roloNotes

What it does

The note you needed, where you needed it

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

Built around two ideas: be there, and stay private

• 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, then search every name, note and tag at once — from the panel, or from a full page listing everyone you have written about. Take the lot out as CSV or JSON whenever you want.

• It notices when people move

  Open somebody's profile and roloNotes quietly checks whether their photo or employer has changed, and tells you when it has.

Using it

One button, two states

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

Chrome's storage, or a spreadsheet you own

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, and you can open and edit it by hand).

Connecting the sheet is one button: Chrome asks whether to let roloNotes reach Google, Google asks whether to let it create the file, and that is the whole setup. Switching between the two copies your notes across and deletes nothing.

How to install it

One click, then it just works

From the Chrome Web Store, in Chrome or any Chromium-based browser (Brave, Edge, Arc…). There is nothing to sign into and no account to create — it works the moment it is installed.