Support

Nimbus is a notes and to-do list extension for Chrome. If something is not working, start with the fixes below — they cover almost everything people write in about. If none of them help, open an issue and I will take a look.

Get in touch

Report a bug or request a feature → GitHub Issues. Best for anything reproducible — include your Chrome version and what you did just before it happened. Browse known issues → Someone may already have reported it, with a workaround.

Common questions

My notes disappeared after I cleared browsing data

They should not have. Extension storage is not cookies or site data, so clearing browsing data leaves it untouched. Open Nimbus again and give it a moment — it merges local storage and Chrome sync on load. If it is genuinely empty, use Settings → Restore from a file with your most recent backup; restoring merges by newest-wins and never wipes what is already there.

How do I move my notes to another computer?

Sign into Chrome with the same Google account and install Nimbus. Because every note is written to chrome.storage.sync as well as local storage, it re-downloads on its own. Two caveats: sync must be turned on in Chrome, and it has to be the same extension — a locally-loaded unpacked copy has a different ID and will not see the store version's data.

Can I back up my notes manually?

Yes, and it is worth doing occasionally. Settings → Back up to a file saves a nimbus-backup-YYYY-MM-DD.json to your Downloads. That file survives everything short of a dead disk. Restore merges rather than overwrites.

A task vanished at midnight

It did not. Unfinished tasks from the last 14 days collect in the Carried over group at the top of today — expand it and either move one forward or choose Pull all in. Older than 14 days, a task stops following you around and stays on its own date, where you can still reach it with the date picker and where it still counts in Insights.

How do I open Nimbus in the side panel?

Right-click the Nimbus toolbar icon and choose to open the side panel, or pick Nimbus from Chrome's side panel menu. It shows the same notes and to-dos as the popup and stays open while you work.

Why does my focus score look low?

It is a weighted composite — 40% completion rate, 30% consistency, 15% current streak, 15% on-time rate — so it rewards finishing what you planned rather than adding a lot of tasks. Planning twenty tasks and finishing ten scores worse than planning three and finishing three. A new install is also judged only against the days since you started, not against 30 days of silence.

Does Nimbus send my notes anywhere?

No. Nimbus makes no network requests of any kind — the fonts are bundled with the extension rather than fetched, so it renders identically offline. There is no account, no server, no analytics and no tracking. The only permission it requests is storage. Your notes live in your browser and in your own Chrome sync account, and nowhere else.

Before you report a bug

Including these makes a fix much faster:

Your Chrome version — paste what chrome://version shows.
Your Nimbus version, from chrome://extensions.
What you did immediately before the problem appeared.
Whether it happens in the popup, the side panel, or the full-tab editor.

Please do not paste private note contents into an issue — a description of the shape of the data is enough.