How to use Latr

Your first reminder

Get started in 1 minute and watch your first reminder arrive.

1. 1

   Install and pin Latr to your toolbar

   After installing, click Chrome's puzzle-piece icon and pin Latr to your toolbar. The Latr icon displays a countdown badge to your next due item.

2. 2

   Open any webpage you want to revisit

   Open a product page, email deadline, news article, or status page.

3. 3

   Click the Latr icon and save a reminder

   Click Remind me about this page, type in 2 minutes into the When field, and save.

4. 4

   Close the tab and wait

   In 2 minutes, a desktop alert arrives. Click the alert to reopen the exact webpage!

Four ways to save one

Choose whichever method is easiest for you.

Duplicate Prevention: If you try to save a webpage that is already in your reminder queue, Latr alerts you with an Already saved for this page prompt so you can edit the existing reminder instead of creating duplicate entries.

Writing the time

Type dates in plain language or use the visual picker.

Plain-Language Date Parsing: Type times naturally like tomorrow 9am, next tuesday 5pm, in 3 hours, or friday evening. Latr displays the exact parsed date and time right underneath before you save.

Typed Repeats: Typing every weekday at 9:30am sets both the time and the repeat schedule simultaneously.

Visual Date & Time Picker: Click the calendar icon to open a visual picker with quick preset buttons for This evening, Tomorrow morning, and This weekend.

The queue

Manage all pending reminders in one clean, time-sorted list.

Search & Filter

Search by page title, URL, site domain, or your personal notes. Filter by status (Due Today, Overdue, Repeating, Pinned), domain category, or specific website.

Item Action Menu (⋯)

Click ⋯ on any item to open the webpage, mark done, edit time, duplicate, pin, snooze, copy share link, start a focus session on it, wait for a place instead of a time (Remind me when I am next here, which arms against a site rather than the clock), or delete. Deletions feature a 6-second instant undo, and anything you delete waits seven days in Settings → Your data → Recently deleted after that.

Mark as Done (History Preservation)

Marking a task "Done" stops future alerts while preserving your completed activity log so you can review what you accomplished.

Automatic Follow-up Reminders

Set a follow-up date (e.g. 1 week later). When you mark the primary task done, Latr automatically creates a follow-up reminder for the same page.

Pin Reminders

Pin important reminders to keep them at the top of your list.

Bulk Selection Actions

Select multiple reminders to change repeat schedules, reschedule dates, assign tags/folders, mark done, or delete in one batch with instant undo.

Keeping a page with no time

Not everything you want to come back to happens on a day.

Press Keep in the Latr header and the page is saved with no time attached. It arms no alarm and it never appears in the queue, because the queue is what is coming; kept pages live in the Library, which is a place you browse rather than a list that counts down.

The Library has a sidebar of folders and tags, a search over titles, notes and domains, and the picture Latr already took of each page when you saved it - hover it for a larger look with the page's title and address, here and in the popup. Pick several rows and you can file them, tag them, open them all, send them to a real bookmarks folder, or copy them out as Markdown.

And a kept page can become a reminder at any point. Choose Remind me… on its row, give it a time, and it stops being a bookmark: the alarm is armed, it moves into the queue and it will reopen itself. The row menu on a scheduled reminder does the same thing backwards, with Keep in library, remove time. A bookmark and a reminder are one record here, which is why the conversion costs nothing and loses nothing.

Whole windows, and the tabs you have open

For the afternoon that is fourteen tabs rather than one page.

Save a window, and close it

Save all tabs in the header offers every savable tab in the window with a tick beside each. Park it and the whole window is stored as one entry — tab groups keep their names and their colours — and optionally closed, so the memory goes back to your machine. Add a time and Latr reopens the window rather than a page in it.

Saved windows

The saved-windows page lists them, and every one can be renamed, opened up, pruned a tab at a time, filed in a folder or shared as a link. Naming one keeps it out of the automatic rotation: Latr keeps the last few windows it saved for you on its own, and a window you have named is never rotated away.

Merging and splitting

Two windows that turned out to be one thing merge into either of them, tab groups and all, and the empty one goes. The other direction is a selection: tick a few tabs inside a saved window and move them into a new one, or into another you already have.

Open tabs

The fourth section of the Latr panel is every tab you have open, across every window, with a filter, a close button per row and duplicates marked by name. A window can be merged into another, any tab can be sent to any window, and a tab you are not using can be put to sleep to get its memory back. This is the one screen that asks for permission, at the moment you first open it, and declining costs you nothing anywhere else.

