V 1.2.2
July 15, 2026
- RAM-Saver suspended tabs now open as lightweight placeholder pages that load the site the moment you click them, improving cohesion with built-in browser load and other suspender extensions, and always displaying full titles and favicons in browser tabs.
- Open a tab or window from the tree in the background (instead of focusing it) with middle-click (or mouse-wheel click), Ctrl-click (Cmd-click on Mac), or press Shift+Enter. A new "Middle-click opens tabs in the background" option (on by default) replaces the old "Keep Pinako focused when opening tabs" option; turn it off if you'd rather middle-click scroll the tree.
V 1.2.1
July 12, 2026
- Numerous interface polishes and animation refinements.
- Browser toolbar and page right-click menus now let you choose which home tab group to open or switch to.
- Export/import tabs and libraries as CSV, Markdown, or Org (alongside JSON/HTML).
- Dragging an item between two open Libraries now moves it, holding Ctrl copies it; cursor shows which. Undo restores to exact origin.
- Tabs suspended by any tab-suspender extension are now recognized, not just the most common ones, so imports keep them, Copy URL gives the real page link, and duplicate detection matches them correctly.
- Improved tree-browser sync by hardening various edge cases.
- SAML single sign-on (SSO) now available for both Enterprise and Premium.
- Tree rows are calmer at rest: only Close and Delete stay visible (plus the star when one is set), and rows with a memo or tags show small yellow/blue indicator dots instead of extra buttons. Hover a row to get the full set of buttons, always in the same places. The Show Memo Button and Show Tags Button options were removed since the dots now show this per row automatically.
V 1.1.5
July 5, 2026
- Export and import your tabs and libraries as CSV, Markdown, or Org files, in addition to the existing JSON and HTML. CSV is a flat, spreadsheet-friendly list of links; Markdown and Org keep your folder nesting, and Org also preserves tags, memos, and star colors. Importing understands all of these, plus any saved or pasted list of links. JSON and HTML remain the full-fidelity backup formats.
V 1.1.4
June 30, 2026
- Right-click anywhere on a webpage to open a Pinako menu with the same options as the toolbar icon (Add Tab or Window to Library, Home Tabs actions, and more).
- Google Drive and Dropbox automatic backups, plus HTML export, are now included in the free extension and no longer limited to paid plans. HTML export saves all your trees and data as a readable, portable file any browser can open or import.
- Opening tabs or windows from the tree now keeps the Pinako window in front instead of letting the new window take focus. You can turn this off in Options.
V 1.1.3
June 22, 2026
- General touchscreen improvements.
- Improved panel-width memory for 2 and 3 panel modes.
- Fixed a bug that occasionally caused the list of saved Home Tabs to be cleared after a launch restore.
V 1.1.0 THE LIBRARIAN HAS ARR—"Shhh!" ...the librarian has arrived(!)
May 27, 2026
Introducing Pinako AI Librarian (Pro and above): a new agentic AI layer with two surfaces that can do almost anything you can do manually inside Pinako. It can tag, memo, rename, recolor, create and edit notes, and rearrange or organize your tabs, windows, libraries, library groups, and bookmarks.
- In-extension chat panel streams responses from Pinako AI (Grok 4.3) or your own keys for Anthropic, OpenAI-compatible providers, Google Gemini, and OpenRouter. Searchable conversation history syncs across your signed-in devices. Unified AI Settings panel.
- Pinako AI Bridge (previously read-only) now exposes 27 write tools alongside its 21 read tools, so Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT, and any other MCP-aware client can drive Pinako through your existing AI subscription.
- Multi-browser routing lets one AI session act across every Chromium browser signed into the same account.
- Monthly AI credits bumped across paid tiers: Pro 100 to 150, Pro+ 200 to 300, Premium 500 to 800, Enterprise 1,500 to 2,500.
- Transfer tabs from your main tree or libraries straight into your phone's Mobile Bookmarks. A new sub-tab inside the synced devices panel mirrors the Mobile Bookmarks folder. Drag anything in (whole windows convert to folders) and changes sync back through the browser to mobile.
- Browser bookmarks now have full export and import support. JSON and HTML exports include Pinako metadata (nesting, tags, memos). Import accepts Netscape HTML from any browser.
- Library storage moved off the legacy 5 MB chrome.storage.local cap, so very large libraries and bulk imports save reliably.
- Search Notes mode in the search toolbar works again. Typing now shows the cross-tree notes results panel (was silently inert due to a function-name collision).
- Stale tab row title and favicon now reconcile from live Chrome state on popup re-open and window focus.
- Tab dragged to depth-0 from a single-tab window now becomes a window-move in the tree without Chrome-window churn.
V 1.0.2
May 6, 2026
- Improved Chrome Tab Group synchronization between tree and browser.
- Post-drop quiet zone protecting the undo entry from late Chrome event echoes.
V 1.0.1
May 4, 2026
- Fixed a rare refresh loop and portal sync churn triggered by an off-screen, browser-throttled tab whose title or favicon cycled rapidly (e.g. a chat tab with an unread notification).
- Added a per-tag X button in the tag popup.
- Hover a row whose title is too long to fit and after 1.2s the text auto-scrolls horizontally so you can read the full title without clicking.
- Added Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z keyboard shortcuts for undo/redo actions.
🎉 V 1.0
April 22, 2026
The first stable release of Pinako! :D
- Hierarchical tree of tabs, windows, and groups
- Bookmark sync, notes, memos, tags, and snapshots
- Cloud sync across devices (Pro)
- Library sharing (Pro)
- Collaborative workspaces (Pro+)
- AI natural language search and MCP AI Bridge (Pro)
- And oodles of other features.