Your New Tab, A Visual Thinking Space.

A whiteboard that opens with every new tab. Clip articles, embed videos, expand your notes, and connect your ideas - all on a fixed canvas that fits on one screen.

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5 boards free, no sign-up needed. 10 with a free account. Unlimited for $5/month. No upsells, no lock-in.

Empower Your New Tab

Bookmarks, notes, and tasks—visually arranged.

Transform your New Tab into a hub for productivity.

Find Inspiration

Highlight text, find a great image, or copy a YouTube URL anywhere on the web.

Click to Clip

Right-click and select "Send to Thoughtogram", or simply paste into your New Tab.

Organize Visually

Your clippings appear instantly on your Homeboard. Drag, drop, resize, and color-code to organize.

Designed for Visual Thinkers

Everything you need to organize your ideas spatially, with full control over your data.

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Paste or Type Anywhere

Paste a URL, an image, a YouTube link, or just type into a card. Your content lives on the board where you placed it - no folder, no template, no filing.

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YouTube & Image Embeds

Paste any YouTube URL and the video appears on a movable card. Drop in images and they display instantly. Perfect for tutorials, research, or visual references.

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Drag & Drop Colors

Visual organization without menus. Drag a color onto a card to group related ideas. Drag a trash icon to delete - or flip on the new Select mode to tick or drag-select several cards and clear them in one sweep.

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Expand for Long Text

Short cards stay glanceable on the board; click to expand any card into a full-screen view for long-form notes, research summaries, or articles you're working through.

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Link Boards Together

Type [Board Name] in any card to create a link between boards. Build your own visual wiki - connected, navigable, all yours.

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Export to Markdown

Copy a single card to your clipboard, or download a full board as a Markdown file. Your notes work in Obsidian, Notion, or anywhere else. Always.

How People Use Thoughtogram

Discover how a visual workspace adapts to your workflow.

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Daily notes and tasks

Quick reminders and to-dos that stay visible every time you open a tab. No app to launch, no document to find.

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Visual bookmarks

Arrange your most-used sites spatially instead of burying them in folders. See them all at once.

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Research projects

Collect quotes, links, screenshots, and your own notes in one place. Move ideas around as your thinking develops.

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Reading and watch lists

YouTube videos embed and play directly. Articles you want to come back to. All visible at a glance.

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Project planning

Mood boards, brainstorms, plans. Drag ideas around, connect related boards, see relationships emerge.

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A personal wiki

Type [Board Name] in any card to create a linked board. Build a connected web of topics that's all yours.

An indie project

I started building Thoughtogram because I wanted a better way to use my new tab. After more than a year of refining it, I use it daily for research, planning, and capturing things I read on the web.

It's a small indie project, built by one developer in the UK. If it works for you, subscribing keeps the development going and helps make it sustainable.

Based in the UK. Contact: support@thoughtogram.com

Simple & Transparent

Start with 5 boards free - no sign-up needed, just install. Create a free account to double that to 10 boards, keep them safely tied to your account, and capture from your phone. Need more room? Subscribe for $5/month and build unlimited boards.

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Nothing is ever deleted if you stop paying - boards over your limit simply become read-only. Subscribers help fund a small, sustainable indie product. Thank you.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is my data private?

Yes. Your boards are private to your account. All traffic is encrypted in transit over HTTPS, and your data is protected with server-side encryption on our servers. You can export everything to Markdown whenever you like.

What happens if I uninstall the extension?

Your account and data stay safe on our servers. Reinstall any time and your boards come back. You can also export everything to Markdown before uninstalling if you want a local copy.

What if I cancel my subscription?

Nothing is deleted. Your account moves to the free tier's 10-board allowance: your earliest 10 boards stay fully editable, and any boards beyond that become read-only - you can still open and export them, and they unlock the moment you resubscribe.

Can I use Thoughtogram on my phone?

Yes. There's a Quick Capture mobile app that lets you send notes and clippings to any board. A linear column view also lets you read and reorder your cards on mobile.

How is this different from Notion, Obsidian, Heptabase, or Scrintal?

Notion and Obsidian are powerful but ask you to organize notes into hierarchies and databases. Heptabase and Scrintal are closer cousins - both visual canvas tools for thinking. Thoughtogram differs in three practical ways: it lives in your new tab (zero friction to open, every time you open the browser), the board is deliberately fixed-size so you can see everything at once instead of scrolling an infinite canvas, and it's $5/month rather than the $10-$15 those apps typically charge. Many people use Thoughtogram alongside a traditional notes app: Thoughtogram for active thinking and visual organization, the other tool for long archives.

Why a fixed-size board?

Infinite canvases let you keep adding without ever seeing what you already have. A fixed board forces you to choose what's on it - and means you can take in everything at a glance. Like a desk, not a warehouse.