Tab groups

The browser's own tab groups show up in Open tabs under their names and colours. From the section's menu you can group every loose tab by site or by kind, collapse or expand every group, or take them all apart. Each group has its own menu: Remind me closes the 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. It can also be collapsed, moved to another window, bookmarked, ungrouped or closed. A library folder's menu has Open as a tab group for the way back.

Grouping tabs automatically

Settings → Organising → Group tabs automatically. A rule is a pattern and a group name: github.com, !gist.github.com grouped as Code puts GitHub, but not gists, into a Code group the moment it opens. Separate sites with commas, start a term with ! to leave it out, or with title: to match words in the page title. The card shows how many open tabs a pattern matches while you type, and Group open tabs applies a rule to what is already open. Tabs you grouped yourself and pinned tabs are never moved. Five rules are free.

Jump to a tab by typing

Open tabs are in the command palette (Ctrl+K). Give the Jump to an open tab command a key in your browser's shortcut settings and it opens Latr straight onto the palette, open tabs first.

What Latr did on its own

Anything Latr does without a press - a rule grouping a tab, a duplicate closed - appears above the Open tabs list for half an hour, with Open again or Ungroup beside it.

The side panel

The same Latr, docked beside the page instead of hanging off the toolbar, so it stays open while you work. It shows forty rows where the popup shows five.

Repeating reminders

Advanced repeat schedules for daily routines and standing deadlines.

Time Zone Lock: Lock repeat reminders to a specific time zone so standing meetings (e.g., 9am London time) stay locked to that time zone even when you travel.

Quiet hours, focus sessions and snooze

Five ways to decide when a reminder is allowed to reach you. None of them ever throws one away.

Quiet hours

A window, or several, in which nothing arrives — overnight, or the block you keep for meetings. Anything due inside one waits and is delivered the moment the window ends. A set of windows that covers the whole day delivers rather than holding for ever, because a reminder that never arrives is worse than one that interrupts.

Pause reminders

Quiet hours started by hand, for an hour, two, four, or until tomorrow morning. The badge clears, nothing arrives, and everything held comes through when the session ends. It is the same hold, so nothing is cancelled and nothing is lost — it just arrives afterwards. There is a switch beside it that waits while the browser is full screen, which is the honest version of a presentation guard: a browser can tell us it is full screen, and nothing can tell us you are sharing a screen without access this extension will not ask for. A reminder waits half an hour that way at most, then arrives regardless.

A focus session, and the Pomodoro

Paused reminders going round a loop. Twenty-five minutes of focus, five of break and a longer one every fourth round is what it opens with; all four numbers are yours, and the next leg either starts on its own or waits to be told. Reminders wait through a focus leg and arrive on the break — that difference is the whole reason the two legs are told apart, because a break is the one part of the hour you were free. It runs with the popup closed, through a laptop sleep and across a restart, since a session is a time rather than a countdown. All of it is in the popup's Focus tab - the dial, the cycle, the controls, the sites a session blocks and your bundles - so starting one never means opening a page. Name some sites and they stay shut while you work, with the way out stated on the page rather than hidden. What it records is minutes and sessions, on your machine: no streak, no score and no comparison with last week.

Snooze

Push one later from the notification itself or from its row: fifteen minutes, an hour, tonight, tomorrow morning, or a time you type. Snoozing counts as an answer, so a reminder you have just pushed away stops asking again.

Early warning

A heads-up before the moment itself — fifteen minutes, an hour, a day, or several of those at once. It acknowledges nothing: being told a thing starts in an hour says nothing about the hour.

Morning and evening summary

Two optional moments, both off until you set a time. In the morning, what is due today; in the evening, what is still open and an offer to park the window for tomorrow. Neither keeps a score and neither counts a streak, and neither says anything when there is nothing to say — a note reading "0 reminders today" is furniture. One that lands inside quiet hours, paused reminders or a focus session is skipped rather than held, because a look at the day delivered in the evening is not a look at the day.

Waiting on another reminder Pro

One reminder can wait for another to be finished before its own clock starts.

Tags, folders and views

Three ways to group things, and you can make any of them without leaving the page you are on.

Tags are a colour and a word — Work, Reading, Shopping — and a row can carry one. The word is what a screen reader announces, so the colour is never the only thing saying which tag it is. Tags are never limited.

Folders go one level deep, as in Work › Client A. One level is a ceiling rather than an unfinished feature: a deeper tree is a file manager, and a file manager is what a queue is deliberately not. Folders are unlimited for everybody, and deleting one promotes whatever was inside it rather than taking it along.

