Welcome to Linxy Tab

Linxy Tab is a next-generation browser start page for saving tabs, organizing links, AI search, and structure visualization. Install from the Chrome Web Store or Microsoft Edge Add-ons, then use this guide to get started.

📐 The 3-Level Organization System

To handle thousands of bookmarks, we use a clean Kanban-style 3-tier architecture instead of nested folders:

🗂️ Core: 10 Card Engines

Linxy Tab is more than a bookmark manager. We provide 10 different card types to make your new tab page a powerful digital dashboard:

Basic Cards (Free)

• 🔗 URL Card: Save web pages with custom icons and one-click access.
• 📝 Note Card: Quick notes with Markdown-style formatting.
• ✅ Todo Card: Lightweight task management with checkboxes.
• ⏳ Countdown Card: Track important deadlines, payday, or anniversaries.
• 🖼️ Image Card: Build moodboards, supports pasting image URLs directly.

Pro Cards PRO

• 💻 Code Snippet Card: For developers, supports syntax highlighting for 30+ languages.
• 🤖 AI Prompt Card: Save common prompts, copy with one click or send directly to AI models.
• ⚡ Webhook Card: Automation hub, trigger server APIs with one click.
• 📡 RSS Feed Card: Track your favorite blogs or news sources directly on your new tab.
• 📢 Creator Subscription Card: Enter a creator's sub code to unlock and subscribe to their curated content.

📥 Saving & Managing Content

1. Save Current Page

• Quick Save: Press Alt + S (Mac: Cmd + Shift + S) to instantly save the current page to your default folder and close it.
• Batch Save (OneTab Alternative): In the plugin's right sidebar "Currently Open Tabs" area, click "📥 Save All" to instantly package all tabs and free up system memory.

2. Drag & Drop

Like organizing files on your desktop, drag any card into another folder; or drag it left to move it across Channels for instant cross-workspace transfer.

🔍 Omni Deep Search

Press Ctrl + K (Mac: Cmd + K) to activate the global command palette.

• Lightning-fast Pinyin Search: Remember the name? Type the pinyin initials, e.g., search "Taobao" with just tb, millisecond response.
• AI Search PRO: Forgot the bookmark name? Enter a vague description (e.g., "that yellow website for flowcharts"), and the AI will help locate it through relevance reranking!

☁️ Ultimate Data Sync Center

Linxy Tab uses a local-first design. Bookmark data is stored in your browser by default. Optional WebDAV sync lets you back up to endpoints you control (public cloud, NAS, or self-hosted server).

🏥 Option A: Public Cloud (WebDAV)

Recommended for beginners — zero infrastructure setup required:

• Koofr — Universal cloud connector with WebDAV support. https://app.koofr.net/dav/Koofr/
• pCloud — Swiss-based secure storage. https://webdav.pcloud.com/
• Dropbox / Google Drive / OneDrive — Via third-party WebDAV bridge services
• Nextcloud / ownCloud — Self-hosted or hosted instances

Option B: Private NAS

For setups where you prefer storage on your own network hardware:

• Synology — Most popular NAS for home & SMB (WebDAV port: 5005/5006)
• QNAP — Enterprise-grade with hybrid cloud features (WebDAV port: 8080/8081)
• TrueNAS — Open-source enterprise NAS solution
• Unraid — Flexible array-based NAS for enthusiasts
• Asustor — Budget-friendly NAS from ASUS

🖥️ Option C: Self-hosted Server

For developers and tech enthusiasts with existing VPS infrastructure:

• AWS EC2, Google Cloud, Azure, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode
• Deploy Nginx WebDAV, Apache WebDAV module, or Docker-based WebDAV containers

⚙️ Setup Steps

1. Go to ⚙️ Settings -> ☁️ Data Sync Center
2. Select your preferred provider category (Public Cloud / NAS / Self-hosted)
3. Click your provider button to auto-fill the WebDAV URL
4. Enter your credentials and app password
5. Enable "Auto Sync" for scheduled backup, or manually trigger sync anytime

🤖 AI Engine — Online API Mode PRO

After upgrading to Pro, you need to configure your own API Key to unlock AI features. Linxy supports all major online AI models:

Supported Models

• OpenAI GPT ? GPT-4o-mini, GPT-4, etc. https://api.openai.com/v1
• Claude ? Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3 Opus https://api.anthropic.com/v1
• Google Gemini ? Gemini 2.0 Flash, Gemini Pro https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/openai
• DeepSeek ? DeepSeek Chat (cost-effective) https://api.deepseek.com/v1
• Groq (Mistral) ? Ultra-fast open-source inference https://api.groq.com/openai/v1

Recommended Providers

• OpenRouter ? Unified API for 100+ models, pay-as-you-go
• Together AI ? Fast open-source model inference with free credits

Getting Started

1. Register at OpenRouter.ai or any AI platform
2. Get your API key from the platform
3. Go to ⚙️ Settings -> 🤖 AI Settings -> Online Mode
4. Select your preferred model, enter the API key and endpoint URL
5. Click Save ? your AI features are now active!

