette (Ctrl+K). Latr asks to read your clipboard only when you choose it.
- The pet’s own screen says what its mood is about.
- Checkboxes work when you click their middle, and look like checkboxes rather than round buttons.
Notes: Pro adds a reading speed of your own, three or four tabs side by side, automatic sleep for idle tabs, and folders to file into from the note on the page. Nothing moved into the paid tier, and no reminder behaves differently if a licence lapses. The one new permission, reading the clipboard, is optional and asked for only when you use it, so updating does not ask you to approve anything.
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See it before you buy it
A paid feature you cannot look at is a paid feature nobody can want. This release is about that.
1. Try any theme without a licence
- What it is: The theme gallery in Settings works on a free install.
- How it works: Click any theme and the whole of Latr wears it immediately - the popup, the calendar, the settings page you are standing on. Nothing is saved and nothing is set: close the page and you are back where you were. A licence is what makes the choice stick.
- Why it helps: Eight themes drawn as a row of dimmed swatches told you a paid feature existed. It could not tell you whether you liked it.
2. Hear the notification sounds too
- What it is: A sound you can actually play, in the same card that describes them.
- How it works: Pick one from the list and press Preview. It is the real sound, at the real volume, through the same path a reminder uses.
- Why it helps: Same reason. “Six notification sounds” is a sentence; a sound is a sound.
Notes: everything that writes a Pro setting is still locked - the previews above show a feature without saving one. Nothing moved into the paid tier, nothing moved out of it, and no reminder behaves differently. Multi-seat licences are now listed on the pricing page for anyone buying for a team.
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Tabs you keep, and tabs you forget
Latr has always been able to answer “bring this back at four o’clock”. This release is about the two questions either side of that one: “keep this, I have no idea when” and “I have not looked at this in a week, deal with it”.
1. Save something with no time at all
- What it is: Someday - a reminder you keep without scheduling.
- How it works: In the save-a-window sheet, turn on Keep them with no time. They go into your list under a Someday badge, sorted below everything that has a time, and nothing fires until you give them one. Any session can be put on the shelf later from its menu, and taken off it by choosing Move them all to….
- Why it helps: Plenty of tabs are worth keeping and have no deadline. The only way to keep one before this was to invent a time you did not mean, and an invented time goes off.
2. A saved window is one thing you can name
- What it is: Sessions have names, and a menu that acts on all of them at once.
- How it works: Save a window and it appears as a single row. From its menu you can rename it, move them all to one new time, keep them with no time, open them all, or delete the lot with one undo. A named session shows its name with the tab count beside it.
- Why it helps: “6 tabs, saved Tuesday” tells you nothing a week later. “Lisbon trip” does.
3. Latr can close the tab for you
- What it is: Close the tab once it is saved, on the Ways to save a reminder card.
- How it works: Off by default. Turn it on and every way of saving - the popup, the keyboard shortcut, the right-click menu, the address bar keyword - files the page and closes the tab in the same motion. It only ever closes the tab the reminder is actually about, so a right-clicked link never closes the page you are reading.
- Why it helps: “Close the tab, it comes back” was a thing you still had to do the first half of yourself.
4. Tabs you have forgotten
- What it is: Latr can save and close tabs you have not looked at in a long time.
- How it works: Off by default, and it asks permission before it can see your tabs at all. Choose how long a tab has to sit untouched, list any sites it must never touch, and it does the rest on a quiet schedule. It will never take a pinned tab, the tab you are on, one that is playing sound, or a page no reminder could reopen. What it takes arrives in your list as one session, kept under Someday, so nothing it does can interrupt you.
- Why it helps: The tabs you have genuinely forgotten are the ones you will never get round to closing, and they are the reason the window stops being usable.
5. Autosave this window
- What it is: A snapshot of the tabs you have open, kept on this device.
- How it works: Off by default. Turn it on and Latr keeps the last few snapshots of your window, skipping any moment where nothing has changed since the last one. Open them all back up from Your data, or take one by hand whenever you like. A snapshot is not a reminder: it has no time and nothing in it will ever go off.
- Why it helps: It is the difference between losing a window and reopening it.
6. More ways to say when
- What it is: Three additions to Repeat.
