A new tab that's ready to work

Multify New Tab is a separate, optional Chrome extension. It turns every new tab into a place to ask a question or catch up on what you've saved, with two tabs at the top: Chat and Explore. The Multify extension itself leaves your new tab alone.

Add Multify New Tab

Get it from the Chrome Web Store. It works on its own, and works best next to the Multify extension: with both installed, the new tab's Chat is the full Multify chat.

Add Multify New Tab to Chrome

When it's added, a page opens that shows what to expect from your first new tab.

Keep it when Chrome asks

The first time you open a new tab after adding it, Chrome asks whether you meant to change your new tab page. Choose Keep it. In Edge the button says Keep changes.

Chrome asks once. Keep it keeps the Multify new tab. Change it back turns off Multify New Tab only; the Multify extension keeps working.

Chat

Chat is what you see when a new tab opens. Press / to jump into the message box without clicking.

  • With the Multify extension installed, it's the same chat as the Multify panel, with your models, history and settings, and the message box in the middle of the page. While the chat is empty, the Google G in the corner of the message box sends what you typed to Google instead.
  • Without it, type your message and press Enter. It opens in Multify on the web, in the same tab. The link under the box gets you the Multify extension.
With the Multify extension installed, a new tab opens on Chat: the same message box as the panel. The G sends what you typed to Google instead.
Try itWhat should I ask in a first call with a new logistics vendor? Give me ten questions.

With the Multify extension installed, a chat you closed partway through shows Pick up where you left off so you can go back to it.

Explore

Explore is a page of things worth your time, built from what you save and who you follow. It's made of sections you can reorder. On a wide screen there's a contents list on the right: drag a section's name up or down to move it.

SectionWhat's in it
Your stashYour most recent saves. Switch between Tiles and Mosaic at the top of the section.
Fresh reads for youNew articles from around the web on the topics you save and follow. They refresh a couple of times a day. The search providers only see topic words, never the sites you visit.
TodayA short digest, grouped by topic, of what's worth a look from your stash and the people you follow. It refreshes a few times a day.
From people you followWhat people you follow on Multify have shared. Empty until you follow someone.
Your top sitesThe sites you visit most, if you let Multify use your browsing history (below).
Explore stacks sections you can reorder: your stash first, then fresh reads, today's digest, people you follow and your top sites.

If you're signed out, Explore asks you to sign in to see your stash. Links from Explore always open in a new tab, so your new tab stays put.

Flip through your stash

Click any card in Your stash or From people you follow and it opens full screen. Move through the list one item at a time with ↓ and ↑ (or J and K, your scroll wheel, or a swipe). Press Esc to close it.

Each item has three buttons: Open original, Open in Stash, and Ask about it, which puts the item in the chat so you can ask a question about it.

Using your browsing history

The Your top sites section starts as a card titled Use your browsing history. Click Use my history and your browser asks for permission. Once you allow it, Explore can show your most-visited sites, fold them into your Today digest, and use your topics to find fresh reads.

  • Your history is ranked on your computer.
  • Multify gets site names and a few page titles, never full links.
  • For mail, docs, chat and calendar apps, only the site name is sent, never page titles.
  • Local and private network addresses never leave your computer.

To stop sharing it later, click Stop using history and the permission is removed. This permission belongs to Multify New Tab; the Multify extension never asks for your browsing history.

Change the look and settings

Two buttons sit in the corner of the new tab:

  • The palette opens the Look picker. Your Look also styles your Stash, the web app and the Multify extension. See Looks.
  • The gear has the Fresh reads switch, the chat text size (when the Multify extension's chat is on the page), a link to your settings, and Remove Multify New Tab.
The gear: switch off Fresh reads to drop the article suggestions, or Remove Multify New Tab to get your browser's own new tab back.

Remove it

Click the gear on the new tab and choose Remove Multify New Tab, then confirm. Your browser's own new tab comes back right away. The Multify extension, your stash and your chats are untouched. You can also remove it from chrome://extensions.

To keep the new tab but drop the article suggestions, switch off Fresh reads instead.

In the Multify panel, Settings → Multify new tab shows whether it's installed, with a link to add it or manage it.

Which browsers have it

Multify New Tab is in the Chrome Web Store, and Edge can add extensions from there too. There's no Firefox version: Firefox keeps its own new tab, and everything else in Multify works there as usual.

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