Notebooks, notes, notes... We are so accustomed to using all the ways that, sometimes, we do not have enough of these tools in virtual reality. But there is a wonderful extension with which you will feel at ease and never forget that important thing that you would like to see again on any web page. Want to learn how to add a note on any site?
Note Anywhere extension for Google Chrome
Download for Google Chrome, this is a whole service for creating stickers on web pages, and I will tell you how you can use it. After installing the extension, a yellow extension icon will appear in the browser. Click on it to activate the extension from any site. At this point, a yellow sticker will appear on the page, the color of which you can change in the settings. In addition to color, you can change the appearance of the sticker, the size of the inscription and the font.
Clicking on "Notes Summary"- a sticker appears in which there are all links to those pages where you left notes. My notes are only on this site, so the sticker showed 3 links to my site. By clicking on "Settings"- a panel for setting the font, color and text size appears. When you change the settings, a small sticker appears that will record all the changes you make. As soon as you change the background color, the sticker will also change its color.
Now you can move the sticker to any place on the page that you consider important for yourself. You probably know that webmasters very often have to edit articles, but this is not always possible to do right away. And I want to save an idea or a task so as not to forget it. Of course, you can always use a lot of useful tools to organize your work, the same Google documents ... But, you must admit, it is much more convenient to leave a note directly on the desired page and look at a convenient time - the sticker will tell you exactly what needs to be done.
How do I?!
For example, I saw information in one video that was not reflected in the article about Immediately I thought that it would be nice to add the missing information to the article that I wrote earlier. How to make the reminder always in front of your eyes? I decided to make two stickers: one directly in the article itself, and leave the second on the blog page in order to know in which article I need to make an addition. Here's what it looks like:
Note in the article
A note on the main page of the blog
Now, looking at the site (for someone it may be the main page of the site, in my case all the articles are in the blog), the annoying yellow color of the sticker every day will remind me of what needs to be done. Imagine how many important things we lose sight of just because we forget what and where to do? And if you schedule a time on a sticker, the note will turn into a planner of our affairs. Great?!
Important! If you leave a note on a page and then close the browser, then when you open the same page again at any time, the sticker will be in the place where you left it. Check it out yourself.
And there are also articles that are necessary, but long ... And, even if I added the source to the bookmark, then after some time it is very difficult to remember and find the necessary fragment. Note Anywhere will help in this case too: leave a sticker in the right place in the article, and be sure that you will find the important part of the text without much difficulty.
The icon in the browser will tell you how many notes are on this page, and the date and time when the note was made.
Number of notes per page
Ideas for applying stickers
There are so many ideas for using this extension!!! Write your ideas in the comments, friends!
- On the main page of the site, you can leave notes with the topic or title of the future article.
- Have any of you forgotten to withdraw money from the affiliate program? The sticker will remind you!
- In social networks (if you work as an admin or lead your own group), you can decorate the entire public with stickers: as a rule, there are a lot of things to do.
- Send a letter, message.
- Etc. etc.
Pros and cons of the Note Anywhere extension
- The only negative that immediately catches your eye is the inability of the sticker to display the link text. Therefore, you will have to look for the link either in two stages, as I wrote above, or look into the extension options and find the link you need there.
- But the most useful feature of the yellow sticker is to constantly remind you of yourself. On the one hand, he is a little annoying, and on the other hand, he prompts in time. Looking for the golden mean
Leave your notes on social networks, on your websites, on the Internet, so as not to forget or lose important and interesting things, and at the right time to remember what we were looking for on this site. And then, all our started or not started cases, will still be
This note is dedicated to using the Yandex API Tableau for websites, or rather, it will be useful to site owners who want to create a special widget for their site for use in Yandex Browser and the Visual Bookmarks extension.