- How it works: Every hour, for the things that need chasing through a day. Certain days of the week, so a Monday-Wednesday-Friday standup is one reminder rather than three. And the custom interval now takes weeks and months as well as days, so a quarterly review is “every 3 months” rather than 90 days, which is not the same thing and drifts apart within a year.
- Why it helps: A repeat you cannot express is a repeat you end up doing by hand.
7. More keys, and fewer duplicates
- What it is: Three more keyboard shortcuts, and a command that clears duplicate tabs.
- How it works: Alongside the existing shortcut there are now separate ones for an hour from now, this evening and tomorrow morning. They ship unbound - pick your own keys on Chrome’s shortcuts page - because any key we chose would be one taken from something you already use. And
Ctrl/Cmd+Khas a new entry, Close duplicate tabs, which clears the redundant copies in the window. It leaves pinned tabs, the tab you are on, and anything that is not an ordinary web page. - Why it helps: Getting a tab out of the way should be one key, not a menu.
8. A tour, and a tour of what you paid for
- What it is: Guided pointers to the controls themselves.
- How it works: On first install, four coach marks point at the real buttons in the popup. Redeem a Pro licence and a second short tour walks you through what it just unlocked. Both are in About Latr if you want them again, and both can be skipped at any point.
- Why it helps: The gestures Latr is built on have no button to discover, and a page describing a control cannot point at it.
Notes: both of the automatic features in this release are off until you turn them on, and both ask for permission to see your tabs at the moment you turn them on rather than at install. Neither can ever fire a notification on its own: an autosave snapshot has no time, and a forgotten tab is kept under Someday. Nothing here changes how an existing reminder behaves, and nothing new is behind the paid tier.
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The tab comes back on its own
Until now a reminder arrived as a notification, and the page came back when you clicked it. That is fine when you are at the machine and looking. It is not fine the rest of the time - and the rest of the time is most of it. A notification you never saw was a reminder that did nothing, and Latr’s whole pitch is that you do not have to be the one keeping track.
From 1.4.0 the tab comes back by itself.
1. The page reopens, whether or not you catch the notification
- What it is: When the moment arrives, Latr opens the page - quietly, in a background tab - and shows the notification as well.
- How it works: The tab opens without taking you away from whatever you are doing. You find out the usual way: the notification, and the count on the toolbar icon. The page is simply already there when you go looking, opened at the spot you stopped reading, exactly as clicking the notification has always done.
- Why it helps: “Close the tab, it comes back” was true only if you were watching. Now it is true.
2. You decide how much it interrupts
- What it is: When the moment arrives, the first setting in Notifications.
- How it works: Three choices. Open the tab quietly, and notify me - the new default. Open the tab and switch to it, for the reminders you want to be pulled into. Only notify me - I’ll open it myself, which is exactly how Latr behaved before this release, for anyone who preferred it.
- Why it helps: How much a reminder should interrupt you is a question only you can answer, and it is not the same answer for everybody.
3. A reopened tab is no longer filed as missed
- What it is: Recent activity, and the “you missed some reminders” banner, now tell the truth about a reminder whose tab came back.
- How it works: A reminder only counts as missed if nothing reached you - or if it fired late, because the browser was shut when it was due, which is still worth saying out loud. If the page reopened, it reached you, even in the case where the notification itself failed.
- Why it helps: Being told you missed something that is open in front of you is the product being wrong about its own work.
4. Twelve tabs do not arrive at once
- What it is: Reminders that come due together are spread out instead of opening as one wall of tabs.
- How it works: Five tabs reopen at a time. Anything else due in that moment waits a few minutes and comes back on the next pass, then the next, until the queue has drained - so a Friday afternoon’s worth of tabs snoozed to Monday morning arrives over a few minutes rather than all at nine o’clock. Nothing is skipped and nothing is lost; a reminder that waited is not marked missed for waiting.
- Why it helps: Getting the whole pile back at once is the thing you were trying to escape by snoozing it.
5. Two clicks to file the tab you are on
- What it is: The times you use most are on the popup itself now, above the queue.
