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Snoozing a tab is the right instinct: it is in your way now and wanted later. The usual implementation hides the tab and hopes the browser is still around on Thursday. Latr writes down the page and the moment instead — so nothing is being held anywhere, and nothing has to survive for it to work.
Held, or written down
Both approaches close the tab in front of you. They differ entirely in what has to still exist next Thursday for the page to come back.
The tab is stashed somewhere and put back later, silently. It works, and it is a session away from not working: the pile is parked rather than gone, and the queue depends on the browser session, the extension and — often — a service behind it. The stories in this category are all the same shape. A stack of pages that was supposed to wake up next week, and never did.
Latr stores the address and the time as a record in your own browser. The tab is genuinely closed — quit, restart, reinstall the browser, and the moment is still coming. When it does, the page comes back by itself — opened quietly behind whatever you are doing at nine on Monday, at the spot you had scrolled to, with a notification beside it rather than in front of you.
The lengths
Four durations and three wall-clock times, because “this evening” means six o’clock and not six hours from wherever you happen to be. Chrome allows a notification exactly two buttons — a platform limit, not a design choice — so you pick which two of the seven are the ones you reach for.
Anything the presets do not cover is typed the way you would say it — next friday 5pm, in 3 weeks, june 12 — in nine languages. Every phrasing it reads.
Both ends
Everything snoozes a tab once. What decides whether you keep using it is what happens when the page comes back at a moment that turns out to be wrong too.
AltShiftY files the tab you are on at your usual time, with no window opening and nothing to type. Close the tab straight after.
Your two chosen lengths sit on the notification itself, so “not now” costs one click and no window. A second snooze compounds from where the first left it, not from now.
Select any number of saved pages in the queue and push the whole selection back together — for the Monday where Friday was more optimistic than it should have been.
Questions
Chrome has no snooze of its own, so it takes an extension. With Latr installed: press Alt+Shift+Y on the tab you want gone and it is filed at your default time — nothing opens, and you can close the tab immediately. For a particular moment, click the toolbar icon and write it the way you would say it: “tomorrow morning”, “thursday 9am”, “in 2 weeks”. The same works in Firefox and Edge.
It reopens on its own. At the time you chose the tab comes back quietly in the background — at the exact spot you had scrolled to — and a notification arrives alongside it carrying the page’s title. You are never pulled away from what you are doing: the tab is simply already there when you go looking, which is what makes twelve pages snoozed to Monday survivable rather than an ambush. If you would rather Latr only told you and left the opening to you, one setting does that.
Yes. Seven lengths are built in — +15 minutes, +30 minutes, +1 hour, +3 hours, this evening, tomorrow morning and this weekend — and the last three are wall-clock times rather than durations, so “this evening” means six o’clock rather than six hours from now. You can add your own lengths in settings, and anything outside the presets can be typed in plain words instead.
Nothing is lost. Latr stores the page address and the time as a record in your browser’s own extension storage, not as a held-open tab, so quitting the browser or rebooting the machine changes nothing. If the moment falls while the browser is shut, the reminder is delivered the next time you open it and says that it arrived late rather than appearing with no explanation.
Yes — select any number of saved reminders in the queue and snooze, re-tag, move or delete the whole selection in one action. It is the fastest way to deal with a Monday morning where you were more optimistic on Friday than turned out to be true.
It is the same wish with a different mechanism underneath. A snooze holds the tab and puts it back; a tab reminder records the address and the moment, so there is nothing to hold. The practical difference is what survives: a held tab lives and dies with the browser session, while a record survives a quit, a crash and a restart. Latr is the second kind and still gives the tab back on its own — with snooze on both ends, so you can snooze a page when you save it and snooze it again when it returns.
Then nothing shuts down, because there is nothing to shut down. There is no account and no server; a free install makes no network requests at all, and your snoozed pages are records in your own browser’s storage. Export is one button — plain JSON for a full restore, CSV for a spreadsheet — so every saved page is a date, a title and an address in a file you own.
Free, no account, and nothing leaves your device. About ten seconds to install, and one keystroke to use.
Also on Brave, Vivaldi, Arc and Opera — straight from the Chrome Web Store listing.
