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How Wyrd works.

Wyrd does three jobs. It gets you to the page you mean in one word, without remembering where it lives. It gives a household or team the same words for the same places, from one list where an address changes once. And it puts a window's tabs away under a name for later. These pages explain how, in plain words, down to every permission and network request.

Start here

Every command and keyword form on one page, with the permission each one needs and what, if anything, leaves your computer. New to Wyrd? The first guide takes five minutes.

QUICK REFERENCE

Cheat sheet

Every command on one page, the permission each needs, and what leaves your computer. Switch on only what you are comfortable with.

> /clear Read the page GUIDE / 01

Your first keyword

Install Wyrd, save a page as a keyword and open it from the address bar, step by step with pictures.

> gh Read the guide

Topics

Each page answers one question completely. Start with keyword syntax if you are new; team leads and IT admins will want shared lists, then the reference pages.

DOCS / 01

Keyword syntax

Pages, searches with %s, numbered blanks, aliases, several pages at once, sub-keywords, and how Wyrd finds the keyword you meant.

> jira PROJ 123 Read the page DOCS / 02

/home, /clear, /dedupe, tabs/<name> and the rest, right-click search, and typing keywords without the >.

> /home Read the page DOCS / 03

Shared lists

For team leads and IT admins: a Google Sheet, a GitHub file or any https JSON or CSV, the file formats, namespaces, refresh and tokens.

> team/wiki Read the page DOCS / 04

Tab bundles

Save and restore tabs in Chrome by keyword: clearing a window, closing duplicates, and which bundles follow you.

> /clear research Read the page DOCS / 05

Backups and moving computers

What Chrome sync carries, backup files, a folder that keeps itself current, your own Google Sheet, and restoring.

wyrd-backup-(date).json Read the page

Reference

Wyrd as a whole: every permission and request, and what differs between the browsers.

REFERENCE / 01

Permissions and data

Every Chrome permission and why, what is stored where, the sync limits, and every network request Wyrd can make.

no server · no account Read the page REFERENCE / 02

Chrome and Firefox

The same Wyrd in both browsers. What differs: the ! prefix, the sidebar, Google sign-in, Firefox's consent, and two features.

! gh Read the page

What Wyrd is, and is not

The same lists are in wyrd.page/llms.txt, the summary written for AI assistants. The privacy policy has every detail.

What Wyrd does

  • Gets you to the page you mean in one word, without remembering where it lives: type > and a space, then the keyword, in Chrome's address bar.
  • Takes the words after a keyword into a search (%s where the words go), or fills numbered blanks (%1, %2) into an address, so a ticket or order number goes straight to its record.
  • Gives everyone in a household or team the same words for the same places: a shared list kept in a Google Sheet, a GitHub file or any https JSON or CSV file, re-read every 6 hours. An address changes once, in the list, for everyone subscribed. Your own keywords always win.
  • Invite links for shared lists (Copy invite link: opening it fills in the list's address, and nothing is subscribed until the person presses Subscribe; never a token), and lists an organisation presets for everyone through a Chrome policy (SharedLists: up to 10 public https lists, shown as "Set by your organisation").
  • Puts a window's tabs away under a name and brings them back later, when you switch Tab bundles on: > /clear saves and closes them, > tabs/<name> reopens them, and > /dedupe keeps one tab per site and saves the rest as a bundle.
  • Opens a record by its number in the tools people work in, typed or right-clicked: a Jira ticket, a ServiceNow incident, a Salesforce account, a Shopify order. wyrd.page has a step-by-step guide for each of ten tools.
  • Finds a keyword you forgot: suggestions as you type, matches on description or category, one typo forgiven, and the Keywords page (> /home) with every keyword you can type.
  • Aliases (@library), keywords that open several pages at once, sub-keywords (dentist/call) and keywords with spaces.
  • Right-click search, usage counts, change history with undo, backups, and import and export in JSON or CSV.

What it does not do

  • The extension has no server, no account and no analytics, and the developer receives none of your data.
  • It does not load or run code from the internet; everything it runs is in the installed extension.
  • It does not read the content of the pages you visit.
  • It does not see your open tabs unless you switch on Tab bundles, or your browsing history unless you allow it for suggestions or page titles. At install it sees one tab: the one in front, when you click its icon.
  • It makes no network request unless you set something up: a shared list or starter pack you read, a GitHub commit you make, the optional AI helper, Define, or Google Sheet backup and sync.
  • It does not sell, share or transfer data.
  • A keyword is not a public web address: it works in a browser that has Wyrd, and a shared keyword only for people subscribed to that list.
  • The website, wyrd.page, sets no cookies and runs no tracking script; it counts page views from the web server's own logs (Netlify's analytics).

Who it is for

  • Anyone who goes back to the same pages and would rather type one word they remember than look for where a link lives.
  • Households that want one list of the family's links (the water bill, the school portal, the recipe folder) in a Google Sheet, so everyone types the same word.
  • Teams that want the same keywords for everyone from one Google Sheet or GitHub file, and to change an address once for all of them, without running a server or handing out accounts.
  • People with too many tabs, who want to put a window's tabs away under a name and bring them back later.
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