- How it works: Open Latr and the four one-tap times are right there under the page you are on - the same times the full form offers, including any you have set up yourself. One click files the tab and closes the popup. The form is still one click away when you want a note, a tag or a repeat.
- Why it helps: Filing the page you are on used to mean opening the form even when you knew exactly when you wanted it back.
Notes: this changes behaviour on update rather than only on a fresh install, which is deliberate - the old behaviour was the reminder being conditional, and leaving existing installs on it would mean the people who have been using Latr longest are the ones it keeps failing. Nothing opens while you are asleep: quiet hours still hold the whole delivery, tab and notification together. Reminders that are paused, and early warnings, are unchanged - an early warning is a heads-up about something that has not happened yet, so it has no tab to bring back.
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The keyboard shortcut can ask you when
Alt+Shift+Ysaves the tab you are on at your default time and opens nothing - that is the whole point of it, and it has not changed. What is new is that you can now tell it to ask instead, for the times when “an hour from now” is not the answer.1. One switch decides what the key does
- What it is: Ask for a time when I use the keyboard shortcut, in Settings under Ways to save a reminder, directly beside the row describing the key.
- How it works: Off - the default, and what every install does today - the shortcut saves straight away at your default time and nothing appears but the confirmation. On, the same key opens Latr with the reminder form already up and the cursor in the When field, so you can type tomorrow 9am or next tuesday 5pm and press Enter.
- Why it helps: The fastest way to save a tab and the only way to say when it should come back were two different gestures, and which one you want depends on the tab rather than on you. Now the key is whichever of the two you use more.
2. It is the same form, resolving the same defaults
- What it is: No second composer, no second set of rules.
- How it works: The shortcut hands the save to the popup you already know: your defaults, your site rules and your templates apply in exactly the same order, the page title and the page you are on are already filled in, and everything the form offers - tags, folders, repeats, early warning, the calendar handoff - is there because it is the same form.
- Why it helps: A shortcut with its own private idea of what a reminder starts as is a second product to learn, and a second place for the two to disagree.
3. It never costs you the reminder
- What it is: The shortcut still saves, even where the browser will not let an extension open its own window.
- How it works: Opening the popup from a keypress needs Chrome 127 or Firefox 118. On anything older - or in the moment when there is no focused window to open it in - the key does what it has always done and saves at your default time, rather than appearing to do nothing at all.
- Why it helps: A keystroke that silently fails is worse than one that saves a reminder you can still edit afterwards.
Notes: the switch is off on update, so nothing about your
Alt+Shift+Ychanges unless you go and change it. The right-click menu and theremaddress-bar keyword are untouched either way - both of those already have somewhere to put a time. The tip in the popup footer and the description on the settings card both follow the switch, so neither ever describes a key that behaves differently. -
Latr now calls itself what it is
Nothing about how a reminder behaves has changed in this release. What changed is the words - the name in your extensions list, the line under it in the store, and one sentence Latr says to you after it has worked a few times. All three were saying something slightly beside the point, and all three are in every one of the nine languages Latr ships in.
1. The name says what the product does
- What it is: Latr is now listed as Latr - Tab reminder: remind me about this tab, in place of Latr - Remind me about this page.
- How it works: The name comes from the same translated catalogue the rest of the interface does, so it is the tab wording in every language - an diesen Tab erinnern, me rappeler cet onglet, напомнить об этой вкладке - and each one is word for word the extension’s own right-click menu item. The interface still says “Latr” everywhere; only the listed name is longer.
- Why it helps: People look for this by describing the job - tab reminder, snooze a tab, remind me about this tab - and the old name matched almost none of it. Naming the thing you came looking for is the difference between being found and being scrolled past.
2. The description leads on the job, not the mechanism
- What it is: The one-line description is now “Snooze a tab for later. One keystroke sets a reminder, and Latr reopens that exact page where you left off. Free, no account.”
- How it works: Same catalogue, same nine languages, each written in that language’s own words rather than translated clause by clause from English.
- Why it helps: It answers the two questions people actually have before installing anything - what does it cost, and do I have to sign up - and it spends its last words on the part nothing else does: you come back to the place on the page, not the top of it.