🖥️ AI Engine — Local Mode (Ollama) PRO

Linxy supports optional Ollama — run models locally for AI features you choose to enable, using endpoints you configure.

Setup Steps

1. Install Ollama: Download from ollama.com and install on your computer (Windows/Mac/Linux supported)
2. Download Models: Run ollama pull llama3.2 or ollama pull deepseek-r1 in terminal
3. Start Ollama Server: Run ollama serve (default: http://localhost:11434)
4. Configure Linxy: Go to ⚙️ Settings -> 🤖 AI Settings -> Local Mode
5. Enter your Ollama endpoint (http://localhost:11434) and model name
6. Click Save — enjoy AI features with your configured local provider!

Recommended Ollama Models

• llama3.2 — Fast, efficient, great for most tasks
• deepseek-r1 — Excellent reasoning capabilities
• qwen2.5 — Strong multilingual support
• mistral — Balanced performance

? Daily AI Magic PRO

After configuring your API key, you'll unlock these powerful features:

• Auto-Organize New: Have dozens of messy bookmarks? Click ✨ AI Auto-Organize and the AI will read titles, create folders, and categorize everything!
• Global Rewrite: Default titles too long? Click 📝 AI Global Rewrite to let AI shorten titles and auto-fill descriptions.
• Icon Assignment: Click the ✨ wand above any channel, and AI will auto-match the most suitable emoji icon based on the channel name.

🖥️ Linxy Desktop — Beta 0.1.0 (Windows x64 Beta)

Linxy Desktop is a local-first desktop knowledge companion for Linxy. Browse, search and index your Linxy knowledge locally, and connect it to supported AI clients through read-only MCP.

• Extension ↔ Desktop sync: sync your collections from the Linxy extension to Desktop with one click, or let auto-sync keep them in step
• Local knowledge: your synced collections are stored and indexed on your machine — Desktop keeps working offline
• Local bridge: the extension and Desktop talk over a Native Messaging local bridge that never leaves your machine

Download

• Installer (Windows x64 Beta): LinxyDesktop-Setup-0.1.0-x64.exe
• Release page: github.com/ZM-JiaMing/linxytab-releases
• SHA256: C4885422B25E868F378AC4767C27B4CBA850E4E39DA185ABEDA3E02B55DE59BC

Extension offline build (optional)

The extension is primarily installed from the Chrome Web Store or Microsoft Edge Add-ons. If you prefer a full offline build, download the official GitHub package:

• Full offline ZIP: LinxyTab_v1.2.0_full.zip
• SHA256: 1924008E135989E91455BA8916D951E75633FF52947F5A16D609F163E7E34D7F

🔌 AI Connections Beta

AI Connections is a Linxy Desktop feature: it connects your local Linxy knowledge to external AI clients. This is separate from the extension's own AI Provider settings (BYOK API key / Ollama) described in the AI Engine section above.

Supports 10 AI clients, with one-click and manual setup options:

• One-click setup (3): TRAE, Claude Desktop, Google Antigravity
• Manual setup (7): Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot / VS Code, Claude Code, JetBrains AI Assistant, Cline, OpenCode

An external AI client only reads your Linxy knowledge when you enable the connection and the client invokes Linxy's MCP tools — your collections are never sent automatically.

🛡️ Read-only Local MCP Tools

Linxy Desktop provides 4 read-only local MCP tools — one local server over standard input/output, with no network port. They can search and read your saved context; they never write, create, or delete anything:

• linxy_get_status
• linxy_search_cards
• linxy_get_card
• linxy_get_saved_context

💎 Activate Pro & Device Management

After obtaining a Pro license key, you can activate anytime within the extension:

Device Authorization

• Yearly Plan: Up to 3 simultaneous devices
• Lifetime Plan: Up to 5 simultaneous devices

To switch to a new computer, please click "Unbind Device" in the old computer's settings or contact support for assistance.

