History Monk
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Why it's better

A better browser history. Search, Export, Delete

Your browser keeps your browsing history but gives you one search box, a list by day and no way to clear out the junk. History Monk is a browser extension that replaces that page with typo-proof search, filters you can combine, bulk delete, cleanup, analytics and exports.

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    Misspell a word and History Monk corrects it from the words in your own browsing history.

    Nine reasons it beats your browser's history page

    • It forgives a typo

      Type reatc and you still get React. When few pages match, this fuzzy search looks for the closest word in your own browsing history: one letter off for short words, two for longer ones. Your browser’s history page shows nothing.

    • Filters you can combine

      Site, date, hour, title, address, visit count and regular expressions mix together in one search, instead of one plain box. site: and after: narrow it, -site: and -title: throw things out, /regex/ does the rest.

    • It keeps up with you

      Searchable 80 ms after it opens, with up to 100,000 pages held in memory and ranked as you type. The newest 2,000 pages answer first while the rest load behind them.

    • Delete browsing history by site

      Tick a site and every page of it goes, older visits included. Tick several and confirm once. You can also clear a site’s history straight from the right-click menu on the page you are reading.

    • It finds the junk for you

      24 cleanup presets pick out duplicates, sign-in pages, search result pages, consent screens, ad servers and more. Every page is shown before anything is deleted, and protected sites are never touched.

    • Closed tabs come back

      The last 25 tabs and windows you closed, searchable and one click from open. In Chrome, the tabs open on your other synced devices sit in the same list, grouped by device.

    • You can see your habits

      A weekday-by-hour heatmap, a focus score, streaks, rising and fading sites and your top searches, all worked out on your computer. A weekly digest card sums it up.

    • Export browsing history to a file you keep

      Export any search, or a whole cleanup group, to CSV, JSON or a browsable HTML page. Copy a batch of links as addresses, titles, or both, or open them all in background tabs.

    • Nothing leaves your computer

      Search, timeline, analytics, cleanup and exports all run inside the extension. There is no account and no sync of its own, and only two network calls: a license check and a price lookup.

    In detail

    What that looks like in practice

    Nine of the things your browser’s history page can’t do, as you would meet them: a misspelled word, a search you need to narrow, a site you want gone, the clutter left behind, the pattern underneath it, the file you take with you, the tab you closed by mistake, the day you want to retrace and the way you want it all to look.

    A word you half remember is enough

    Type it wrong and the page still turns up. This is fuzzy search on your browsing history: History Monk compares what you typed against the words already in your own page titles and addresses, picks the closest real one and says which word it used, so you are never guessing why a result appeared.

    • A note above the results reads Also showing results for react hooks.
    • Exact matches stay on top. Corrected ones are added underneath them.
    • Nothing is sent away to be spell-checked. The word list is your own history.

    Narrow a search instead of scrolling it

    One search box, but it takes filters. Keep a site or throw one out, cut to a day or an hour, match the title only, or hand it a regular expression. Click a filter in the panel and it is added to what you already typed.

    • site:*.github.com covers every subdomain. -site:youtube.com drops one.
    • after:9am and before:5pm cut a day down to the hours you were working.
    • Match Title + URL, Title only or URL only, and filter by hour.

    Delete a whole site's history, with a way back out

    Filter to a site and delete every page of it at once, including the older visits that aren’t on screen. Because history deletes can’t be undone by any extension, History Monk shows you the count and makes you confirm it first.

    • The confirm button says exactly what goes: permanently delete 2,523 pages.
    • Sites on your protected list are skipped by this and every other delete.
    • The same thing works from the right-click menu on the page you are reading.

    The clutter you never meant to keep

    Most of a browsing history is noise: the same page saved four times, sign-in redirects, consent screens, page 2 of a list. Cleanup sorts that into 24 groups, shows you what is in each one and deletes only what is still ticked.

    • Addresses that differ only by tracking tags, a #fragment or a trailing slash count as one page.
    • It keeps the copy you visited most, and shows you which one it kept.
    • Review the rest 50 at a time, and untick anything you want to keep.

    Your own habits, worked out on your machine

    The same browsing history that finds a page can tell you how you browse. A focus score, a weekday-by-hour heatmap, streaks, rising and fading sites and the searches you keep repeating. None of it leaves your computer, because none of it needs to.

    • Focus is the share of your visits that went to your top 5 sites.
    • Return counts split your pages into once, 2-5, 6-20 and 21+ visits.
    • A search you run 5 times or more is flagged as worth a bookmark.

