Aure Homepage New Tab by Ali ZS

Aure Homepage transforms your new tab into an elegant, fast, and privacy-focused productivity dashboard. Organize bookmarks into folders, track habits and tasks, run Pomodoro sessions, and customize your workspace with themes and widgets.

Built with a local-first architecture, Aure Homepage keeps all your personal notes, tasks, and configurations securely on your computer without external accounts or data tracking.

Key Features
- Smart Search: Fast Google search with instant suggestions, custom commands, direct URL navigation, and localhost/IP recognition.
- Organized Bookmarks & Folders: Group your top sites and favorite links into customizable folders with automated favicon retrieval.
- Pomodoro Focus Timer: Integrated focus sessions with customizable intervals, break times, and browser notifications.
- Notes & Checklists: Write quick thoughts with Markdown formatting and track daily to-do lists directly from your new tab.
- Customizable Widgets:
- Interactive Calendar & Date tracking
- Daily Mood Tracker
- Pet House interactive companion
- Milestone Counters & Habit Progress bars
- Personalization & Aesthetics:
- Dark and Light themes
- Multiple accent color palettes
- Curated aesthetic backgrounds & custom wallpaper support
- Adjustable Liquid Glass blur effect
- Drag-and-drop widget arrangement
- Local-First & Privacy Guaranteed:
- 100% offline-ready with local IndexedDB/localStorage storage
- Zero analytics, trackers, or data collection
- Built-in data backup: Export and import your data anytime

Permissions Rationale
Aure Homepage respects user privacy and only requests permissions required for core features:
- storage & alarms: Save widgets, notes, and preferences locally and schedule Pomodoro timers.
- topSites & history: Display frequently visited shortcuts and optional search history autocomplete.
- notifications: Alert you when Pomodoro focus and break sessions finish.
- tabs & sessions: Manage tab navigation and restore browser sessions smoothly.
- Host permissions:
- suggestqueries.google.com & gstatic.com: Fetch optional Google search autocomplete and site icons.
- faviconapi.com: Fetch high-resolution favicons for custom bookmarks.
- geojs.io & ipwho.is: Fetch public IP and location when the optional IP Checker widget is enabled (with fallback support).
- flagcdn.com: Load the country flag matching the detected IP location.
- raw.githubusercontent.com: Check for extension version updates.

Open Source
Aure Homepage is open-source under the MIT license:
https://github.com/alizs10/aure-homepage-chrome-extension