Guide
Everything the extension does, in the order you are likely to meet it. Nothing here needs an account, and nothing here sends anything anywhere.
About a minute, and it ends with a real notification.
After installing, click the puzzle-piece icon in Chrome's toolbar and pin Latr. The icon is where the queue lives, and it carries a countdown badge to the next reminder.
A product page, an article, a repo's releases page. Latr saves the page along with the time, so the reminder is only useful if the page is.
The composer opens with the page already filled in. In the
When field, type something plain — in 2 minutes
works and is the fastest way to see the whole loop. Latr shows you the exact
date and time it understood, underneath the field, before you save.
A desktop notification arrives with the page title. Click it and the page reopens in a new tab. That is the whole product; everything below is convenience on top of it.
Nothing happened? Notifications may be blocked for Chrome at the operating-system level. Latr shows a banner in the popup when it detects this — and the troubleshooting list has the exact setting to change on Windows and macOS.
All four create the same kind of reminder. Use whichever is closest to your hand.
The one worth learning.
Select the date where it is written on the page — “tickets go on sale next Friday at 9am” — then right-click and choose Remind me about this. Latr reads the time out of the words you selected and saves the page with it. Nothing opens, nothing is retyped.
When the time is in your head, not on the page.
The popup opens with the current tab already filled in. Click Remind me about this page to open the composer, type when, and save.
The fastest one.
Saves the tab you are on for an hour from now. Nothing opens at all. If that combination is taken by another extension, rebind it at chrome://extensions/shortcuts — Latr reads whatever it is actually bound to and shows you that, everywhere it mentions it.
Hands already on the keyboard.
Type rem, press Tab or space, then a phrase: rem next tuesday 5pm. The same box also searches the reminders you already have, so it doubles as a way to find one.
Saving a page you already have a reminder for shows an
Already saved for this page notice with a link to edit the
existing one, rather than quietly stacking a second copy. Two addresses count as
the same page after tracking parameters, www., a trailing slash and
the fragment are ignored.
Type it how you would say it, or pick it.
The When field understands plain language:
tomorrow 9am, next tuesday 5pm, in 3 hours,
friday evening, 25 dec. Underneath it, Latr prints the
exact date and time it understood — so an ambiguous phrase is caught before you
save, not after it fires at the wrong moment.
This works in all nine of Latr's languages, and the field follows your browser's language rather than guessing. If a time zone is named in the text you highlighted, it is converted to yours and the reminder says so.
Prefer to point at it? The calendar icon opens Latr's own date and time picker. It is not the browser's — that one cannot be styled, has no confirm button, and fails silently on a half-typed value. Quick options for “this evening”, “tomorrow morning” and “this weekend” sit at the top of it.
Add a note while you are there. Three days later, “Sony WH-1000XM5 | Best Buy” does not tell you whether you meant to check the price or compare it. Your note shows in the notification and is searchable.
Everything pending, soonest first.
.ics, delete. Deleting is
undoable and never asks you to confirm.
Nine rules, in the composer under More.
| Rule | What it does |
|---|---|
| Daily | Every day at the same time. |
| Every weekday | Monday to Friday. A standup set as “daily” fires on Saturday, which is how people learn to ignore reminders. |
| Weekly | The same weekday, every week. |
| Monthly | The same date each month. Set it on the 31st and short months clamp to their last day rather than skipping. |
| Same weekday each month | “The third Thursday.” A different date every month, which plain monthly cannot express. Latr reads the ordinal and the weekday off the date you picked. |
| Last working day of the month | Payroll, invoices, timesheets. Steps back off a weekend. |
| Every 2 weeks | A fortnightly cycle. |
| Every 30 days | A monthly-ish cadence that ignores month lengths. |
| Every 90 days | Quarterly reviews, password rotations. |
Repeats step by calendar day and calendar month rather than by a fixed number of milliseconds, so a weekly 5pm reminder is still at 5pm after the clocks change.