3. The review prompt asks for a review, not a compliment
- What it is: After Latr has got you to a few things on time, it asks once whether you would leave a review. That prompt used to end “Worth 20 seconds to say so?”. It now reads “Worth 20 seconds to review it?”
- How it works: Everything else about it is unchanged: it appears only after a reminder has actually fired and you have clicked it, it is dismissible, and saying no means you are never asked again.
- Why it helps: Say so asks you to agree with the nice thing the sentence just said, which is not a fair question and is not the one we meant. Asking for a review and leaving the verdict entirely to you is the honest version, and it is the only version the stores permit.
Notes: this is a strings-only release. No permission, setting, stored reminder or notification behaviour is touched, and nothing needs to be re-saved or re-imported. Updating changes the name shown at
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Latr looks like the product it is
Nothing about when a reminder fires changed here. What changed is everything you look at while setting one: the colours, the edges between surfaces, and the two screens - the queue and the calendar - that had quietly turned into spreadsheets.
1. One palette, and it is the one on latr.page
- What it is: Warm paper, near-black ink, and a single amber that means a moment is arriving. The indigo is gone.
- How it works: Every colour in the interface is now measured rather than described - the contrast of each pair is checked on every surface it can land on, in both light and dark, by the same test suite that checks the code. The “fires within the hour” badge used to be the least readable text in Latr while marking its most urgent state; it is now six times easier to read.
- Why it helps: Latr was cool grey and indigo, the site selling it was warm paper and amber, and the icon on your toolbar was neither. One product should not have three opinions about what it looks like.
2. Edges you can actually see, and a dark mode built like one
- What it is: Borders, panels, menus and text fields that are visible in both themes.
- How it works: Dark mode is now four steps of surface rather than three, with the page darker than the panels and a text field recessed below the page, so a field looks like something you can type into without needing a bright ring around it. Every border is held to a floor measured against all four surfaces - including the lightest one, the pop-up menu, which nothing had ever checked.
- Why it helps: “The borders aren’t properly visible” was a real report with a real cause: in light mode the divider between things sat barely above the background. Menus and the command palette had the same problem in dark mode, in reverse.
3. The queue is a list again, and the calendar is a month
- What it is: Reminder rows without hairlines between them, titles that fit, priority written as a word, and a calendar drawn as one panel.
- How it works: A row’s title had 131 pixels while the buttons next to it had 139, which is why reminders truncated mid-word regardless of how short you named them; the countdown keeps the top corner and the row’s controls move to the line below. Priority was three ascending bars whose meaning was only reachable by hovering - it now says High, Critical or Low. The month was 42 individually outlined boxes; it is one grid with shared lines, today marks the date rather than ringing the whole cell, and reminders inside a day are a dot and a line of text rather than a filled bar.
- Why it helps: A list of things is not a table, and a week with three reminders in it should not look like a bar chart of how busy each day was.
4. Latr asks once whether you would review it
- What it is: A single prompt in the popup, after Latr has actually got you to three things on time.
- How it works: It counts notifications you clicked - a reminder that fired into an empty room proves nothing. It appears once, both answers dismiss it permanently, and it never appears at all on an install that came from no store we publish to.
- Why it helps: Ratings are the one thing that decides whether people find an extension, and they cannot be written by us. Asking after the product has demonstrably worked is the only version of that question worth asking.
Notes: Pro’s marker is amber rather than blue, and a locked feature is no longer greyed out - dimming the thing somebody would be paying for made the paid tier the least readable text on the page. Custom themes now colour their own text fields, which they never did. And the last step of the welcome tour opens the popup before it closes itself, instead of just closing a tab.
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A reminder comes back to where you were
A tab is three things: a page, an intention, and a place on that page. Latr already replaced the first two. This release is the third - and it needs no new permission to do it.
1. Reopens Where You Were on the Page
- What it is: A reminder returns you to the line you were reading, instead of the top of the page.
- How it works: When you save, Latr notes the text at the top of your screen. When the reminder opens, the browser scrolls straight back to it and highlights it. Saving from the top of a page stores nothing, because there is nothing to come back to.
- Why it helps: Losing your place is the reason a long article, a docs page or a half-read thread stays open in a tab for a week. Saving it no longer costs you the place.