Saved views are a filter you name — a tag and a status, say — so the list you keep rebuilding is one click away instead.

You make and rename all three from wherever you are working: the Library's sidebar, the folder control on a saved window, or the Organising card in Settings. They are the same list in all three places.

Rules and templates

For the sites you save from over and over.

A per-site rule names a domain — github.com, or github.com/* if you want to be explicit — and says what a new reminder saved there should open with: a tag, a folder, a priority, how far out, an early warning, a sound. A bare domain covers its subdomains, so github.com catches gist.github.com without you listing it. Rules apply to new reminders only; opening an old one shows what it actually holds, not what a rule written last week would have given it.

A template is the same idea without the site: a shape you save once — note, tag, priority, sound — and apply from Ctrl+K whenever you want it.

When several of these have an opinion at once, the strongest wins, and the order is fixed: what you typed, then the template, then the site rule, then your defaults. Settings draws that chain so you never have to guess which one won.

The calendar view

A dedicated visual monthly dashboard.

Click the calendar icon in the header to open a full month view displaying your scheduled due dates, overdue items, repeating tasks, and pinned reminders in a visual calendar grid.

When a reminder fires

A desktop notification pops up displaying the page title, your custom note, and quick snooze options. Click the notification to open the exact webpage in a new tab.

Browser Closed Behavior: If your browser was closed when a reminder was due, the alert pops up as soon as you reopen your browser and informs you that it arrived while you were away.

Getting reminders out

Five ways out, because a reminder you cannot take with you is not really yours.

Google Calendar and Outlook

One click puts a reminder on a calendar that reaches your phone. Latr only fires while the browser is running, so this is the channel for anything that genuinely cannot slip.

Apple Calendar, and everything else

A .ics file, with the alarm set to the moment itself rather than the half hour before that some calendars assume.

A backup file

Plain JSON, carrying every field exactly, so restoring it puts things back as they were. Latr also takes one before every update on its own and keeps the last five, plus every one you take by hand — losing a list to an update is the most common way people lose one, and an update is the single moment the product knows is coming. Restore any of them from Settings in two clicks.

A spreadsheet

CSV, for sorting and pivoting. Titles come from web pages, so every cell is guarded against being read as a formula when a spreadsheet opens it.

Markdown, for a notes app

One document grouped by the folders you made, with YAML frontmatter at the top so Obsidian and Logseq read it as a note rather than as loose text. The Library also copies any selection as Markdown straight to the clipboard, for pasting into an issue or a message.

A bookmarks file

Every page as the bookmark file Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari and most bookmark managers import. Folders stay folders and tags come along, and it needs no permission.

A link

Copy a reminder — or a whole saved session — as a link. Whoever opens it gets the pages and the times, whether or not they have Latr.

Bringing pages in

Everything you bring in lands in your library as kept pages. Nothing is scheduled and nothing will notify you; give any page a time later, from its row.

From your bookmarks. Pick any bookmark folder in Chrome or Edge and every link in it is kept. Latr asks for bookmark access at that click and never at install.

From a list you paste. A spreadsheet column, a Markdown list, an email, or an export from another tab manager. Anything link-shaped is picked up, and where the line already names the page — after a pipe, a tab or a dash — that name is kept, so an export arrives with its real titles rather than with names rebuilt from the addresses.

From an export file. A bookmarks HTML file from any browser, or the JSON, CSV or text file another bookmark or tab manager writes. Notes and tags in the file come with each page, and tags you do not have yet are made for you.

Every import shows you what it will keep before anything is written, asks what to do with pages you already have (skip them, keep a second copy, or update their titles), and undoes as one action rather than as two hundred rows.

Every setting, explained

A complete plain-language guide to Latr extension settings.

1. Reminders and notifications

What it is: How a reminder arrives, and when it waits.
Settings included: Whether the page reopens on its own, quiet hours windows (pause notifications overnight), the morning and evening look at the day, persistent alert repeats for urgent items, custom notification text, snooze button presets, sounds, and calendar handoff service selection. It also holds Open meeting links at their early warning: a Google Meet, Zoom or Teams reminder with an early warning opens its page in front of you at the warning closest to the start, up to ten minutes before, and the reminder itself then uses that same tab rather than opening a second.

