Turn Chrome Into a Keyboard‑Powered Productivity Hub with Omni

Overview

Omni is an open‑source Chrome extension that serves as a keyboard‑shortcut manager, providing more than 50 productivity‑enhancing features such as tab switching, bookmark handling, history search, and integrations with Notion, Figma, Docs, Asana, and other tools.

Key Features

🗄 Switch, open, close, and search tabs

📚 Browse and manage personal bookmarks

🔍 Quickly search browsing history

⚡️ Over 50 productivity‑boosting actions

🔮 Special commands for filtering and executing additional operations

🧩 Integrations with Notion, Figma, Docs, Asana

⌨️ Shortcuts for mute, pin, bookmark, etc.

⚙️ Advanced settings to solve browsing issues

🌙 Dark mode support

Installation

Online Installation

The simplest method: visit the Chrome Web Store URL

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/omni/mapjgeachilmcbbokkgcbgpbakaaeehi

and click “Add to Chrome”.

Offline Installation

Download or clone the project from GitHub: https://github.com/alyssaxuu/omni.

Open Chrome, go to chrome://extensions/, and enable Developer Mode.

Drag the project’s src folder onto the extensions page.

The Omni extension is now installed locally.

Usage

After installation, press ⌘+K (Ctrl+K on Windows) to open Omni’s command palette. Type commands such as:

/tabs : search tabs

/bookmarks : search bookmarks

/history : search browsing history

/actions : list all available actions

/remove : delete a bookmark or close a tab

Typing /a reveals over 50 custom actions, e.g., “Create a whiteboard”, which opens the webwhiteboard site for quick sketching.

Customization

The source code is hosted on GitHub ( https://github.com/alyssaxuu/omni). To add new actions, edit src/background.js and insert a new object into the actions array (see lines 15‑73). After saving, reload the extension on the chrome://extensions/ page.

Author & Adoption

The plugin was created by Alyssa, a San‑Francisco developer with 3 k+ GitHub followers, recognized by Maker Mag as a top female creator in 2018 and named Product Hunt’s annual creator. Since its open‑source release on 2022‑01‑11, Omni has quickly amassed over 1 k stars.