Chrome
Also covers Brave, Vivaldi, Arc and Opera — every Chromium browser installs from the same listing.
Tab reminders in ChromeGuides
A reminder on any tab,
in one keystroke.
A tab reminder attaches a time to the page you are on, so it comes back to you at the moment you chose — instead of waiting in the tab strip, hoping you remember why it is there.
- No account, ever
- Free, and not a trial
- Nothing leaves your browser
What it is
A tab holds a page. A tab reminder holds a page and a time.
That second half is everything. The browser has always been able to keep a page around — an open tab, a bookmark, a reading list. None of them can tap you on the shoulder on Friday at 10am. A tab reminder can, and when it does, it brings the page with it. If you have been searching for a tab snooze, this is the same wish with the tab taken out of it: nothing has to stay open, or stay anywhere, for the page to come back.
- 1 You are on a page you need later.
A ticket sale, a form deadline, a doc to re-read.
- 2 Press AltShiftY — or pick a time.
The keystroke files it at your default time with no popup at all. The toolbar popup is there when the time matters: type it in plain language — “tomorrow 9am”, “in 3 hours”.
- 3 Close the tab.
The reminder does not need it any more.
- 4 A notification lands at the time you set.
One click reopens the exact page. Not a note about it — the page.
Watch it happen
The whole mechanic, in twenty seconds
Nothing here is a mock-up of a future product — this is what the extension does, drawn in the page so it stays current.
You find something that matters later.One keystroke. Nothing opens.Close the tab. Stop thinking about it.You have moved on to something else entirely.It comes back to you — on the exact page.
Your browser
Works where your tabs are
Latr is published on all three stores. Each browser has one or two things worth knowing — its shortcut settings, its notification permissions — so each gets its own page.
Firefox
The same product from Firefox Add-ons, with two small platform differences worth knowing up front.
Tab reminders in FirefoxEdge
Published on Microsoft Edge Add-ons, so installing does not detour through the Chrome store's warning banner.
Get it for EdgeWhat happens if this stops
Nothing here can shut down and take your tabs with it
The usual way this ends is not a bug. It is an extension that quietly stopped being updated, a service that closed, and a queue of pages that was supposed to wake up next week and never did. That is the most common complaint in this whole category, and it is worth answering before you install anything — including this.
- There is no server holding your reminders. They are records in your own browser's extension storage, on your own machine. A free install makes no network requests at all, so there is no account to lose access to and no service whose closing day matters to you.
- Backup is plain JSON, and CSV if you want a spreadsheet. One button in settings, no export queue and no format anyone else has to still be running to read. How backup and restore works.
- If Latr goes away, your reminders do not go with it. Export first and every one of them is a line in a file you own — a date, a title and a URL. That is the whole record, because that is genuinely all there ever was.
Questions
Tab reminders, asked directly
Does the tab have to stay open for the reminder to work?
No — closing the tab is the point. Latr stores the page address together with the time you chose, so the reminder is not attached to the open tab at all. When it fires, clicking the notification opens the page in a fresh tab, exactly where you left it.
What happens if my browser is closed when the reminder is due?
The reminder waits. The next time you open your browser, Latr delivers it immediately and says it arrived late rather than pretending it is on time. For a moment you truly cannot miss — a ticket drop, a deadline — send the reminder to Google Calendar or Outlook with one click, and your phone will carry it even while the laptop is shut.
Is a tab reminder the same as snoozing a tab?
They are two names for the same wish, and Latr does both. A tab snooze hides the tab now and puts it back later; a tab reminder stores the address and the time instead, so the tab does not have to be held anywhere — you can close it, quit the browser, or restart the machine, and the page still comes back. The difference shows up when the reminder arrives: a snoozed tab simply reappears, while a reminder announces itself as a notification you can act on, snooze again, or tick off. Snooze is on the other end too — two of seven snooze lengths sit on the notification buttons, so “not now” is one click.
Can a tab reminder repeat?
Yes. A reminder can recur on real-life schedules: every weekday at 9:30, every third Thursday, the last working day of the month, every 90 days. Each time it fires, it reopens the same page — useful for timesheets, status pages and anything you check on a rhythm.
Is Latr free?
Yes, and not as a trial. Saving pages, notifications, repeats, snooze, quiet hours, sync and export are free permanently, with no account and no sign-up. A paid Pro upgrade exists, but it only adds themes, notification sounds and extra organisation depth — it never decides whether a reminder fires.
Do I need to create an account?
No. There is nothing to sign up for and no server involved. Reminders are stored by your own browser on your own machine, and a free install makes no network requests at all.
Stop losing the things you meant to come back to
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.