Of course, many have seen how the visual bookmarks of sites look in Yandex.Browser when the "New Tab" button is pressed. Visual bookmarks of some sites, such as Yandex, YouTube, GMail, look very nice, and most personal sites, and not only personal ones, look pretty poor. So that every novice webmaster can quickly and easily create a nice widget for his site and this note is published. Of course, there is documentation on the api.yandex.ru website, but many beginners are simply afraid or too lazy to read it. Following the instructions in this post, in just 4 steps, we will create the simplest Tableau API widget for our personal site. So let's go.
1. Create a picture-logo of the website widget
In any graphics editor, create an image with a maximum width of 150 pixels and a maximum height of 60 pixels, with a transparent background, and save it to a PNG file with the name ya-manifest.png . 
2. Create a Site Widget Manifest File
Don't be scared, the Widget Manifest is a simple JSON text file. So with any text editor we create such a file:
( "version": "1.0", "api_version": 1, "layout": ( "logo": "http://YOUR_DOMAIN/ya-manifest.png", "color": "#003C50", "show_title" : false ) )
and save it as ya-manifest.json . Just do not forget to enter the domain of your site instead of "YOUR_DOMAIN", and insert the color code for the background of your widget in the "color" field. You can optionally set the “show_title” field to “true” if you want the widget to display the title of your site under the picture, but if the “title” parameter, i.e. Since the name of your site is very long, you should not do this, otherwise the truncated name will be shown in the widget.
3. Upload the image-logo and manifest files to the site
Using FTP, upload both the ya-manifest.png and ya-manifest.json files you created to the root directory of your website.
4. Add a link to the manifest in the header of the main page of the site
A link to your widget's manifest should be placed in a file that displays the title of your site's pages, especially the home page, inside a tag. For example, for sites on the WordPress engine, the best solution would be to place a link in the header.php file of the current site theme. Her code will be like this:
It is important that the "href" parameter is set to the correct path to the ya-manifest.json manifest file you created. On this actually widget creation your site is complete.
Checking a widget in Yandex.Browser
Open Yandex.Browser and load the main page of your site in it. Then we click on the "New Tab" button in Yandex.Browser and enjoy your widget displayed there, which any Yandex.Browser user can place for himself in the Bookmarks Board.
The instructions for creating widgets for sites based on the Yandex API Tableau given in this note, of course, do not describe all the features and settings of widgets, so those who want to use everything to the maximum can refer to the documentation at http://api.yandex.ru /tableau/doc/.
"Eternal" programs do not exist!
I think you know that software companies use the concept of development, which involves the inclusion of a package of basic functions in the main program. The implementation of additional functions for this product is achieved by installing special plug-ins ( plug-in), extensions ( extension) and additions ( add-on). The browser is a typical representative of the line of such programs.
If we talk about the basic functionality of browsers, then it is not constant and often changes by the developer himself. At the same time, program functions that are not popular with users are removed, and the best - frequently used and useful additions - can be included in the new package. Extensions and plug-ins are developed both by the developer of this software and by third-party companies.
Why is it necessary to extend the browser functions?
So, a plug-in, extension or add-on (each program has its own terminology) for a browser is a small computer program that is connected to the browser, “works” inside it and gives it new useful features. In turn, all plugins can be divided into two groups:
- General– can be useful to any user;
- Specific– in demand by a narrow circle of users.
I know from my own experience how important it is to be aware of all the events taking place in the world and those related to my personal life. For example, I am always interested in the exchange rate, the weather forecast for the week ahead, “hot” news, which of my friends was recently on the social network, etc. I really need a program for downloading videos from youtube, a translator of pages written in a foreign language, an adviser.
Of course, any program or information can be found by a search engine and with its help go to specialized sites. Switching between their pages, we load the browser with tabs, reducing its speed and performance of the entire system, and simply losing time. A few important additions to the browser will solve all of these problems - you can get information that is useful to you without resorting to the help of a search engine.
I like to watch films on-line, I am interested in music, I communicate in social networks with people of different nationalities. By installing the plugin for downloading VKontakte music, I can download any track from user pages on this social network to my car with the click of just one button. After I installed the add-ons I needed, the necessary buttons “sit” in the bar of my browser - now everything I need is at my fingertips.
