roloNotes

What it does

You meet someone at a conference. Six months later their name comes up and you cannot remember whether you owe them an intro, what they were building, or where you met. The information was never written down anywhere you would look at the right moment.

roloNotes puts it exactly there. Open anyone's profile and a small button appears in the corner telling you, at a glance, whether you already know this person. Click it to read what you wrote, or to write something.

The panel open on a profile — notes, tags, and nothing else.

Why you might want it

• It is where you need it. Not in a separate app you have to remember to open.
• It is private by default. Nothing opens on its own, so your notes are never on screen in front of whoever is standing behind you. The closed button shows no name, no note and no tags — only whether something exists.
• Your data is yours. It lives either in Chrome's own synced storage or in a spreadsheet in your own Google Drive. There is no server in the middle, no account to create, and nothing is sent anywhere except to Google's own APIs with your own token.
• It is searchable and exportable. Tag people however you like, and take a CSV out whenever you want.

Using it

The button sits on the LinkedIn page itself, in the top-right corner, just under LinkedIn's nav bar. It is not a toolbar popup — clicking the extension's icon only opens and closes it.

Nothing opens by itself — the window only appears when you click. Write, tag and save with Cmd/Ctrl+Enter; the tag box suggests tags you have used before as you type.

Where your notes are kept

Two choices, switchable at any time from the extension's options page: Chrome's own synced storage (the default — nothing to set up, follows you to your other machines, capped at 100KB / 512 people), or a Google Sheet in your own Drive that the extension creates and manages (no size limit, a one-time Google setup). Full setup steps are in the README.

How to install it

Not on the Chrome Web Store — load it yourself in Chrome (or any Chromium-based browser: Brave, Edge…).

1. Download the project Get the ZIP and unzip it. You'll find the extension/ folder inside.
2. Open the extensions page Go to chrome://extensions in the address bar.
3. Turn on Developer mode Toggle in the top right.
4. Load the extension Click Load unpacked and select the extension/ folder.
5. That's it Open a LinkedIn profile. There is nothing to sign into and no account to create.