Sticky Note
Alt + NA small note for quick thoughts.
- Give it a title and write in the body.
- Pick one of five colors: yellow, pink, blue, green or purple.
- Drag the edges to make it bigger or smaller.
A simple guide to everything on your board: how to start, what each of the 19 widgets does, and every keyboard shortcut.
VibeBoard replaces your Chrome new tab with a board you can fill. It needs no account and no setup.
Tip: Click the VibeBoard icon in the Chrome toolbar to open the board in its own window or tab. You choose which one in Settings.
The board is a large open space. Put widgets anywhere you like.
Each day starts with its own empty board, and yesterday’s board is saved for you. Open the history panel with Ctrl + H to look at earlier days. Older boards are read-only, so you cannot add widgets to them.
Switch with Ctrl + Shift + D, the sun and moon button on the zoom bar, or in Settings.
There are two quick ways.
The 19 widgets are in four groups in the panel: Write & plan, Time & reminders, Tools, and Media & files. You cannot add widgets while you look at an older day or the pinned list. On a Mac, use Option instead of Alt. Shortcuts do not fire while you type in a text field.
Every widget can be moved, resized, locked, pinned and deleted. Here is what each one does.
A small note for quick thoughts.
A bigger page for longer writing.
A checklist for the day.
A calendar with Month, Week and Day views.
A stopwatch, a countdown and a Pomodoro timer in one widget.
See the time in several places at once.
Repeating reminders that work even when no board is open.
Count the days to an event, or since one.
A calculator with four modes.
Fix, change and count text without leaving the board.
Turn a link or any text into a QR code.
Pick colors, build palettes and copy them in any format.
Pick a name, make teams, roll dice or flip a coin.
Pin a picture to your board.
A small canvas to sketch on.
Play a YouTube video on your board.
A shelf for files and links.
Save a link with its website icon.
A small tile for a favorite website.
Two small helpers that are not widgets.
Save text you type again and again, such as an address or a standard reply. Add tags if you like.
Good to know: Quick Items work on the VibeBoard page only, not on other websites. VibeBoard cannot read other websites. Also, the scrambling helps against a casual look at your stored data. VibeBoard is not a password manager.
A row of shortcuts to your favorite websites at the top of the board. Add, edit, remove and re-order them in Settings → Quick Access. Each shortcut shows the website icon, or a colored tile with its first letter when no icon can load.
VibeBoard has three kinds of reminders. Pick the one that fits.
| Kind | Where | Works when no board is open? |
|---|---|---|
| Repeating reminders | Reminders widget | Yes, while Chrome is running |
| Task and one-time reminders | Tasks widget, right-click → Set reminder | No, only while a VibeBoard page is open |
| Calendar reminders | Calendar widget | No, only while a VibeBoard page is open |
Alerts from the Reminders widget appear as system notifications with Snooze 10 min and Done. All alerts are also saved in the bell menu and in Settings → Notifications, where you can turn the sound and system notifications on or off.
If an alert does not show: make sure Chrome is running, turn off Do Not Disturb or Focus Assist on your computer, and press Test notification in the Reminders widget. A reminder that was too late to fire (for example, your computer was asleep) is skipped instead of piling up. More help is on the support page.
Alt shortcuts do not work while you type in a text field. On a Mac, use Option for Alt.
| Keys | What it does |
|---|---|
| Alt + N | New Sticky Note |
| Alt + P | New Write Pad |
| Alt + C | New Tasks list |
| Alt + A | New Calendar |
| Alt + T | New Timer |
| Alt + W | New World Clock |
| Alt + R | New Reminders list |
| Alt + U | New Days Until |
| Alt + Q | New Calculator |
| Alt + X | New Text Tools |
| Alt + G | New QR Code |
| Alt + K | New Colors |
| Alt + S | New Random Picker |
| Alt + I | New Image |
| Alt + D | New Drawing |
| Alt + V | New Media |
| Alt + O | New Files shelf |
| Alt + L | New Link |
| Alt + M | New Magnet |
| Keys | What it does |
|---|---|
| Alt + \ | Open Quick Items, to search and copy saved text |
| Ctrl + K | Search everything on your boards |
| Ctrl + B | Show or hide the side panel |
| Ctrl + H | Open the history panel |
| Ctrl + = / Ctrl + - | Zoom in / zoom out |
| Ctrl + 0 | Reset the view |
| Ctrl + 1 | Fit all widgets on screen |
| Ctrl + Shift + D | Switch between light and dark mode |
| Space + drag | Move around the board |
| Ctrl + V | Paste a picture, a link, text or a copied widget onto the board |
Press the gear icon (or the Settings tab in the side panel) to open Settings. It has nine pages.
| Page | What you can do |
|---|---|
| General | Choose New Tab Dashboard (opens on every new tab) or Separate Application (its own window, and new tabs go to a page you choose). Choose whether the toolbar icon opens a window or a tab. Set your time zone. |
| Appearance | Light or dark. |
| Notifications | Turn sound and system notifications on or off. See and clear the alert history. |
| Calendar | See your events and totals, set the first day of the week, turn calendar reminders on or off and pick a default reminder. |
| Pomodoro | See your finished sessions and total focus time. |
| Quick Access | Add, edit, remove and re-order your website shortcuts. |
| Security | How Quick Items with words like password are scrambled on your device. |
| Data & Backup | See how much you saved. Export or import a backup. |
| About | Version number, why each permission is needed and a link to the privacy policy. |
Your data lives only in your browser, so a backup is the best way to keep it safe or move it to another computer.
vibeboard-backup- and the date is saved.A backup holds your boards, Quick Items, calendar events and reminders. Importing never makes duplicates. It does not hold the contents of files in the Files widget (only their names and links), or the snooze state of a reminder. Backups made by earlier builds, when the extension was called Mood Board, still import.
Remember: removing the extension or clearing its data deletes your boards for good. Rocuo has no copy, so export a backup first.
VibeBoard asks for three permissions and no website access.
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Storage | Keeps your settings and reminders on your device. |
| Alarms | Wakes the extension at the time of each reminder. |
| Notifications | Shows your reminders as system notifications. |
Read the full details in the privacy policy.