Collections

Drag it in. Find it later.

A Chrome side panel that keeps the links, quotes and images you gather while you research, in collections you name, on your own computer.

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Three ways in

Nothing to open, nothing to paste. The panel sits beside the page and takes whatever you hand it.

Drag it in

Select text, or grab a link or an image, and drop it on the panel. It lands in the collection you have open.

Right-click anything

A "Save to Collections" entry in Chrome's own context menu, for when dragging is awkward.

Save the whole page

One button for the tab you are on. Alt+Shift+C opens the panel without touching the mouse.

Everything keeps its shape

A quote stays a quote and a photo stays a photo, so a collection is still readable a month later.

link
a

Anker 737 Power Bank (PowerCore 24K), 24,000mAh 140W

amazon.com
page
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The Best Portable Chargers and Power Banks of 2026

Pagenytimes.com
quote

Airlines limit lithium-ion batteries to 100 watt-hours in carry-on baggage; spare batteries may never go in checked luggage.

faa.gov
image
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Base One Max 3-in-1 charging stand in walnut

nomadgoods.com

Take it anywhere

Open a collection as a tab group when you are ready to work, or copy it as Markdown and paste it into notes, an email, a doc or an issue. Your things never get stuck in here.

in the panel
aAnker 737 Power Bank, 24,000mAh
wThe Best Portable Chargers of 2026
Airlines limit lithium-ion batteries to 100 watt-hours in carry-on baggage…
on your clipboard
## Power bank research

- [Anker 737 Power Bank, 24,000mAh](https://amazon.com/…)
- [The Best Portable Chargers of 2026](https://nytimes.com/…)
- > Airlines limit lithium-ion batteries to 100 Wh
  > ([source](https://faa.gov/…))

Yours, on your computer

Collections are stored in your browser profile. There is no account to make and nothing leaves your machine unless you ask it to.

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Local by default

Everything lives in Chrome's own storage for this profile. Uninstall and it goes with it, so export first.

Sync only if you turn it on

Signing in with Google keeps collection names, saved items and notes in step across your Chromes. Delete the synced copy from Settings at any time.

Counts, not contents

Anonymous usage counts show which features are used. No page addresses, no text, no identifiers.

Questions

Is it free?

Yes. One person made it because Edge Collections went away, and the local version stays free.

Where is my data?

In your Chrome profile on this computer. Nothing is sent anywhere until you turn on sync.

Does it work in Edge, Brave or Arc?

Any Chromium browser that supports the side panel API and installs from the Chrome Web Store. Chrome is the one it is tested in.

What exactly is synced?

Collection names, the items in them and your notes. No history, no page contents, nothing you did not save.

I used Edge Collections. Can I bring them over?

Yes. Settings has "Import from Edge Collections". It reads the collections_export.csv Edge let you download, or the collectionsSQLite file Edge left in its profile folder, which also brings back the images the CSV never had.

Can I open a whole collection at once?

Yes: as a named tab group in the current window, or in a new window, from the collection's menu or the Ctrl+K palette.

Can I send a collection to someone?

Yes, if you are signed in. "Share as a page" publishes a read-only page at an unlisted address you can send to anyone, it follows your edits, and "Stop sharing" takes it down.

How do I get my things out?

Copy as Markdown, per collection or all at once from Settings. Plain text, no lock-in. Checklists export as task lists.

Why does Chrome say it can "read your browsing history"?

That is Chrome's wording for the tabs permission. It is used to read the title and address of the tab you are on when you press "Save this page". Nothing is recorded or sent.

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