V 1.3.2
August 5, 2026
- Flags: star colors can now carry your own names. Open the star palette on any row and label a color ("Read later", "Important"); the name then shows in star tooltips, and searching for it finds every tab, window, or bookmark flagged with that color, in tree search, AI search, and AI chat and tools alike. Colors ship unlabeled with greyed suggestions, so nothing changes until you name one. Flag names and custom flag colors sync across your browsers (with cloud sync on a paid plan): rename a flag or add a custom color in one browser and every other signed-in browser picks it up, in the palette, tooltips, and search.
- Keyboard: Alt+T opens Pinako from anywhere in the browser, without reaching for the toolbar icon. It works whichever window or tab you're in, and you can change it (or clear it) in Chrome's own shortcuts page at chrome://extensions/shortcuts.
- Right-click menu: two new items, "Close Tab & Keep in Pinako Tree" and "Close Window & Keep in Pinako Tree", close in the browser while the tab or window stays in your tree as a ghost. The menu now also appears when you right-click a tab in the tab strip, acting on that tab.
- Snapshots: automatic snapshots can now run more often than once an hour. The Frequency setting takes a number and a unit (minutes, hours, or days), down to every 5 minutes. The storage estimate in Snapshot Settings is more accurate, turns red when a setting would use a lot of disk.
- Tree: tabs you've pinned in the browser now show a small pushpin beside their favicon, so you can tell at a glance which rows are your pinned tabs. It follows the browser live, appearing and disappearing the moment you pin or unpin.
V 1.3.0
July 29, 2026
Browser Tab Groups, rebuilt: your browser's tab groups now live in the tree as their own container nodes, with the group's member tabs nested inside. A group node carries the group's name and color, and its member tabs carry color markers too. Collapse a group in the tree and it collapses in the browser, and the other way around. "Close (and save) Group", "Delete Group", and "Ungroup" all sync both ways, whether you run them from the tree or from the browser.
- Tab Groups list: the tree-operations menu at the left of the search bar has a new Tab Groups button listing every group in one place, whether it's open in the browser, closed but kept in your tree, or saved in a Library. Each entry shows the group's name in its color with its tab count and where it lives; clicking one jumps to its row, and a Library entry opens that Library beside your tree. Closed groups get a Reopen button on hover.
- From the keyboard: press G to open the list, then filter by typing and press Enter to jump to the match.
- Reopening a group the browser closed now asks first. Rebuilding the group makes the browser save it as a brand new one, so a second chip with the same name shows up in the browser's own tab-group list, and no extension can prevent or remove it. Pinako explains this up front and lets you open anyway, cancel, or hide the warning next time.
- Multi-select: select many rows at once, everywhere trees live. Ctrl-click a row (Cmd-click on Mac), or use the new tree-operations menu at the left of the search bar, to start a selection, then Shift-click to extend it. A floating bar shows the count along with bulk actions: Copy to Library, Star, Tags, add to a Tab Group, Close, and Delete. Drag any selected row to move the whole selection at once, in the main tree, in Libraries, in the Bookmarks panel, and across panels. Every bulk action or multi-drag is a single undo step.
- Folders can now be copied into a Library from the Bookmarks panel, from a synced device's mobile bookmarks, or from another Library. The whole folder comes across with its contents, and the copy is independent of your browser's bookmarks.
- Fixed a bug where deleting a folder in a Library removed only the folder itself and left its tabs behind at the top level. A folder now deletes with everything inside it, matching how windows, Tab Groups, and bookmark folders already behaved. Ctrl+Z restores the folder and its contents.
- Double-click an image in any note (Main Notes or library notes) to view it full size in a built-in viewer, with arrow keys to move between that note's images, plus one-click download and copy to clipboard.
- Hold Shift while dropping a dragged parent tab to move just that tab and leave its nested children behind, each promoted up one level. A normal drag still moves the whole branch. A one-time tip explains this the first time you drag a parent tab.
- Opening a tab from the tree in the background with a modifier click is now Alt-click (Option-click on Mac); Ctrl-click (Cmd-click on Mac) now starts a multi-select instead. Middle-click and Shift+Enter still work as before.
- Clone View: the cloned panel now has its own Collapse All and Expand All buttons, and the two panels keep independent collapsed states, so you can collapse everything on one side while the other stays expanded.
- Full Screen now survives opening and closing panels, and remembers panel widths separately, so a width you set on the big screen no longer follows you back into the windowed layout.
- In Clone View and three-panel views, the main toolbar buttons now stay anchored at the right edge of the first panel instead of centering across the whole window, so they no longer slide away from your cursor as panels open and close.
- Naming: Pinako's "Group nodes" are now called "Window Groups", and "Home Tab Groups" are now called "Home Tab Sets", across the app and the user guide, so they read clearly and don't get confused with the browser's own Tab Groups.
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 Set 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.