Save-time calculator
How much time does a second bookmark bar actually give back?
Not much, per link. That is the point. The saving is one small thing — not re-finding a link you had already saved — repeated until it adds up. Put your own numbers in below and the arithmetic is done in front of you, with nothing hidden.
Your normal week
Two questions. Both answers are yours to guess — this page has no way to measure them, and does not try to.
Count only the ones you had already bookmarked and still went looking for — retyping a search, scrolling history, or starting from a site's homepage.
Five for a standard working week. Move it if your browser days do not look like that.
A week
10 min (est.)A month
43 min (est.)A year
8h 40m (est.)12 links × 5 days × 10 seconds = 10 min a week. A month is that × 4.33 (52 weeks ÷ 12), a year is that × 52. That is the whole formula.
Where the 10 seconds comes from
Ten seconds is the value the extension itself uses, and it is a deliberate under-claim. Clicking a link that is already sitting on a visible bar takes about a second. What it replaces — opening a new tab, retyping half a search, scanning results or history, or navigating in from a site's front page — comfortably costs more than ten seconds in the common case, and much more when the link is buried in a bookmark folder you have to remember the name of.
We claim ten anyway. A round, conservative number that is easy to check against your own experience is worth more than a precise-looking one nobody can verify. If the figures above feel low to you, that is the assumption doing its job.
This is a model, not a measurement
Everything on this page is multiplication over a number you guessed. It cannot know your browsing, and nothing you type here is sent anywhere or stored — the calculation runs in your browser and leaves with the tab.
If you want the version based on what you actually did rather than what you estimated, the extension keeps it for you. Open Settings → Dashboard and the "Time saved" tile applies the same ten seconds to your real count of links opened from the bar. Those counters are stored locally on your machine, in line with the no-telemetry policy — they never leave the device, and we never see them.
Either way it is an estimate, and both surfaces say so. The number to trust is the direction, not the decimal.
What the saved seconds are actually made of
- Not re-finding what you already saved. The bar is visible on the page you are already on, so the link is one click away instead of a search away.
- Not switching context to go looking. The detour into a new tab, the history list, or the bookmark manager is the part that costs more than the click.
- Not rebuilding a setup. Bars switch by site or by profile, so the right set of links is already the one on screen.
None of that is dramatic on any single occasion. Multiply it by a working year and it stops being nothing — which is all this calculator is here to show.
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