2. It works everywhere you save, and everywhere you open
- What it is: One behaviour across every gesture, rather than a feature that only works from the toolbar.
- How it works: All four ways of saving record it - the toolbar popup,
Alt+Shift+Y, the right-click menu and theremaddress-bar keyword - and every way of reopening applies it: clicking the notification, the row menu, the command palette and the calendar. - Why it helps: A feature that works from one place and not the others reads as broken rather than as partial.
3. Nothing new leaves your device
- What it is: The same privacy position as every other release.
- How it works: The remembered line is stored with the reminder in your own browser. Reopening uses a standard browser link that scrolls to text - your browser does the scrolling, so Latr never needs permission to read or change the pages you save. It is a setting, under Appearance → Where you were, and you can switch it off.
- Why it helps: “Your reminders never leave your device” and “a free install makes no network requests” are both still literally true.
Notes: scroll-to-text is a Chromium and Safari feature, so on Firefox a reminder opens the way it always has. If a page has changed since you saved it, or renders its text late, the reminder simply opens at the top - it is never worse off for having tried.
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Depth, in the places that had a ceiling
The largest release since 1.0! All Pro features add depth and customization while all core reminder functionality remains 100% free permanently.
1. Multiple Quiet Hours Windows (Pro)
- What it is: Set multiple quiet windows (e.g., overnight and during school run/meetings).
- How it works: Define your quiet windows in Settings. Two that touch - a night ending at 07:00 beside a block starting at 07:00 - are treated as one hold rather than two.
- Why it helps: Prevents non-urgent notifications from interrupting your sleep or family time.
2. Multiple Early Warnings on One Reminder (Pro)
- What it is: Get up to 3 advance warnings before a reminder is due.
- How it works: Set alerts for 1 day before, 1 hour before, and 15 minutes before on any reminder.
- Why it helps: Perfect for big deadlines or flight bookings where a single alert isn’t enough notice.
3. Custom Sound per Reminder (Pro)
- What it is: Assign a specific sound effect to an individual reminder.
- How it works: Choose a custom chime or sound file when saving or editing a reminder.
- Why it helps: Know immediately what a notification is for without looking at the screen.
4. Smart Snooze Suggestions
- What it is: Automatic suggestions for your favorite snooze duration.
- How it works: If you frequently snooze reminders to “Tomorrow morning”, Latr automatically suggests that preset first.
- Why it helps: Saves extra clicks when organizing your daily queue.
5. Custom Notification Text (Pro)
- What it is: Personalize notification titles and message text.
- How it works: Use placeholders like
{title},{note},{site}, and{time}in Settings to customize how notifications appear. - Why it helps: Make alerts match your preferred wording and information hierarchy.
6. Repeated Alerts for Urgent Reminders (Pro)
- What it is: High and Critical reminders can nag you if ignored.
- How it works: Re-triggers an alert after 5 to 60 minutes up to 3 times if un-answered (paused during quiet hours).
- Why it helps: Ensures critical deadlines aren’t forgotten if you leave your desk.
7. Enhanced Site Automation Rules & Rule Sets (Pro)
- What it is: Pre-fill site rules and group them into toggleable sets.
- How it works: Automatically set priority, warnings, and sounds for specific sites like
github.com. Toggle entire sets (e.g. “Work Rules”) off on weekends. - Why it helps: Automates repetitive settings and lets you disconnect off work hours.
8. Custom Categories & Subfolders (Pro)
- What it is: Custom site categories and 1-level subfolders (e.g.
Work > Project A). - How it works: Create custom categories and organize folders inside folders.
- Why it helps: Keeps complex projects cleanly structured without clutter.
9. Custom Default Views & Sorting (Pro)
- What it is: Customize saved view sort order and pick the default view Latr opens on.
- How it works: Order by date, name, or priority and set your primary starting view.
- Why it helps: Opens your queue exactly how you like to view your work.
10. Pause Repeating Reminders & Template Packs (Pro)
- What it is: Temporarily pause repeats and export setup packs for teammates.
- How it works: Pause a repeating series for vacation dates, or share your rules and templates via a single setup file.
- Why it helps: Avoid deleting and re-creating repeat rules, and onboard teammates in seconds.
