Stop Bookmarking. Start Remembering

While working in Tech industry, I was always spending lot of time looking for a links/urls to various documents, dashboards, repo etc.

I always knew there was a document about that thing (“what”), but I do not know where it was. Lost in an email? slack messages? another document ?

That’s when I came across Go Links at one of my company.

It allowed me to convert some of the long, complicated links to very short, easy-to-remember links.

For example, Ican turn this long link

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YlD4iif7dodFT_CiRjkaYxqgRdg1Yf8bj0ij7oddU4w/edit?tab=t.0

into something like

go/project

This was mind blowing for me, as when I first came across such set-up. I did not know how it was implemented but something at the network level and it worked only on VPN of the company — but it was very useful

There was only one challenge

Sometimes I would even forget this short link, I would remember parts of it, but not the whole link. This happens due to the fact the not all short link will be like “go/project”. In reality it would be bit more complex like

• go/team/objectives-2024
• go/project-new-ideas

That’s when I got an Idea 💡

What if, we make these link searchable? that would be amazing!

So I started working on an idea, I thought there must be many people like me who would want to get better alternative to find their links & tabs they want to open.

More importantly not everyone can do the set-up themselves, they might not all be as technical.

Birth of the SimpleURL 🚀

So I built a Chrome extension that would allow the same functionality that I needed

• Way for me to create Short Link e.g “go/project”
• and search them afterward if I forget

No more wasting time to look for links

As I started using the extension, I realised I am being very efficient everywhere and less frustrated

• Find a link in the meeting — go/objectives, go/obj-2025
• Find 1:1 meeting notes just with name of the person — go/ronak, go/john
• Personal meeting links — go/talk-to-ronak
• Links grouped and organised in the way that my brain remembers
• e.g. team/objectives, team/roadmap, team/onboarding

Efficient searching capabilities

• Many time when I forget link to certain, I have it at the hand just by searching “team” and all relevant links about team is there.

Does this happen to you as well? What is your way to manage various link? Have you heard of Go Links? Let me know in the comments

With SimpleURL, You can organise the link, the way you would remember. Only limitation is your imagination!

What’s Next

If there is more interest in this, I have many ideas

• Just type the prefix of the URL in the browser and you can see all links with that prefix, Like folders, but no clicks needed — super fast!
• Why even type “go/” in the brower, just type “project”, still be where you want to be.

You can Try the live Demo her before installing the extension.

Thank you for reading!

Cheers!