With the browser add-on, you can add functional support for any data format. So, for example, the extension Adobe Reader allows you to view the contents of a file of this format directly in the browser. I don't need to download it to my machine and open it with a special program. Office plugins work in the same way.
I just slightly opened the veil behind which the possibilities of add-ons are hidden, the functions of which are limited, except perhaps by their demand from the user and the imagination of the developers.
My rating of important browser extensions
Yandex browser, like Opera and Google Chrome, functions with the WebKit engine, so they are all somewhat similar to each other visually and functionally. Although Yandex allows the installation of plugins only from a trusted source, it does not have its own catalog, its base package contains less than 20 add-ons. However, he will not "swear" if you use extensions from the Opera and Google Chrome catalogs.
In my rating, I want to offer you the best in terms of functionality and the most useful extensions. So, we begin a brief overview of plugins that will facilitate your work on the web, open up additional options and tools for you in your browser.
Lightshot
This small application works great in the Yandex browser and in other browsers. The plugin allows you to perform a number of actions in a couple of mouse clicks:
Pleasant, simple and clear interface of the program does not require the user to have any specific skills to work with it. After pressing the button in the browser panel, the program will prompt you to select an image area:
FriGate
The plugin installs without problems in the Yandex browser, works fine in other (Chrome/Firefox/Opera) browsers. Its main function is to provide the user with uninterrupted access to the desired site. If a user is mistakenly blocked on the site, he will not lose access to it, will be able to work with it without reducing the speed of access and other inconveniences. This simple plugin easily does the following:
- Encrypts traffic;
- Performs site unblocking;
- Speeds up access to the site;
- Allows you to change the user's IP address and location.
If the site is not blocked, it will be available without a proxy, otherwise the user will be granted access through a proxy connection.
LastPass
This is a free browser program, a personal "password manager", a product of the LastPass company. The plugin functions perfectly in almost all browsers, for some browsers there is another version of this add-on - the LastPass bookmarklet. In fact, this is a local storage of usernames and passwords for all sites on which he is registered. How many of your passwords or logins can you remember? With this useful extension, you only need to remember one "master password" to access your vault.
LastPass is the best and most reliable user credentials plugin that allows you to:
- Automatically complete accounts and online forms;
- Encrypt user information;
- Create secure and import existing passwords;
- Keep confidential user data;
- Perform data synchronization between different platforms, browsers and user devices.
Simplify your networking and permanently forget all your passwords except the LastPass add-on master password.
WOT
By driving a keyword or phrase into a search engine, pressing "Enter", we see an opening list of sites offered to us. Opening any link from this list is akin to playing Minesweeper - you don't know if a useful and clean site will open or stuffed with some kind of malicious "damage" from hackers. All you have to do is go to your browser settings, select the "Add-ons" tab and enable the plugin:
The WOT add-on in your browser will mark all dubious and dangerous sites with a special marker. To the right of the resource name, you can see a security marker, by its color you can find out how safe this site is and whether it is worth opening it at all:
The WOT extension uses four colors to differentiate network resources according to their degree of danger:
- Green– the site is reliable and secure;
- Yellow- not a completely reliable resource, may contain pop-up windows, incorrect links or links to non-existent or malicious sites;
- Grey The site is not secure. It is worth considering that newly created sites are marked with such a marker. If the site does not have user ratings, then WOT puts just such a marker.
- Red- this resource is extremely dangerous for your PC (the user has one option - get out of here faster!).
Hover your mouse over the WOT circle located next to the link you are interested in and read the characteristics of this resource. You can see an example in the table below:
| Marker color | Resource characteristic |
| Green |  |
| Yellow |  |
| Grey |  |
| Red |  |
Vk Spy
This is a great addition to the browser for those who cannot imagine their existence without the VKontakte social network. With it, you can track the activity of users of this social network. This plugin will tell you which of your friends went online and when, how much time they spent online, if they wrote you a message that they never sent you for any reason.