    A copy you own, in a format you can read

    Export your browsing history for whatever is on screen, whether that’s one search, a site, a date range or a cleanup group. CSV for a spreadsheet, JSON for a script, or a standalone HTML page with its own search box that works offline.

    • Five columns, UTF-8 with a byte-order mark, dates as ISO 8601 in UTC.
    • A title starting with =, +, - or @ is escaped, so it can’t run as a formula.
    • The file is built inside your browser and lands in your Downloads folder.

    The tab you closed by mistake

    Close a window with three tabs in it and your browser’s history page gives you three separate rows to hunt for. Recently closed keeps the last 25 tabs and windows together, with a search box of their own, so one click puts the page back.

    • Every tab from a closed window gets its own row, so you can take back one.
    • Type a word to filter the closed tabs by title or address.
    • In Chrome, tabs open on your other synced devices are grouped by device in the same view.

    Retrace a day, not a wall of rows

    The timeline shows one day of browsing history at a time, newest first, and breaks it where you stopped. Thirty minutes of quiet starts a new session, and the gap is labelled with how long you were away, so a Tuesday afternoon reads as what you did, not as 400 undated lines.

    • Each day’s header counts the pages, the sites, and your first and last visit.
    • A gap reads 1h 52m away, so you can see where one task ended.
    • Arrows step between days, or open the calendar and jump to any day with history.

    Dark mode, and 27 more themes

    The page you open with CtrlH every day should look the way you want. Pick System and History Monk follows your computer’s light or dark mode, or choose from 16 dark and 12 light themes, each taken from its official palette.

    • Nord, Dracula, Catppuccin, Solarized, Rosé Pine and 23 more.
    • Eight languages, five text sizes, and Default or Compact rows.
    • 12- or 24-hour time, and dates written the way you write them.

    Every feature, in one list

    Thirteen things History Monk does with the browsing history your browser already keeps. Open any one to see it working.

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    FAQ

    Questions about a better browser history

    What makes a browser history better than the built-in one?

    Being able to find a page from a word you half remember, and being able to get rid of what you don't want. History Monk adds typo-proof search, 11+ filters you can combine, bulk delete by site, 24 cleanup presets, a timeline, analytics and exports to CSV, JSON and HTML, and keeps all of it on your device.

    Is there a better history page for Chrome?

    History Monk replaces Chrome's history page, so Ctrl+H, or ⌘Y on a Mac, opens it instead of chrome://history. It does the same job and adds search that fixes typos, site and date filters, bulk delete, cleanup and exports. Remove the extension and Chrome's own page comes back.

    Can I search my browser history if I spelled the word wrong?

    Yes. When an exact search finds few pages, this fuzzy search also looks for the closest real word among the words in your own page titles and addresses, then tells you what it searched for. Words of six letters or fewer can be one letter off, longer words two, and two swapped letters count as one mistake.

    Can I delete the browsing history of one website in one go?

    Yes. Tick the site in the Sites view and every page from it is deleted, older visits included, after a confirm step. You can tick several sites at once, or clear a site from the right-click menu while you are on it.

    Can I export my browsing history to CSV or JSON?

    Yes. Any search, site, date range or cleanup group exports to CSV for a spreadsheet, JSON for a script, or a standalone HTML page with its own search box that works offline. The file is built inside your browser and saved to your Downloads folder.

    Does a history manager extension keep history longer than 90 days?

    History Monk does not. It reads the history your browser already keeps through the browser's own history API, so it goes back exactly as far as your browser does, which in Chrome is about 90 days for most pages. To keep a longer record, export what you have to CSV, JSON or HTML before it ages out.

    Will a history extension slow my browser down?

    No. History Monk has no content scripts, so it never runs inside the pages you visit. It only does work while its own history page is open.

    Does History Monk upload my browsing history?

    No. It reads your history through the browser's own history API and does everything inside the extension. There is no account and no analytics. The only requests it makes are to check a license key and look up the current price.

    Is it free?

    There is a free 7-day trial with everything unlocked, and no account to create. When the trial ends History Monk keeps working for 3 opens a day. A license removes that limit and lets you delete from Cleanup.

    Which browsers does it work in?

    Chrome, Edge and Opera, plus Firefox 140 and later. In Chrome, Edge and Opera it takes over the built-in history page. In Firefox, open it from the toolbar button or with Alt+Shift+H.

    The wise search once. History Monk remembers the rest.

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