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Save pages, images & notes into collections — with dead-link snapshots, sharing, AI search & organize, a reading list, and more. Collections Plus is an open, local-first replacement for Microsoft Edge Collections (which Microsoft is retiring around Edge 149, mid-2026). Save web pages, images, and notes into organized collections — with no account, no server, and no telemetry. Your data stays in your browser. SAVE ANYTHING • Save the current page with one click or Ctrl+Shift+S (with thumbnail, favicon and title). • Right-click any page, link, image, or selected text to save it — or save selection as a highlight with a link back to its source and your own note. • Add all open tabs to a collection at once, or drag a link or image onto the panel. • Auto-file rules route quick-saves into the right collection by domain, URL, or title. ORGANIZE • Folders, tags, pinning, and custom covers keep big libraries tidy. • Checkboxes turn any collection into a checklist; custom fields (price, qty, SKU…) add structured data that flows into exports. • Sort by newest, oldest, or A–Z (or keep your manual drag order), and switch to a compact view to see more at once. • A recoverable Trash (auto-emptied after 30 days) and an Archive mean nothing vanishes by accident. • Fetch missing images. Backfill preview pictures for pages imported from a CSV (or any page saved without one) — in bulk per collection, across every collection, or one at a time. Fills blanks by default; a setting switches it to refresh existing covers too. FIND IT AGAIN • Search across titles, URLs, notes, tags, and custom fields, with a per-collection filter box. • AI search (✨) finds items by meaning, not just keywords. • Reading list: saved pages start unread and collect in one place — open one to mark it read. • Command palette (Ctrl+K) to jump to any collection or run any command. • Address-bar search: type "col" then your query to find a saved page without opening the panel. BEAT LINK ROT • Check links flags saved pages that have gone dead; turn on auto-check to run it quietly in the background. • Save a readable snapshot of any page so the content survives even if the original disappears. SHARE & EXPORT • Share any collection as a clean, self-contained web page you can send to anyone. • Export to real Excel (.xlsx) with clickable links, plus CSV, Markdown, and HTML; copy links to the clipboard. • High-fidelity JSON backup and a local version history you can roll back to. BRING YOUR OWN AI (OPTIONAL) • Bring your own API key to enable optional AI features — works with major AI providers, or run a fully local model so nothing leaves your machine. • Chat with your collections, summarize a page into a TL;DR, suggest tags, organize a collection, or get a weekly digest of what you saved. • Your key is stored locally, never synced, never exported, and never seen by the developer. MIGRATE & SYNC • Import your Edge Collections export (CSV), or import your Chrome/Edge bookmarks (each folder becomes a collection). • Optional cross-device sync through a single file in any cloud-synced folder — still no account, no server. PRIVACY Everything is stored locally in your browser. Sync, offline image caching, dead-link checking, and all AI features are off until you turn them on. When you use an AI feature, the relevant collection data goes from your browser straight to the AI provider you chose (or to a local model, in which case nothing leaves your machine). Free and open source (MIT): https://github.com/rod-trent/Collections-Plus What's New New in 2.6.0 — open it as a floating window, and close it with Esc. The side panel's slide-in/slide-out is disruptive when you're working fullscreen, and closing it meant reaching for the X in its corner. Now ⋯ → Tools → Open in switches the toolbar icon between the docked Side panel (still the default, unchanged) and a Pop-up window — the same UI in its own small window, with no dock animation and nothing reflowing the page underneath. It reopens at the size and position you left it. And in both, Esc now closes the panel: the first press backs out of whatever's open — a menu, a dialog, a search box you're typing in — and the next one closes it. Feature-list lines — for the Description's bullet list • Side panel or floating pop-up. Open Collections Plus docked to the browser window as before, or as a small free-floating window that doesn't animate in and out or push the page around — handy in fullscreen. It remembers where you put it and how big you made it. • Esc closes the panel. No reaching for the X. Esc backs out one layer at a time — menu, dialog, then the panel itself. 