What changed, and why

0.1.1 — listing and landing page

Submitted 26 August 2026. No change to how the extension behaves, and no change to the permissions it asks for, so the update adds no new install warning.

• The extension's name and description were rewritten. The Chrome Web Store indexes only the item name, the short description, and the detailed description — and all three led with the coined word "LinkLyst", which meant the listing could only be found by someone who already knew what it was called. The name now says what the thing does.
• This website was built, so that there is a page describing LinkLyst that does not live inside a store search engine most people never open.
• The packaging script now fails the build if the name or short description exceeds what the store accepts, since those limits live in the manifest and are easy to breach by accident.

0.1.0 — first public release

Published 19 August 2026. The first version on the Chrome Web Store.

• Save the current tab from the toolbar, or save a page, link, image, video, or audio URL from the right-click menu without opening it.
• Create, rename, delete, search, and browse named playlists. One item can belong to several playlists, each in its own manual order.
• Search by title, domain, and normalised URL across the whole library or inside one playlist. Filter by domain, saved date, preview state, and playlist membership. Filter state lives in the gallery URL, so Back and Forward work.
• Previews fall back cleanly: thumbnail, then screenshot, then favicon, then a preview generated locally from the domain name.
• A 30-day local Trash for removed items and deleted playlists, restoring them with their order intact.
• Export to clean JSON or a browser-bookmarks HTML file. Restoring a JSON export merges rather than overwrites.
• An optional metadata-only copy in the browser's own profile-sync namespace — Chrome Sync or Firefox Sync — with a Local only toggle and a confirmed, retryable erase.
• Visible keyboard focus, 40–44 px targets, dialogs that trap and restore focus, live result counts, and / to search. The layout holds at 200% zoom.

What is not planned

Worth stating so nobody waits for it. LinkLyst is not going to grow an account system, a server-side library, a social feed, or a sharing model — those are the things the design is deliberately without. It also will not gain a built-in player or reader view, because a saved item opening on the site it came from is the point rather than a limitation.

Known limitations are listed honestly on the FAQ, and the ones that are genuinely open problems — coalescing identical URLs saved independently on two machines, and the browser sync namespace being too small for a large library — are recorded in the repository rather than hidden.