Hot on Github! Share a Chrome productivity artifact: Omni

This article will share with you a Chrome productivity artifact that has recently become popular on Github: Omni. Let’s take a look at its functions and features!

Omni is a browser plug-in that allows you to use your browser like a Mac computer. Recently, Omni has topped the Github trend list and ProductHunt list, becoming A productivity tool that is very popular among programmers and product designers!

ProductHunt is a very professional product discovery website abroad:

Interestingly, the author of Omni is a very beautiful woman A young lady from the UK: Alyssa The young lady has also developed a weekly magazine, you can subscribe to her progress~ https://newsletter.alyssax.com/

You must be curious, what exactly is a What kind of tool could gain so much popularity? Next, let’s take a look at what kind of magic this magical tool has!

Quick overview of featuresThe reason why Omni is popular is mainly because it solves some of the painful problems we have in using browsers, for example For example, how to manage your browser bookmarks, Tab bar, and browser browsing history. Although the browser has these functions, they are very basic.

One of the most embarrassing scenes is that I have opened dozens of Tab pages, and then I want to find a Tab page I opened before. I remember the general information of this page, but now the browser does not support Tab pages. The search made it difficult for me to find and open this Tab page.

Can you imagine finding the page you want among the many Tab pages below?

PS: The latest version of Chrome has implemented Tab page search.

But Omni has implemented the same function as Mac's "Focused Search" in the browser, which can be called out through the shortcut Command/Ctrl Shift K A menu similar to this:

Then you can search for anything you want in it, and it will aggregate your Tabs pages, bookmarks and history, as long as the output corresponds keywords, you can directly find the content you want! Very convenient, right? For example, if I search for a certain Tab:

Function and Features
Except this In addition, what other functions does Omni support? Let’s take a look:

? Switch, open, close and search tags
? Browse and manage your bookmarks
? Search your browsing history
⚡️ 50+ Actions to Improve Your Productivity
? Special commands for filtering and performing more actions
? Integration with Notion, Figma, Docs, Asana..... .
⌨️ Shortcuts to mute, pin, bookmark and more...
⚙️ Advanced settings to help resolve browsing issues
?Dark mode
There are many, many other features waiting for you to discover, and these can be used for free without registering an account and logging in, if you can’t wait If you want to try out the functions of Omni, you can visit the corresponding website to start downloading:

Github address: https://github.com/alyssaxuu/omni (source code-based installation is available)
Chrome plug-in address: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/omni-bookmark-history-tab/mapjgeachilmcbbokkgcbgpbakaaeehi?hl=en&authuser=0
Firefox plug-in address: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/omnisearch/
Omni has so many functions, then How to use the main functions? Or is there anything you can do to improve productivity in your schedule? Let’s take a look at them one by one.

Switch, open, close and search tags

Search: After you activate the search bar through the shortcut key, You can enter content, and then Tab pages, bookmarks and history will be displayed together

• Switch: After searching for the content, navigate through the up and down keys on the keyboard, and then press Enter to switch to this Tab page

• Open: If the content is now If there are none in the Tab page, bookmarks and history, then you can switch to Google to search directly by pressing Enter on the record, or type New Tab or you can open a new Tab page

• Close: Search for Close and the command to close the current Tab page will be displayed. Press Enter to close it

##Browse and manage your bookmarks

##Browse: enter the letters starting with
• B

  , you will You can view all bookmarks and slide them through

Management: By entering Bookmark, you can create this page as a bookmark by navigating with the up and down keys on the keyboard

Search your browsing historyBy typing

/history

, you will automatically switch to searching your browsing history:

50 Multiple actions to improve your work efficiencyThis one is worth exploring, let me help you After looking at the following content, when you are not searching for anything, you can scroll the mouse to view the list of these functions:

Turn on full screen web page
Mute the current page
Refresh the current page
Create a new email
Create a new Notion document (very considerate)
Create a new Google form
Create a new Medium post Story
Create a new Github repository (workers love it)
Create a new PPT
Create a new Figma page
Publish a ProductHunt product
Publish a Tweet
Start a new meeting
Manage your plugins
Browser settings
....
If you can’t think of it, you can’t do it without it. By typing the corresponding commands, you can quickly manage almost all your work needs in one place. .

Special commands for filtering and performing more operationsBy entering the following text Activate these commands:

• /tabs

  : You can search your Tab page

• /bookmarks

  : You can search all your bookmarks

• /history

  : You can search your history records

• /actions

  : Search all available "actions"

• /remove

  : Delete a bookmark or close a Tab

Integration with Notion, Figma, Docs, Asana...This is also ours As you saw earlier, you can easily open the following content in Omni:

Create a new Notion document
Create a new Figma design file
Create a new Google Docs like PPT
Create a new Asana task
Wait...

##Shortcuts for muting, pinning, bookmarking and other operations... .

Want to mute the current Tab but don’t know how to set it? Want to easily pin this web page but find it troublesome?

Omni can help you!

Mute:

Fixed:

Handle bookmarks:

Advanced settings can help solve browsing problems

In fact, advanced settings are a series of things you may have used, but you don’t feel anything. Functions, such as:

Scroll to the bottom and top of the page

• Reload the page

• Print Page

• Record screen

• Open download page

• Open browser settings

• Return to the previous page

• Go to the next page

• Copy the current page

• Close the browser

• Clear browsing history

• Clear Cookies

• Clear Cache

• Clear Password

• Wait

Dark mode

Dark mode follows the system, if your system settings Switch from light mode to dark mode, then when you restart the browser and open Omni again, the dark mode search window will be displayed!

This is light mode:

This is dark mode:

Summary

Of course, there are more convenient contents that you can only feel after experiencing it yourself. Of course, you can provide new functional requirements or bugs to the author~