2.5.0 Five requested improvements, from a user's wishlist. Recover collections straight from Edge's leftover database. If you missed exporting collections_export.csv before Edge Collections went away, your data isn't lost — Edge leaves a SQLite file behind at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\<profile>\Collections\collectionsSQLite. The new Import Edge database (SQLite)… (⋯ → Import) reads that file directly and rebuilds your collections — and unlike the CSV, it recovers each page's thumbnail and favicon too. It's a from-scratch, dependency-free SQLite reader (no WASM, nothing extra to install), so it stays true to the extension's local-first, no-build design. The file has no extension, so just browse to collectionsSQLite and pick it. Arrange folders and collections together. Folders used to sit in creation order, always below your collections. Now folders have a drag handle (hover a folder header), so you can reorder them — and folders and top-level collections share one manual order, so you can interleave them however you like: Folder A, Collection 1, Folder B, and so on. (Manual sort only; switching to Newest/A–Z still groups them.) Tidier in-collection ⋯ menu. The long flat menu inside a collection is now organized into submenus — Add, Export & share, AI, Manage — mirroring the main menu, with Open all / Archive / Move to Trash still one click away. Turn off the Reading list. Don't use read-it-later? Flip Reading list: Off (⋯ → Tools). New pages stop being marked unread and the 📖 entry point disappears, so nothing piles up waiting to be marked read. Shorter, clearer item rows. The action icons that lived in a tall column down the right side of each saved page now sit in a compact row along the bottom — which reclaims a lot of wasted height on every row. Page titles can wrap to two lines (with the full title on hover) instead of being cut off early, and Compact mode is now genuinely compact (single-line titles, smaller thumbnails). The folder collapse/expand arrow is bigger and easier to hit, too. 2.4.0 New in 2.4.0 — Fetch missing images. Imported a CSV from Edge Collections? Your links came over, but the file had no pictures — so those pages showed up blank. Now you can pull them in bulk: open a collection's ⋯ menu and click Fetch missing images, or use Fetch all missing images in settings to do every collection at once. Each saved page's preview image is fetched and stored locally, the same picture you'd get by saving the page normally. Need just one? Hover any page and click 🖼️. By default it only fills in the blanks, so your existing covers are never touched. 2.3.0 Three requested improvements for organizing — and protecting — a large library: Drag a collection straight into a folder. You no longer need the 📁 menu to file a collection. Grab a card by its handle and drop it onto a folder header to move it in; drop it onto a top-level card to pull it back out. The folder header highlights as you drag over it. The menu still works for keyboard/precision moves. Cover colors. Instead of hunting for or uploading an image, give a collection a solid-color cover from a preset palette — click 🎨 next to "Change cover…". Folders get colors too: hover a folder header and click 🎨 to tag it with an accent stripe and colored label. It's the same quick, consistent approach Edge offers for Workspaces. Colors sync and export like any other data. Automatic Chrome-account backup (survives an extension reset). After the recent Edge/Windows update that corrupted extensions and forced a reset — wiping some users' collections — Collections Plus now keeps a lightweight recovery copy of your library (titles, links, notes, tags, folders & colors) in your Chrome account's synced storage. It updates automatically in the background, needs no setup or permissions, and is restored automatically if the extension is ever reset or reinstalled and your local data is gone. It's a safety net, not a replacement for full Sync: heavy items (cached images, readable snapshots) are left out to fit Chrome's size limit, and very large libraries keep only their most-recent collections (you'll be told if so). For a complete cross-device backup, set up file Sync — and the panel now nudges you to resume Sync if a browser restart left it paused. Thanks to the users who reported all three. 2.2.0 Rename saved pages. Every saved page now has a ✎ Rename button (hover a row to reveal it, next to Move and Remove) that lets you give it a friendlier name than the raw tab title it was captured with. Saved images can be renamed too — the new name becomes their display text. The rename is stored like any other edit, so it travels with your sync and shows up on every device. Thanks to Gianpaolo for the suggestion — previously the only way to get a "nice name" was to hand-edit the sync file. For the evolution of Collections Plus, see the full CHANGELOG: https://github.com/rod-trent/Collections-Plus/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md