leoh.io as an alternative new tab page
Hey studyblrs! I know many of us tend to like our new tab pages for Chrome, like lanes and momentum, so I wanted to share this one.
It’s called leoh ( dev page | chrome store ), and I found it when I was looking for something like momentum but a little less limiting. This one says it was inspired by momentum, with the goal to make it a little more customizable. It has a new photo every time you refresh (unless you set your own background), and lets you choose whether you want: a clock (12/24hr, optional am/pm), a daily focus, a to-do list, weather, news, a notepad, quicklinks, and a search, and you can choose if most of those are visible but closed on startup (i.e., just the icon), visible and open on startup, or invisible.
There were a couple others that made my shortlist. I haven’t tried any of them but in case you’re interested:
Live Start Page: looks very pretty and seems to have all the typical options. Idk I guess I just thought it had a chance of still being too cluttered? But that was speculation; it’s still definitely on my radar.
Calm: Also has all the usual features, and looks even more customizable. Probably tied with Live Start Page for my next choice.
Prioritab: No “aesthetic” background (black/dark gray bg, white/off-white text), but has the time and date looks super cool in that it will tell what percentage of the day/week/year etc. has passed, and has a to-do list for each of those levels. For a new tab page, I personally prefer something with less information so I can have it up while I’m working etc. But I still like the idea of this one.
Hex Clock: Shows the time in 24-hr format, and the background color is the time converted into hexadecimal format.
I’ve tried momentum and lanes (links above) and be limitless, all of which are quite nice (though lanes has actually not been working too well for me lately) but I’m just kind of a never-satisfied type of person so I like to try a variety of things.
One thing I would really like would be something with a countdown/up timer and a clock, but I haven’t found anything quite right. Lanes comes close, but it’s mostly a pom timer which can be cool or not depending on the context, and it doesn’t show the actual time when you’re using it (plus the numbers can be a little less salient than I’d like).
I might update this if I try any of the other ones.
Anyway I hope this post has been helpful. :)
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