In order to use all the functionality of this add-on, in the VK Spy settings you need to specify those users whose activity you are interested in. The program will also capture messages that you have not yet read. Simple and convenient, it fits almost all browsers, weighs only 87 kb and always keeps you up to date with events taking place on VKontakte if you are offline.
Adblock Plus
This is the best anti-ad browser plugin that works successfully on almost all browsers. Now the catalog of Yandex browser extensions, in addition to 15 "iron" add-ons, also includes this add-on, which, first of all, will save you from annoying and mind-killing advertising banners.
In addition, the program performs a whole range of useful functions, blocking:
The developers of this plugin regularly adjust and update the functional set of its rules.
There is browser developmentAdblock with a built-in extension designed to work ontablets and smartphones.
Slick RSS
And of course, I can't help but mention RSS readers. In this case, we are talking about Slick RSS. This extension belongs to the line of "news readers". Many of you may already be using the powerful and hyped Feedly RSS aggregator, unaware that there is an alternative plugin for it - Slick RSS. It is a free, flexible and lightweight RSS reader that is built into the user's browser. It checks, sorts and updates news on network resources that are of interest to the user. By the way, I already wrote a post about RSS. It talked about RSS readers installed on a computer. I advise you to take a look, maybe you will find something for yourself. We look.
Updated information and news flows to the user come from Google Chrome. The clear and simple interface of this add-on does not contain unnecessary elements, sorting and displaying news is implemented as simply as possible. Its main advantages include:
- flexibility of settings;
- minimalistic design;
- support for sorting news feeds.
If you're interested in the news, this lightweight, useful, and free extension saves you the hassle of manually checking for updates to the content of your favorite resources.
vkopt
VKOpt is the best product choice in the VKontakte social network plugin line. The product is a multifunctional application that is built into the browser and opens up a lot of hidden features of this social network. Initially, the functionality of this utility was focused only on working with audio / video files, but during its existence it has acquired solid functionality. The process of its modernization has not been completed, in the future the developer promises many new and useful functions.
The benefits of this supplement include:
- Optimization of video content dislikes;
- Display ID located in the header of the group / account, you can activate the function through extra-settings;
- Ability to download zip-archives with mini-albums to a PC;
- Easy search for the necessary information in the topics of discussion;
- Filtering news feed data by entering key queries;
- Find and upload all comments to posts, sorting them by the number of likes;
- Delete old photos without affecting albums, etc.
In my opinion, the best features of this extension are:
- The ability to quickly view, listen and download video files and audio tracks - now you can download music from a contact with one click of the mouse;
- Managing messages and a list of all friends;
- Customizing the interface of the program;
- Detailed history of statuses;
- Pop-up message boxes;
- Setting an individual sound scheme for events;
- The ability to completely delete the correspondence or messages of the selected user;
- Expanding notes, photo albums, lists of friends of videos in full format;
- Ad blocking, etc.
You can also assign a new background to unread messages, enjoy turning off the avatar cropping feature, and display your Zodiac icon on your profile. Of course, for downloading VKontakte music, this is the best - the most convenient, simple and reliable plugin.
The utility works correctly with almost all browsers, there are versions for mobile devices and tablets.
Ghostery
This very powerful and useful browser add-on will allow you to identify web bugs, spies, beacons and pixels hidden on websites and designed to monitor your activity on the web. Usually they are placed on their resource by the owners of non-commercial sites, company sites and advertising networks, providers of behavioral information interested in tracking user activity.
Do you need to be followed day and night by spam with promotional offers, reminders of yourself and other nonsense? You can easily get rid of the annoyingness of these resources if you install the Ghostery add-on in your browser. The program is able to recognize up to 500 types of bugs, including those belonging to such resources as Facebook and Google.
The program will identify all the blocks following you and provide you with a list of them - block those you do not trust and keep your surfing on the Internet at the level of complete security and privacy!
vk downloader
This is another useful and completely free software for the VKontakte social network, which allows you to easily download your favorite video or audio file from its pages. The extension will help you find the best videos/audios, individual songs and even entire albums with high quality content.
