The Linkamatic Blog
Ideas for a better daily page.
Guides, opinions, and field notes on browser home pages, bookmarks, dashboards, and getting more from the links and tools you reach for every day.
Your RescueTime Numbers, Where You Will Actually See Them
Passive time tracking collects perfectly and gets read almost never. Putting the pulse and the shape of the day on the page you already open changes which half is broken.
GuidesStop Making Every Search Go Through One Engine
Amazon, Wikipedia, Reddit and YouTube each answer a kind of question better than general web search does. The trick is switching between them without a memory test.
GuidesWhen Your IP Address Changes, Nothing Tells You
Your provider can hand you a new address overnight and break remote access, port forwards, and allowlists. Here is what breaks, and how to notice the day it happens.
GuidesMake Chrome's New Tab Open Your Own Page
Chrome won't let you change the new tab page in Settings. Here's the extension that fixes it, and the page worth pointing it at.
GuidesHow to Set a Custom Browser Home Page (Chrome, Firefox, Edge & Safari)
A step-by-step walkthrough for making any page open when you launch your browser or open a new tab.
OpinionBrowser Bookmarks Are Broken: Why You Never Find That Link Again
Bookmark rot, tab hoarding, and folder sprawl — why the default tools fail and what actually works instead.
ComparisonStart Page vs. New Tab Extension vs. Bookmark Manager: What Actually Sticks
Three ways to wrangle your links, the trade-offs of each, and how to pick the one you will keep using.
Lists12 Widgets Worth Putting on Your Daily Dashboard
From clocks and weather to countdowns and focus timers — the small tools that make a start page earn its keep.
ProductivityBuild a Focus Dashboard: A Minimal Setup for Deep Work
A calm, distraction-light page built around a timer, a notepad, and only the links that matter.
ProductivityRSS Isn't Dead: How to Build a Personal News Feed in 2026
Skip the algorithm. Assemble a fast, ad-light reading feed you actually control.
CollaborationA Shared Start Page for Your Team: One Link, Everyone Aligned
Give a group one living page of shared links and tools — and keep everyone pointed the same direction.
DesignDark Mode, Custom Fonts, and Why Your Daily Page Should Feel Like Yours
Personalization is not fluff — a page that looks like yours is a page you will actually open.