11. Delivery History Log (Pro)
- What it is: Detailed logs of notification delivery status.
- How it works: Check whether each reminder was delivered, clicked, snoozed, or missed.
- Why it helps: Clear record of past reminder events.
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A repeat you can type, and a snooze that adds time
1. Type Repeats in Plain Language
- What it is: Set recurrence rules by typing natural phrases.
- How it works: Type “every weekday at 9:30am” or “every 3 days” into the time field. Latr automatically sets both the time and repeat frequency.
- Why it helps: Fast, single-step scheduling without navigating dropdown menus.
2. Improved Snooze Controls
- What it is: One-click snooze and smart time addition.
- How it works: Click Snooze right from any queue item row or notification. Adding “+15 min” always adds 15 minutes from the current time.
- Why it helps: Prevents accidental scheduling errors and lets you snooze items in one click.
3. Complete Backup & Restore Reliability
- What it is: Enhanced data backup and restoration.
- How it works: Backup files now safely preserve all 27 reminder fields, including folders, priorities, pinned time zones, and completed statuses.
- Why it helps: Restoring backups never loses custom settings or reminder tags.
4. Consistent Site Automation Rules
- What it is: Site rules work across all saving methods.
- How it works: Per-site rules apply whether you save via right-click, keyboard shortcut, address bar, or popup icon.
- Why it helps: Reliable automated rules regardless of how you capture the webpage.
5. Missed Notification Tracking
- What it is: Reliable tracking for missed alerts.
- How it works: If a notification fails to display (e.g. due to system sleep), it is recorded as “Missed” and highlighted in your activity feed.
- Why it helps: You never wonder if an alert went missing.
6. Bulk Editing & Settings Layout Improvements
- What it is: Bulk repeat/done actions and a cleaner settings layout.
- How it works: Select multiple reminders to update repeat schedules or mark them done together. Enjoy a redesigned, modern settings dashboard.
- Why it helps: Faster queue management and easier navigation.
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Done is not the same as fired
1. Mark as Done (Preserve Completed History)
- What it is: Separate “Mark Done” option alongside Delete.
- How it works: Select “Mark as done” from the item menu to finish a task without deleting its historical record.
- Why it helps: Keeps your active list clean while letting you review completed accomplishments later.
2. Automatic Follow-up Reminders
- What it is: Auto-create follow-up tasks when a reminder is completed.
- How it works: Enable follow-up on a task (e.g., “Apply for job”). When marked done, Latr automatically creates a follow-up (“Check response”) for next week with the same notes and tags.
- Why it helps: Ensures multi-step tasks are never forgotten.
3. Time Zone Lock for Repeat Reminders
- What it is: Attach repeating reminders to a specific clock time zone.
- How it works: Lock standing meetings to their home time zone (e.g. 9am London time).
- Why it helps: Prevents meeting times from shifting when you travel or when daylight savings changes.
4. Simplified Settings & Re-organized Navigation
- What it is: Plain-language labels for settings and features.
- How it works: Replaced ambiguous headers with clear terms like “Light or dark mode”, “Colour themes”, and “Organising”.
- Why it helps: The settings page is seven cards long. Typing two letters beats scrolling it.
5. Cleaner Month Calendar Layout
- What it is: Improved visual calendar layout and empty states.
- How it works: Task counter badges appear only when items exist, with a helpful intro screen for new users.
- Why it helps: Reduces clutter and makes monthly planning clearer.
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Latr is out
Welcome to the official 1.0 release of Latr! Latr is the browser extension that reopens the exact webpage you need right when you need it.
1. Save Webpages 4 Easy Ways
- What it is: Four fast ways to save any webpage with a reminder time.
- How it works: Highlight a date on any webpage and right-click, press Alt+Shift+Y, type
remin your address bar, or click the toolbar icon. - Why it helps: Pick whichever save method is closest to your cursor.
2. Tags, Folders & Filtered Views
- What it is: Organize your saved webpages by project or category.
- How it works: Create color tags, group links into folders, and save custom filter views (e.g., “Work Tasks” or “Overdue”).
- Why it helps: Keep your queue clean and find important links instantly.
