Wisdom New Tab — Naval Almanack

Replace your browser's new-tab page with one timeless idea at a time, drawn from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant.

👉 Install from the Chrome Web Store

A lightweight, privacy-first Chrome extension. Every new tab shows a curated quote with its real surrounding context from the book — shuffle through them, track what you've read, and switch between calm reading themes. 100% local. Zero tracking. No network calls.

Features

• One idea per tab — a hand-curated quote replaces the new-tab page
• Real context, not AI filler — 96% of quotes link to the actual paragraph from the source book (built via a 4-layer fuzzy-matching pipeline, see scripts/)
• Bilingual — English original with optional Chinese translation
• Shuffle reading + progress — work through the collection at your own pace
• Reading themes — light / sepia / dark / ink, tuned for low eye strain
• Truly local & private — settings and progress live in chrome.storage.local; nothing leaves your device, no analytics, no remote code

Privacy

This extension does not collect, transmit, sell, or share any data. The only network action is an optional source link that opens when you click it. Full policy: docs/PRIVACY.md.

Permissions requested:

• storage — save your theme and reading progress locally
• chrome_url_overrides.newtab — render the quote view as your new-tab page

Tech

• Manifest V3, vanilla JavaScript (no framework, no build step to run)
• Quote dataset built from source with Python/JS scripts in scripts/
• ~440 KB packaged

Develop locally

git clone https://github.com/Vicky-v7/naval-quotes.git
cd naval-quotes
# Load unpacked:
# 1. Open chrome://extensions
# 2. Enable "Developer mode"
# 3. "Load unpacked" → select this folder

To rebuild the quote dataset, see the scripts in scripts/ (build-quotes.js, build-context-from-source.py).

Data source & attribution

Quotations are excerpted from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson (2020), licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. The bundled quote data remains under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. This is a non-commercial, free project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Eric Jorgenson or Naval Ravikant.

License

• Code — MIT
• Quote data (data/) — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (see above)

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Built by Vicky (刘维祺) · an AI-native product manager who ships.