Right-click menu

TabOasis adds a single item to Chrome’s right-click menu: Save to TabOasis. It appears when you right-click a page, and when you right-click a link.

What it actually does

It does not save anything on its own. It captures the URL and a title, then opens the popup on the Quick Add tab with both fields already filled in. You still choose the column and press Add Bookmark.

That is deliberate — a bookmark with no column would have nowhere to live — but it does mean a right-click alone leaves nothing behind. If you dismiss the popup without pressing Add, the capture is discarded.

When the popup does not appear

Chrome will not always let an extension open its popup. When that happens you get a notification instead:

“page title” saved — click the TabOasis icon to finish adding it.

Click the icon and the Quick Add tab opens with the capture still waiting.

The capture is kept for 15 minutes. After that it is ignored, so a page you right-clicked yesterday cannot ambush the form the next time you open the popup. Only one capture is held at a time; a second right-click replaces the first.

On a link, the title comes from the page you are on

Right-clicking a link captures that link’s URL — but the title captured is the title of the page you are looking at, not the link’s own text. So right-clicking a link to an article from a search results page prefills the article’s URL with the search page’s title.

The title box is editable and sits right there in the form. Read it before you press Add.

If the page has no title at all, the capture falls back to Untitled.

What it captures

The URL and the title, nothing else. Page contents are never read: the content script TabOasis injects exists only to draw the Spotlight overlay and reads nothing from the page it runs on. See What we store and why.