Three different answers to “not now”.
All three are yours to name, in Settings → Tags and folders.
A tag is a coloured label you can filter by. Four come seeded — rename them, recolour them, delete them, add your own. A folder is one place a reminder lives. Neither is baked into the product: deleting a tag or a folder does not touch a single reminder, it simply leaves them unlabelled.
A saved view is a whole filter combination — status, kind, tag, folder, site and a search term — under a name, one click away. Filter the queue the way you want it, then save it from the button beside the filter. A view is not a container, so deleting one cannot lose a reminder.
For the things you set up the same way every time.
A rule matches a site and fills the composer in for you: how far
out, whether it repeats, which tag, which folder. Patterns are written as
github.com/*, *.google.com/*, or a bare
amazon.com meaning the whole site including subdomains.
* is the only wildcard.
A rule is a default, never a decision. It names itself in the composer so a self-filling form is never a mystery, Start from scratch is one click away, and it never applies when you are editing an existing reminder. The first matching rule wins, so the order of the list is yours.
A template is a page plus everything you would otherwise pick again for it. Save one from the composer, apply it from CtrlK in a keystroke. It stores how far out rather than a date, so it is never already in the past the second time you use it. A favourite page you keep coming back to is just a template with nothing else set.
The month, in its own tab.
Open it from the calendar icon in the popup's header. Four counts sit above the grid — due today, overdue, repeating, pinned — chosen because each one changes what you do next. Every reminder appears on the day it fires, with its tag colour, and clicking a day lists that day's reminders in full underneath.
It is deliberately read-only. Everything that changes a reminder lives in the popup's row menu, and a second set of edit controls here would be a second thing to keep in step.
A desktop notification arrives with the page title, your note if you wrote one, and two snooze buttons. Click the notification body and the exact page reopens in a new tab.
If your browser was closed when it was due, the reminder arrives the next time you open the browser — and it says that it is late. Latr uses the browser's own alarms, which only run while the browser runs. That is the honest limit of every extension with no server behind it, and it is why the calendar handoff below exists.
Nothing is deleted when it fires. It moves to Recently fired, so “did that actually go off?” has an answer for as long as you keep history.
#, which browsers never send to a server — so a shared reminder is
never seen by anyone's server, including ours. Your private note is deliberately
left out.
Two sources, in Settings → Your data.
A bookmark folder. Pick one and Latr turns it into reminders, spread out at whatever spacing you choose — all at once, an hour, a day or a week apart. Bookmark access is optional and is asked for from that card, which is why it never appears on the install prompt.
Any list of links. Paste it — a reading list, a Todoist export, a spreadsheet column, the body of an email. Anything link-shaped anywhere in the text is picked up, duplicates within one paste are dropped, and this route needs no permission at all.
Both preview before anything is created, and a whole import can be undone as one action.
Six cards, one per theme rather than one per switch.
The Privacy block in that last card is not a policy — it is the actual numbers: data sent, servers contacted, bytes stored on this device. They read 0 bytes and None because Latr makes no network requests.
| AltShiftY | Save the current tab for an hour from now. Works anywhere. |
|---|---|
| CtrlK | Command palette — search reminders, run any action, apply a template, or type a phrase to create one. Cmd+K on a Mac. |
| Esc | Close the composer, a dropdown, or the palette — whichever is open. |
| ↑↓ | Move through a dropdown or the palette. |
| Enter | Choose the highlighted item. |
| Tab | Every control is reachable this way, in reading order, with a visible focus ring. |
Every control is reachable by keyboard, with a visible focus ring and nothing hidden from the tab order. If you find something you cannot reach, that is a bug worth telling us about.
Something here unclear, or something the product does that this page does not cover? Say so — the guide is easier to fix than the confusion it causes.
Free, no account, and nothing leaves your device. About ten seconds to install, and one right-click to use.
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