Main functions:
- Downloading video/audio files;
- Listening to multimedia in high quality;
- Music search (similar to VKontakte search);
- Ability to work in the tray;
- The number of downloads is not limited;
- Possibility to view lyrics;
- Auto search and download of music albums, etc.
With a convenient and easy-to-manage vk downloader extension, you can download music from a contact and any other multimedia file that you like. The utility is useful and designed for a wide user. It will be an excellent assistant to any user, regardless of the genre and style of music he prefers. The program is simple, reliable, free, regularly updated by the publisher - this is the best choice for downloading VKontakte music!
This is a very useful extension that takes up minimal space in the browser panel. Its small icon, with a simple mouse click on it, opens an information panel with a weather forecast, the time interval and location are user-defined. The choice of the color scheme of the panel also belongs to the user, the visualization of the plugin is available in three color schemes:
In the browser panel, the plugin sits as a small icon, click on it with the mouse and find out the weather forecast for the coming days.
This plugin is an analytical development of the LiveInternet department, most recently it was considered the most popular website analytics system. The metric from LiveInternet is easy to use, the utility subjects all data to a thorough analysis, and displays the result in a tabular or graphical representation. With this add-on, you can easily and quickly get important static data.
I note that this add-on can be attributed to specific software, since it is not used by all users. It is essential for web-masters and managers and bloggers of various network projects. True, for large projects, the utility will not be powerful enough, but everything solves the goal that you expect from a static metric. If, for example, a blogger wants to get simple statistics about his site, the potential of the LiveInternet plugin will be enough for him. This extension's counter will give it useful stats.
If you need more statistics about the site, it would be wiser to use Yandex Metrica markers - one of the best, free and available today statistical systems for network resources. If this system does not suit you, you can get more useful information from other statistical systems.
This is a great and useful utility for Google Chrome . Absolutely simple and convenient plugin will allow you to save the pages you like on the network in a special storage for easy viewing and reading.
Agree, often in search of one information on the Internet you come across interesting pages or articles that you don’t have time to read, but you really don’t want to lose them. For example, I used to make a special folder in the browser where I put links of the information I was interested in. Now I use the add-on and can safely recommend it for use.
This is a small program "sits" in the right corner of the browser panel and is "silent":
After installing the plugin, when you find an interesting article on the web, just right-click on it and select the “place in storage” option in the context menu. There is a better way - being on the page of the resource you are interested in, just click on the icon of this add-on and the necessary information will automatically go to the storage.
All pages in it are stored as lines or as reduced pages - the choice is up to the user. Then they can be shared, downloaded to a hard drive, deleted, moved, to do this, simply hover over the desired article in the repository and select the one you need from the options that appear. Agree, quite convenient.
You can download this useful extension both from the official website and in the Google Chrome store. The program is free, the installation is standard.
Finally
I really hope that the topic of this blog will be of interest to you and you will not regret the time you spent reading this article. The world of the Internet is big, the browser is the only door through which we all go on a daily network journey. What should you take with you on the road, and what should you refuse? Plugins are useful tools for those who know what and how to use them.
I would like to warn you, the reader, against the temptation to stuff your browser with all possible additions. This should not be done for two reasons. Firstly, more than half of them will remain unclaimed by you. Secondly, many plugins contain vulnerabilities and bugs that can throw your machine off balance. Therefore, I recommend installing only the applications you need and from trusted sources.
Thank you all for your attention. See you soon!
Extensions are browser add-ons that add functionality to the browser. Thanks to them, you can make the browser much more convenient, faster and better, choose important functions for yourself, or simply decorate the use of the program. Extensions allow you to work both with the browser itself, adding something new, and with the web part of sites.
For example, thanks to them, you can remove ads, add a night theme to your browser, take convenient screenshots, and perform other actions. Plugin functionality limited only by the ingenuity of the developer. And the user can only climb in the open spaces of the store and look for something necessary for himself from thousands of offers. Most of the offers are free, but have the ability to donate (an optional built-in purchase) or advertising.
