Arrows Lite — Frequently Asked Questions

A Chrome extension for saving unfinished work — the page plus how far you got — and resuming it later without losing context. Its core pieces are Saved Cases, a dedicated Working Area, sticky notes, and an optional AI page summary.

No. Tab managers organize open tabs. Arrows Lite makes tabs safe to close: it saves the work in progress so you can reopen it with its context later. It never scans or reorganizes your other tabs.

A bookmark saves a page’s location. A Saved Case saves the work: the page, your note or AI summary of how far you got, and the date — so the next day you know exactly where to continue.

The unit Arrows Lite saves: title, URL, your note, an optional AI summary, and timestamps. Cases are searchable (titles and summaries), pinnable, and can be exported and imported as JSON.

A region of your tab strip between two marker tabs — Arrows Start and Working Area End. Right-click a tab → MOVE gathers it there, so today’s active work sits in one place, separate from the tab pile.

When you save a page, AI can draft a one- to two-sentence note of how far you got, in your language. You review and edit it before saving. It is a memory aid for resuming — not the product itself.

Yes, fully. Saving, the Working Area, search, reopening, sticky notes, and bookmarks all work without AI. If you never press the AI button, nothing is ever sent anywhere.

Exactly three things, only when you press the AI summary button: the tab’s title, the page’s visible text (capped at 6,000 characters), and your output-language code. A Google sign-in token is attached for authentication and kept in memory only.

No. The request has no URL field at all — this is verifiable in the extension’s request-building code and documented on our “What we send” page.

No. The extension has no cookies permission, and the text extractor excludes form values, password fields, hidden elements, scripts, and images before anything is built.

Locally in your browser on your device. There is no external sync. Uninstalling the extension removes the data; you can export it as JSON for your own backup first.

Also locally on your device. Notes are keyed by a hash of the page — the raw URL of the page is not stored for notes.

No account is needed for the core features. Google sign-in is required only for the optional AI page summary, to control usage.

The extension UI supports English, 简体中文, 日本語, Español, Deutsch, Français, and 한국어 — chosen manually or following your browser.

Arrows Lite works best on Google Chrome 150 or later, which it uses for newer tab-management features. On older versions it shows an update notice for the features that need it.

Via the support page on this site. We read every report and use it to improve the extension, but we do not reply individually. The form is anonymous — no sign-in or email needed.