Wyrd has no server, no account and no analytics. What you type stays in Chrome, and nothing is sent anywhere unless you set up something that needs it. The tables below say exactly which things those are.
Choose how much Wyrd may do
Every optional part has its own switch on Wyrd's Features page (Settings → Features). Chrome asks for a permission only when you switch on the feature that uses it, and switching it off gives the permission back. Nothing you made is deleted.
| Level | You get | Chrome asks for | What leaves your computer |
|---|---|---|---|
| The basics (a new install) | Keywords and searches, the Keywords page, the history of a keyword, saving a page as a keyword, right-click search | Nothing beyond the install prompt | Nothing. If you use Chrome sync, your keywords follow you through it, like your bookmarks do. |
| + Tab bundles | Put a window's tabs away under a name and bring them back by keyword; close duplicate tabs | Access to your open tabs. Chrome words it as "Read your browsing history". | Nothing. Your 10 most recent bundles follow you through your own Chrome sync. |
| + Any of the rest, one switch each | Define & translate, your own Google Sheet backup, backups to a folder, reminders, your own right-click searches | Only what that one feature needs (in the table below) | Only what that feature is for: the word you look up, or your backup going to your own Google Drive |
Is it OK to switch everything on?
Yes. With every feature on, Wyrd has the same kinds of permission any tab manager, dictionary or backup extension uses, and each is used only for the job it is listed for here. The browser warnings sound bigger than the use:
- "Read your browsing history" is what Chrome calls access to your open tabs. Wyrd reads the address and title of your open tabs when you type a tab command, such as
> /clear, and at no other time. It does not read your past history; that is a separate permission, asked for only if you press Scan my history. - The install prompt's "Read and change your data on wyrd.internal" is one address that can never be a real website. It is how your private search address reaches Wyrd inside Chrome. No other website is looked at or changed.
- Define & translate may show its card in the page you right-clicked. The card does not read the page; only the word you chose goes to the dictionary.
The short version. Wyrd runs no code from the internet and has no server to send anything to. Every version is reviewed by the Chrome Web Store before it reaches you. And every permission comes back off with the switch that turned it on. The full list, by permission, by place of storage and by request, is permissions and data.
Every command
Type > in Chrome's address bar, press Space, then any of these.
| You type | What it does | Needs | Chrome asks for |
|---|---|---|---|
> gh, > yt lofi | Opens a keyword's site; words after it search that site | Nothing | Nothing |
> /home, > /home hr | The Keywords page, or one category of it | Nothing (a starter keyword) | Nothing |
> /team | The Keywords page at your shared lists | Nothing (a starter keyword) | Nothing |
> dance/history, > /history | Every address a keyword pointed at before | Nothing | Nothing |
> tabs/research | Reopens the bundle research (> research alone, when nothing else is called that) | Tab bundles | Access to your open tabs |
> /clear, > /clear research | Saves this window's tabs as a bundle, then closes them | Tab bundles | Access to your open tabs |
> /snapshot, > /snapshot research | New in 1.2Saves this window's tabs as a bundle and keeps them open | Tab bundles | Access to your open tabs |
> /snapshotall | New in 1.2The same for every window | Tab bundles | Access to your open tabs |
> /dedupe, here, exact | Closes duplicate tabs, saving the ones it closes as a bundle | Tab bundles | Access to your open tabs |
> /save, > /save recipe | Saves the tab in front in today's bundle (tagged #recipe), then closes it | Tab bundles | Access to your open tabs |
> /clearall | Saves the tabs of every window as a bundle, then closes them | Advanced tab bundles | Nothing more than Tab bundles |
More on each: commands and no-prefix search, tab bundles.
Keyword forms
What a keyword itself can do. None of these needs a permission.
| You type | What it does | More |
|---|---|---|
> jira PROJ 123 | Fills numbered blanks: …/browse/%1-%2 becomes …/browse/PROJ-123. | Numbered blanks |
> lib | An alias: lib is saved as @library, so it does whatever library does. | Aliases |
> morning | Opens several pages at once (addresses separated by " | "). | Several pages |
> dentist call | Opens the sub-keyword dentist/call, for example a tel: link. | Sub-keywords |
> team/wiki | Opens wiki from the shared list you named team. | Namespaces |
Without the >
Each takes a minute, once, in Chrome's settings and Wyrd's Settings → Optional setup. Step by step: search without the prefix (also for a trigger of your own) and Incognito windows.
| You type | What it does | Needs | Chrome asks for |
|---|---|---|---|
gh, yt lofi | The same as with >, typed straight into the address bar | Optional setup: Wyrd as your search engine (you paste one address into Chrome's settings). How | Nothing |
Your own trigger, such as / gh | The same, after a character you choose | Optional setup, step 1. How | Nothing |
> gh in an Incognito window | Keywords in Incognito too | Allow in Incognito, on chrome://extensions. How | Nothing |
Features without a command
| Feature | What it does | Chrome asks for | What leaves your computer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Right-click search | Search selected text with your three most-used searches | Nothing | Nothing (the search opens like any page) |
| Your right-click searches | Choose the searches the right-click menu shows | Nothing | Nothing |
| Reminders | "dentist, every 3 months", with a count on the icon when due | Nothing | Nothing |
| Define & translate | A card with the meaning or translation of the word you right-clicked | Showing the card in the page; the dictionary's site | The one word you define, to api.dictionaryapi.dev. Translations are made on your computer. |
| Google Sheet backup and sync | Every bundle on every computer, and a daily backup of your keywords | Nothing until you press Sign in with Google; then Google asks, for the files Wyrd makes in your Drive only | Your bundles and backup, to one sheet in your own Google Drive |
| Automatic backups to a folder | A backup file kept up to date in a folder you pick | Chrome asks to let Wyrd edit files in that one folder | Nothing (a folder that a sync app such as OneDrive keeps in sync is your choice) |
| Scan my history | Keyword suggestions from the sites you visit most | Access to your history, when you press the button; one click takes it back | Nothing. Read on your computer. |
| Download CSV, Export CSV | New in 1.2Every saved tab (Tab bundles page) or every keyword (Keyword tools) as a spreadsheet | Nothing | Nothing: the file goes to your Downloads |
| The cheat sheet in Wyrd | New in 1.2This page's commands on Wyrd's Features page, with whether each one works in your Chrome right now and the switch for those that do not | Nothing | Nothing |
| Shared lists | Keywords from a Google Sheet or file your team keeps | Access to that one list's site, when you add it | A request to read the list, with the sign-in you chose for it |
Every request, permission and stored item, in full: permissions and data and the privacy policy.
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