Reway

At a glance

• Product: Cross-device bookmark library and browser capture tool
• For: Researchers, designers, developers, and people working across many tabs
• Surfaces: Next.js web dashboard and Chrome Manifest V3 extension
• Core job: Capture references quickly, then make them easy to recognise and retrieve

The problem

People save useful pages constantly, but a browser's bookmarks bar treats every save as a final resting place, not a working library. The collection grows, and it gets harder to trust, scan, or revisit. Reway started from a different premise: a saved page should stay part of the work it came from, quick to capture and easy to find again.

Getting there meant solving several things at once. Capture couldn't interrupt browsing. Organizing a real library had to stay lightweight. Retrieval had to work from a half-remembered title or topic. And the web dashboard and the browser extension had to feel like one private product, not two.

The solution

Reway captures first and enriches in the background: a save completes instantly, and titles, descriptions, favicons, images, duplicate handling, and live updates follow without holding up the moment. The dashboard is the home for the library, with list, card, icon, and folder-board views, search, notes, todos, groups, and visit-aware ranking alongside saved references. The Chrome extension is the capture surface, built to save a page, a batch of links, or a whole tab session without breaking focus.

What we delivered

• A private dashboard for browsing, searching, grouping, reordering, and managing bookmarks
• Multiple ways to scan a library: list, cards, icons, and a folder-board view
• A keyboard-first command bar for frequent actions
• A Chrome extension for saving pages, link batches, and tab sessions, plus optional X bookmark capture
• A floating quick-access surface for finding saved material and opening bookmark groups while browsing
• Dashboard-to-extension group opening and cached extension reads
• Background metadata enrichment that never delays a save
• Private, user-scoped data handling with URL normalisation, duplicate checks, and live updates
• Validated cookie-backed dashboard preferences

Product decisions

Saving must not interrupt research, so visible capture is separate from metadata enrichment. Retrieval needs more than folders, so the library combines text search, visual context, flexible views, groups, notes, todos, and usage signals. The extension owns browser-context capture and quick access; the dashboard owns the long-term library. Shared server routes connect them without duplicating persistence rules.

Outcome

Reway gives people a private working library: capture references in the browser, return to them across devices, organise them in ways that fit the work, and find saved material again with less friction.

Technology

Next.js 16, React 19, and TypeScript power the application. Tailwind CSS 4, shadcn/ui, Hugeicons, and Motion shape the interface. Supabase and PostgreSQL provide data and authentication. The Chrome Manifest V3 extension uses vanilla JavaScript and esbuild; dnd-kit, React Hook Form, Zod, pnpm, oxlint, and oxfmt support interaction and tooling.