2. Focus and site blocking

What it is: The rules every focus session follows. Sessions themselves run from the Focus page, which also keeps your focus bundles.
Settings included: Four groups, in the order you meet them. Session length: focus time, short break, long break and rounds per cycle, drawn as one bar per part so you can see the whole cycle and how long it takes; reminders wait through focus time and arrive on the break, and the next part can start on its own or wait for you. Block distracting sites: a two-way switch between Block these and Allow only these, with the sites as chips you remove with one click. Blocking applies during focus time and never on a break, and subdomains are covered, so one entry is enough. Under Allow only these, Let search engines through appears, so you can look things up; the result you click is still checked. A session started from a reminder, a focus bundle or pages picked in the library always lets its own pages through. While a session runs: Put other tabs away (saved as a window, reopened when the session ends), Make ending early take two clicks (also locks the site list) and Stay quiet in full screen (reminders wait up to 30 minutes while you present). Pause reminders: hold everything for an hour, two, four or until tomorrow, by hand.

3. Tabs and windows

What it is: What Latr does to the tabs you have open.
Settings included: Maximum tabs per window opens new tabs in a new window past a limit you choose; with Pro it can instead put the tab untouched longest to sleep. Duplicate tabs, off until you turn it on, closes a tab you open from a link onto a page you already have open 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 closed. Tabs you have forgotten is an optional sweep that saves and closes tabs you have not looked at in a long time, with a list of sites it must never touch; it never takes a pinned tab, the tab you are on, or one that is playing sound. With Pro, Put idle tabs to sleep automatically frees the memory of tabs untouched for 15 minutes to 2 hours without closing or saving anything. Rules that group tabs automatically live here too - with Pro, a rule set can switch itself on by weekday and time - and so do Autosave this window, which keeps the last few snapshots of your open tabs on this device, and Save a window when you close it.

4. Ways to save a reminder

What it is: Customize shortcuts and save behavior.
Settings included: View active keyboard shortcuts (like Alt+Shift+Y) plus the three unbound ones you can assign yourself - an hour from now, this evening, tomorrow morning - choose whether the main shortcut saves straight away or opens Latr so you can type a time, choose whether it confirms with a small note on the page itself - with Undo and Change time - or with a system notification (Pro can add up to three folders to that note, to file the page as you save it), turn on Close the tab once it is saved so filing a page also gets it out of the way, and configure the address bar keyword.

5. New reminder defaults

What it is: Set baseline defaults for new reminders.
Settings included: Choose default reminder timing (e.g. 1 hour or tomorrow), priority level, early warning time, tag, and folder applied when no specific rule matches.

6. Organising

What it is: Manage organizational structures and automation rules.
Settings included: Create and edit color tags, folders, subfolders, saved filter views, per-site automation rules, custom domain categories, and task dependencies. With Pro, a rule set can switch per-site rules on by weekday and time.

7. Appearance

What it is: Personalize the look and feel of the extension.
Settings included: Toggle Light, Dark, or System mode, select custom Pro color themes (Nord, Dracula, Solarized, Catppuccin, Tokyo Night), switch between 12-hour and 24-hour clocks, set toolbar badge countdown styles, toggle webpage preview thumbnails - per way of saving, so the keyboard shortcut can take one while the address bar does not - and turn on Scroll position, which reopens a reminder at the place on the page you saved it from rather than at the top - and records how long the page is to read and how far down you were. With Pro, Reading speed sets the words a minute those reading times are worked out from. This card also holds the desk pet, a small face in the popup whose expression follows your queue. It answers what you do with a short line - a save, a page kept, a reminder done, a focus session - keeps you company while a session runs, and can be petted on its own screen. It never notifies you, never makes a sound, keeps no count and cannot change when a reminder fires; Pro adds a name and lets you use photographs of your own animal, kept on your device.

8. Your data

What it is: Control data synchronization, backups, and privacy.
Settings included: Turn browser sync on or off, view detailed delivery activity history, export/import JSON data backups, export CSV spreadsheet files, export setup packs for teammates, and the clear-all-data option, which removes every reminder, saved window, backup and deleted item. This card also holds the two safety nets: Automatic backups, a copy of every reminder and setting taken on this device before every update and kept five deep, each of which you can restore or delete, and a link to the Bin, where a deleted reminder, kept page or saved window waits seven days with a Restore beside it before it goes for good.

9. About Latr

What it is: System information and privacy statistics.
Settings included: View extension version, browser details, replay the quick start tour or the popup's on-screen tips, see what a Pro licence unlocked, view privacy stats (verifying 0 external server connections), and access support options.

Keyboard reference

Every control in Latr is fully accessible via keyboard navigation.