Keep pages, selections, and snips from Chrome — without another tab

The worst time to open a moodboard app is the moment you found something. A new tab, a paste, a title, a tag — by then the original page has scrolled, the video has moved on, or you’ve talked yourself out of saving “just a button.”

Capture has to live in the browser you already use. That’s why keep.surf ships a Chrome extension: right-click, shortcut, or snip. The library is the destination. The tab stays the context.

Three ways to keep

1. Keep a page

Right-click anywhere, or use the keep-page shortcut. Title, link, and a preview land in your library. Use this when the whole composition is the point — a homepage, an article, a product marketing page.

2. Keep a selection

Highlight text, an image, or a video, then Keep. You get the exact thing, not a vague memory of “something on that site.” Quotes, type lockups, and product stills belong here.

3. Keep an area

Snip a rectangle, crop, annotate, save. Source URL comes along. This is the replacement for the system screenshot: same speed, plus context and markup. Use it for spacing, UI chrome, and anything that isn’t a clean DOM selection.

Shortcuts worth learning

Defaults are Alt+Shift+K to keep the page and Alt+Shift+S to snip an area. Remap them in chrome://extensions/shortcuts if they collide with something you already use. The point is a muscle memory faster than “I’ll come back to this tab.”

What the extension does not do

It does not run on every page in the background. It does not build a browsing history. keep.surf only receives what you choose to keep — URL, title, selection, or screenshot — when you take an action. That’s both a privacy stance and a product stance: a library of intention, not a surveillance feed of everywhere you went.

Details live in the privacy policy and on the extension page. Install from the Chrome Web Store, sign in once, and keep as you surf.

Install once. Keep forever.

A workflow that actually sticks

1. Install the extension and sign in.
2. For a week, save anything you’d have screenshotted.
3. Add a note on the saves you know you’ll hunt for later.
4. Open your library when a project starts — search your own history instead of the open web first.

The web is still the best museum. It just needed a cloakroom that remembers what you handed it.