How to install an extension
To do this, you need to follow a couple of simple steps, namely:
Ready. Now it is installed in Yandex.Browser and can be used. An icon will appear at the top right of the link, by clicking on which a miniature menu will pop up or some link will open, depending on what functionality the add-on has. 
Also for extension settings open the menu with add-ons and a list of third-party add-ons will appear at the very bottom. This list can customize in detail each add-on you installed or remove it.
How to install the extension on the mobile version of the Yandex browser
Smartphones also have Yandex Explorer, and there is support for almost all extensions for the computer version of the application, though in beta mode. To install the extension on the phone, it is enough go to directory, select the one you need and click "Add to Yandex.Browser". The catalog can be found at the following links:
The best plugins for Yandex.Browser
A list of the best plugins for your browser with a brief description and a download link in one of their stores.
Lightshot is the best system for creating quick screenshots immediately in the browser. Thanks to this utility, you can take a screenshot by pressing one key and crop it, add arrows and watermarks. 
frigate- improvement and acceleration access to sites, traffic encryption, opening TOR (onion) sites and EmerDNS support. 
LastPass is the most convenient password manager. Thanks to it, you can save passwords and insert them in an instant during authorization on the site. 
WOT - people's system reputation checks sites. Huge list of trusted and dangerous sites in one extension. 
Vk Spy is an application that allows you to monitor activity users in the social network Vkontakte. With one click on the extension icon, you can find out detailed statistics about a person’s activity on the VK network. 
Adblock Plus is the best ad blocker. There is both automatic ad blocking and the ability to manually remove an element of the site. AdBlock has millions of filters and hundreds of thousands of positive reviews in its arsenal. 
Slick RSS is full-fledged reader RSS, located right in the little extension window that appears when you click on the icon on the toolbar. Adding feeds is possible both individually and by importing an opml file, and even by exporting your subscriptions from Google Reader. 
Vkopt is the best function expander for vk.com. Thanks to this extension, you can make many transformations for your favorite social network. Of the main advantages, it is worth noting: downloading music, video and audio content directly from the site, blocking ads and other unnecessary elements, square avatars, comments under the photo, and so on. 
Ghostery is another ad blocker with built-in features to enhance user privacy. 
vk downloader- content uploader from Vkontakte. Download videos and music to your computer in one click from social networks. networks. 
TinEye Reverse Image Search - Search images. By clicking on the extension button, you can search for similar photos, determine their identity and find exactly the same photo on the Internet. 
Save to Pocket- save articles, photo and video content. Thanks to this extension, at the click of a button, the currently viewed article, video or photo will be saved for viewing later. Convenient analogue of notes. 
Dark Reader- dark theme for browser web parts. 
OneTab - Whenever you have too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all your tabs to the list. Saves up to 95% memory. 
Ali tools is the most convenient addition for making bargain shopping online. Helps save money on online shopping. Look at the dynamics of price changes, get detailed statistics on sellers' trust and much more with Ali Tools. 
like me- likes boost, subscribers, votes and other things for Vkontakte. 
style - custom themes for any site. Try reddit in dark style, use a minimalist facebook, change the look of google, twitter and more. 
fvd speed dial new express panel for the browser with its own unique look and new features. Replaces the main page of the browser. 
firebug - enrichment developer elements. Now the menu "Explore element" will be more convenient and functional. 
Tabsbook is an app for creating express bookmarks and adding sites to favorites. Now your main table will not be the same as before. And thanks to the widget, you can make convenient notes of sites. 
flashblock- blocking flash players to save traffic and improve page loading speed. With it, all windows of the flash player will not be played, and to view them, you will need to launch each window separately. 
Lounge destroyer is an application with which you can track prices, trade and betting information on dota2lounge.com and csgolounge.com. It is possible to change the design of sites and make other minor changes. The best widget for CS:GO and Dota 2 players. 
