Sporekeeper
A Chrome extension that notices when you have started working and asks whether you clocked in. It also keeps the tabs you accumulated while doing it under control.
Add to Chrome, free On the Chrome Web Store. No account, no ads, no paid tier.
Chrome may say "not trusted by Enhanced Safe Browsing" when you install. That is a notice about the publisher's age, not about this extension. Chrome applies it to everything new in the Web Store and lifts it after a listing has been up for a few months with a clean record. Sporekeeper was published this week. If you would rather not take anybody's word for it, the demos below are the same interface and the same code, running in a page, installing nothing.
It makes no network requests. Not few, none. No server, no account, no analytics, no telemetry. Everything it knows lives in your own browser. The three demos below are the real interface running against a fake browser, so you can use all of it without installing anything.
Try it
Each one is a single self contained page. Nothing is installed, nothing is stored, and nothing is sent anywhere. Reload to start over.
- Start here The extension, playable A fake browser with fake tabs, the real popup, the real reminder cards, and a clock running a minute per second so a daily limit can actually be reached. Open the demo
- The settings The setup page The page's real compiled code against a fake Chrome, so every button does what it actually does. Sort tabs into folders, set a daily limit, browse all 54 companions. Open the setup page
- First launch The welcome wizard What a new install lands on. Four steps on one painted plate: name a setup, say what counts as work, choose a companion and a scene, decide what it may watch. Open the wizard
What it does
- Clock-in reminders Name what you are tracking and what counts as doing it: a website, a project folder, a person who emails you. When you have worked long enough, a companion turns up and asks.
- Spore Forest Sorts open tabs into folders you name, by rules you write. It shows the whole plan and the rule that matched each tab before it moves anything.
- Daily limits Minutes a day on a site, counted only while you are actually at the machine. Optionally the site stops loading when they are gone.
- Follow-ups and job hunting Save a page you meant to finish. Scan open job postings, read the title and company off each, and download the lot as a spreadsheet with the columns you keep.
- 54 companions All original pixel art, generated from shape definitions in the project rather than taken from an asset pack, across eleven painted scenes.
Privacy, which is the point
How many network requests the extension makes: none
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There is no code in it that can make one. No
fetch, no analytics, no CDN, no remotely hosted script. - Nothing that reads more than it needs to is on by default. Reading a page's text is off, and turning it on approves one site at a time. Reading history is off.
- Nothing is noticed for you. A saved page exists because you pressed a button. A tab moves because you approved the plan.
- There is a delete button for every kind of thing it keeps, and one switch that pauses all monitoring at once.
Read the full privacy policy, which also ships inside the extension so you can read it without going anywhere.