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Support

Most of this is one click away in the extension itself. The sections below cover the parts that aren’t obvious.

Getting started

Installing opens coolbar.com/extension/connect; sign in (or sign up) there and the extension connects itself. Missed that tab? Click the Coolbar icon and choose Connect your account. That’s the only setup step — nothing to copy or paste. (If you’d rather paste a token, the same popup has a Have a token? link; the token lives at coolbar.com/settings.)

Saving pages

Ctrl+Shift+S saves the page you’re on without opening the popup. You can also right-click a link, or a passage you’ve selected, and choose “Save with Coolbar” — that saves just the link or the selection, not the whole page.

Why does it warn me this isn't an article?

Coolbar reads the page before saving it, and it’s honest about what it finds. A real article gets read and summarized normally. A feed (mostly headlines and links, like a homepage) or an app-like page (a dashboard, an editor) gets a warning instead, because there’s little real text to summarize. You can still save it — the button switches to “Save anyway” and keeps the link and title, it just skips pretending there was an article to read.

Highlights

Select a passage and press Alt+Shift+H, or right-click and choose “Highlight with Coolbar.” It reappears when you come back to that page. If you’d like a small marker on pages you’ve highlighted, turn on “show a highlight pill” in the extension’s ⚙ settings — it’s off by default since it adds Coolbar’s own UI to someone else’s page.

Asking questions

The three chips above the question box — Auto, This page, and My memory — decide where an answer comes from. Auto lets Coolbar route the question itself; This page restricts it to what’s on the tab you’re looking at; My memory searches everything you’ve ever saved.

Focus timer notifications

If you start a focus session from the popup, Coolbar sends a system notification when it ends — the popup is almost always closed by then, so a badge alone would be easy to miss.

Data and billing questions

For what Coolbar stores and why, see Privacy. For the free plan’s limits and everything else, see Terms.

Still stuck? Write to hello@coolbar.com — a real person reads it.