3. Smart Repeat Schedules
- What it is: 9 flexible repeat rules tailored for work and home routines.
- How it works: Repeat by daily, weekly, “the 3rd Thursday of the month”, “last working day”, or custom day intervals.
- Why it helps: Work reminders won’t trigger on weekends, and monthly deadlines adapt to short months.
4. Site Automation & Saved Templates
- What it is: Automate repetitive reminder setups for your favorite websites.
- How it works: Set site rules (e.g.
github.comdefaults to 1 day with a Work tag) or save reusable task templates. - Why it helps: Eliminates repetitive typing and dropdown selections.
5. Quiet Hours & Missed Alert Recovery
- What it is: Pause notifications during sleep or focus time.
- How it works: Set quiet hours (e.g. 10pm - 7am). Any reminder due while your laptop is shut or in quiet hours appears when you return.
- Why it helps: Keeps your sleep peaceful without missing important reminders.
6. Month Calendar Dashboard
- What it is: A full-page visual calendar for all your upcoming reminders.
- How it works: Open the calendar tab to view tasks by due date, overdue counts, repeating schedules, and pinned items.
- Why it helps: Complete visibility into your schedule for the month ahead.
7. Multi-Language & 100% Private
- What it is: Localized in 9 languages with zero server tracking.
- How it works: Supports English, German, French, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, and Chinese. All data stays inside your browser.
- Why it helps: Fast, secure, and completely private reminder tracking.
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Weekday and monthly repeats, notes, and Outlook
1. Weekday & Monthly Repeat Rules
- What it is: Smart repeat options for work routines and monthly dates.
- How it works: Choose “Every weekday” (Mon-Fri) or “Monthly”. Monthly reminders on the 31st automatically adjust to the 28th in February.
- Why it helps: Work standups won’t fire on Saturdays, and monthly tasks never skip short months.
2. Personal Notes on Notifications
- What it is: Add custom notes to any saved webpage reminder.
- How it works: Type a note (e.g. “Compare with Best Buy price”) when saving a page. The note displays inside the notification pop-up.
- Why it helps: Reminds you of the exact reason you saved the link.
3. Outlook & Apple Calendar Handoff
- What it is: 1-Click export to Microsoft Outlook and Apple Calendar.
- How it works: Export reminders directly to Outlook.com, Outlook Work/School, Google Calendar, or
.icscalendar files. - Why it helps: Ensures important alerts reach your phone calendar.
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Nine languages, right-to-left, and the command palette
1. Multi-Language Support (9 Languages)
- What it is: Full interface translation and natural language date parsing.
- How it works: Latr parses dates in German, English, French, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, and Chinese.
- Why it helps: Type natural phrases in your native language (e.g. nächsten Dienstag in German).
2. Right-to-Left (RTL) Layout Mirroring
- What it is: Native right-to-left layout design.
- How it works: Automatically mirrors interface elements for RTL scripts like Arabic or Hebrew.
- Why it helps: Arabic and Hebrew read right to left, and a layout that does not mirror puts every control on the wrong side of the screen.
3. Quick Command Palette (Ctrl+K)
- What it is: Fast search and action bar.
- How it works: Press
Ctrl+K(orCmd+Kon Mac) to search saved pages, trigger actions, or schedule new links. - Why it helps: Access any reminder or command instantly without mouse clicks.
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The queue comes first
1. Queue-First Extension Interface
- What it is: Redesigned popup prioritizing your pending reminder queue.
- How it works: Opening the extension popup displays your active reminder list immediately, with the capture input compact at the top.
- Why it helps: Gives you instant visibility into your upcoming tasks without scrolling.
2. Instant Undo for Deletions
- What it is: 6-second undo bar after deleting a reminder.
- How it works: Deleting an item shows a quick “Undo” option for 6 seconds instead of asking for confirmation.
- Why it helps: Keeps workflow fast while making accidental deletes easy to recover.
3. Safer Item Action Menu
- What it is: Clean dropdown menu for reminder row actions.
- How it works: Row actions (Edit, Snooze, Delete) are safely grouped under a single
⋯menu icon. - Why it helps: Prevents accidental deletion clicks when moving your mouse across the list.
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