🧹 Clean Mode PRO

Upgrade to Pro and enable Clean Mode for a distraction-free experience:

• No Recommendations: When enabled, creating new channels or folders won't automatically add "Featured Recommendations" cards
• How to Enable: Go to ⚙️ Settings -> Toggle Controls, find and switch the "Clean Mode" toggle

📱 Send to Phone

Push a collection or tab to your phone and keep browsing across devices:

1. Click the 📱 Send to Phone button at the bottom left
2. Pair once by scanning the QR code with your phone camera, or enter a 6-digit direct connection code
3. Select the bookmark cards you want to send and click "Send" — links open on your phone

• Remembered pairing: your phone is remembered after the first pairing and reconnects automatically next time — no need to re-scan
• Direct data path: content travels directly between your computer and phone (WebRTC P2P), not stored on Linxy servers
• Forget pairing: you can remove a remembered phone anytime in the pairing settings

🧹 Space Cleaner PRO

A lifesaver for digital hoarders! Click the broom icon at the bottom left to enter Cleaner:

• Smart Deduplication: Automatically scan the entire database, find accidentally duplicated bookmarks, and merge/clean them with one click.
• Dead Link Detection: Send high-concurrency probes to check which websites have gone offline (404/502), keeping your knowledge base fresh and clean.

📋 Clone & Smart Trash

• Magic Clone: In any workspace, channel, or folder's ⚙️ settings popup, click the 📋 Clone button. Instantly create a perfect copy with all data, perfect for backups or reorganization.
• Smart Trash: Accidentally deleted cards? Click the 🗑️ Trash icon at the bottom left. It records all deleted cards (up to 100 items) and supports batch restore.

🌐 P2P LAN Sync (Peer-to-Peer)

Need instant sync between two nearby devices without setting up a cloud server? Linxy Tab supports direct P2P sync via WebRTC:

• Zero Configuration: Both devices on the same network ? no WebDAV setup needed
• End-to-End Encrypted: Data is transmitted directly between browsers via encrypted WebRTC channels
• No Server Dependency: PeerJS signaling servers are used only for initial peer discovery ? your data payload never passes through any server

How to Use

1. Open ⚙️ Settings -> ☁️ Data Sync Center on both devices
2. Switch to the P2P tab
3. One device generates a pairing code; the other enters it
4. Click Connect ? your data syncs directly, peer-to-peer

? Time Machine Auto-Backup

Linxy Tab automatically protects your data with a 3-tier rotating snapshot system ? no configuration required:

• Automatic: Snapshots are created automatically ? no manual action needed
• Local Only: All snapshots stay in your browser storage, never uploaded
• One-Click Restore: Open ⚙️ Settings -> ☁️ Data Sync Center -> ⏱️ Time Machine to browse and restore any snapshot
• Pre-Import Safety: A snapshot is automatically created before any JSON import

📤 Import & Export — Data Portability

Your data belongs to you. Linxy Tab provides full data portability:

Export

1. Open ⚙️ Settings -> 📤 Export Data
2. Choose export scope: All workspaces, or select specific ones
3. Click Export ? a complete JSON file downloads instantly

Import

1. Open ⚙️ Settings -> 📥 Import Data
2. Select a previously exported JSON file
3. Review the preview of what will be imported
4. Click Import ? your data is restored

Browser Bookmarks Import

Coming from another bookmark manager? Use the Import Browser Bookmarks option to convert your existing Chrome bookmarks into Linxy Tab cards ? processed locally in your browser during import.

🎮 New User Quest — 72-Hour Pro Trial

New users automatically enter a 72-hour onboarding quest that lets you experience Pro features for free:

🌐 Multi-Language Support

Linxy Tab speaks your language. The interface is fully translated into 7 languages:

• 🇨🇳 简体中文 (Simplified Chinese)
• 🇺🇸 English
• 🇯🇵 日本語 (Japanese)
• 🇰🇷 한국어 (Korean)
• 🇪🇸 Español (Spanish)
• 🇩🇪 Deutsch (German)
• 🇫🇷 Français (French)

The Extension automatically matches your browser's language setting. You can also manually switch languages in ⚙️ Settings -> Language.

❓ FAQ & Support

Q: I reinstalled my computer, how do I restore data?

A: Assuming you configured WebDAV sync before. After reinstalling the extension, configure the same cloud account and click ⚙️ Settings -> ? Restore from Cloud to instantly restore all your data, settings, and organization!

Q: Does the Lifetime Pro key expire? Will reinstalling the OS reduce my device count?

A: Lifetime keys are valid forever! Reinstalling the OS or browser on the same computer and re-entering the key will NOT reduce your device quota (the system identifies you via hardware fingerprint).

Q: "Plugin not detected" error when importing templates?

A: This usually happens because communication is broken after installing or updating the extension. Just press F5 to hard refresh the page and try importing again.

Q: Encountered a bug or want to collaborate? How can I contact you?

A: We provide 24/7 support:
- Twitter/X: @LinxyTab
- Email: hello@linxytab.com