Is it safe to let it use my browser?

You watch every step as it happens, and you can stop it at any moment with one click. The instant you use the page yourself, it pauses and waits for you.

Do I need to know anything technical?

No. You describe what you want in plain words — “fill this form”, “compare these three pages” — and it figures out the rest.

What does the free plan include?

Bronze gives you the browser sidekick itself — the agent on your current tab, web search, projects, chats, notes and sync between the extension and the web app — running on the Standard AI, with one usage allowance per 5-hour window. No card required. Four things are not in Bronze: the Smarter AI, downloadable file deliverables, Guidelines, and Libraries. Those start at Silver.

It is your own documents, kept where your AI can read them. Upload contracts, specs, research, spreadsheets or notes; StickyFriend reads each file, indexes it, and from then on any chat you point at that library can search it and quote from it, telling you which file the answer came from. Silver gets 3 libraries, Gold 15, Diamond 50; Bronze has no access.

Can it read scanned documents and images? (OCR)

On Gold and Diamond, yes — those plans run OCR, so scanned PDFs, photographs of pages and plain images are read as well as ordinary files. Slide decks never needed OCR: a .pptx is read as text on every library plan. Silver is text extraction only and refuses a file with no text layer rather than adding an empty document.

What if I hit the usage limit?

You wait for the reset. The window is fixed, not rolling: it starts the moment you first use the Standard AI and runs for five hours, and the whole allowance comes back at once when it ends. Paid plans multiply the size of the allowance rather than shortening the window.

How do golden credits actually work?

Golden credits are the currency for the Smarter AI, and they are not one-per-reply — a credit tracks the work in the reply. Plan credits arrive monthly with a small daily top-up and roll over up to two months' worth. Credits bought in a pack sit on top, do not expire and are spent only after plan credits run out.

Do the pricier plans answer faster?

On the Standard AI, no — every plan is answered by the same self-hosted model and there is no fast lane. On the Smarter AI, Gold and Diamond send their requests to the provider flagged priority while Silver sends them as standard. Gold and Diamond share that same queue.

Can I use it away from my browser?

Yes — the web app has all your same conversations and screenshots, readable from anywhere. Actions on live pages happen in the browser, and it will point you there when needed.

Brainstorming In Your Browser

July 31, 2026

The problem is not the ideas, it is the residue

A brainstorm produces three things at once: half-formed ideas, a trail of pages you looked at, and — if you are lucky — a decision. The ideas end up in a chat window, the pages end up as twenty-six tabs, and the decision ends up in your head. A week later you have all three and can reconstruct none of them.

StickyFriend’s answer is not a better note-taking app. It is that the notebook, the chat and the tabs are the same workspace, and that workspace is the browser you were already using.

Step one: give the idea a project, and let it take the window

A project in StickyFriend binds to a Chrome window. Open the project, you get its window; the tabs open in it belong to that piece of work and to nothing else. This sounds administrative and turns out to be the whole trick — “switch to the other thing I am working on” stops meaning “close forty tabs first”.

Two consequences worth knowing before you start:

The extension records the open tabs and the pages you visit in that window — titles and URLs — onto the project. That is how reopen my tabs can bring the whole research session back later in a fresh window. It only happens in a window bound to a project.
Each project gets a real folder in Chrome’s own bookmark manager. The links it collects are yours: they still work with the extension uninstalled, and deleting a project unlinks the folder without deleting a single bookmark inside it.

Step two: write in the notebook, not in the chat

A chat is a transcript. It is a terrible place to keep a conclusion, because the conclusion is buried at message forty-one between two false starts.

The notebook is a writing surface that you and the AI both write into. You can edit what it wrote — that is the point, it is not a read-only log. Practically:

Group entries by topic. One topic per strand of the brainstorm — “pricing objections”, “what the competitor actually does”, “things we ruled out” — and the ruled-out pile stops being re-litigated every fortnight.
Pin what survived and archive the rest. Archiving is not deleting; it is admitting an idea did not make the cut while keeping the reasoning.
An entry can be global or scoped to one project. Scope the working notes; leave the durable principles global so they follow you into ordinary chats.
Give an entry a date and it appears on the project calendar alongside your todos and plan bars. Add a time and it becomes an appointment; leave the time off and it sits there as all-day. No date and it stays an ordinary note.

Step three: quote the turn that actually mattered

Brainstorming with an AI produces a lot of text, and roughly one paragraph in ten is the one you want to build on. Rather than copy-paste it into a fresh message and lose the context, you can quote a specific turn and reply to it. The exchange stays anchored: the reply is visibly about that paragraph, not about the general vicinity of the conversation.

This is the small feature that changes how a long brainstorm reads a week later. A transcript with quoted turns has structure; a transcript without them is a wall.

A working rhythm that holds up

Think in the chat. Decide in the notebook. Quote the turn that produced the decision, so the notebook entry points back at its own reasoning. Then close the chat without a shred of guilt — you kept the part that mattered.

Step four: look at the shape, not the scroll

Every project builds a mindmap of its own ideas — nodes, and the links between them. It exists for one job: to answer “what is this project actually about now?” without scrolling chat history. When a brainstorm has genuinely branched, the map shows you the branch you have been ignoring.

Step five: when it stops being a brainstorm

At some point the thinking is done and the work begins. The same project already holds the pieces:

Todos with details, dates, tags and colours — written by you, or filled in by the AI as it works through something with you.
Plan bars with a label, a date range, a colour and a completion percentage, laid out as a gantt so the shape of the work is visible at a glance.
One calendar that unions everything dated in the project: todos with dates, plan bars, dated notebook entries, and appointments that happen at an actual time of day.

Nothing has to be migrated to a different tool, because nothing left the project.

What this does not do

Being straight about the edges, because finding them yourself after paying is worse:

A project belongs to exactly one account today. You cannot hand one to a colleague or work in one together.
StickyFriend is a Chrome Manifest V3 extension. Other browsers are wanted, not written.
There is no whole-project export yet. What you can do is read everything from the web app on any device, since the extension and the web app share the same conversations, notes and screenshots.

If one of those is load-bearing for you, check the roadmap before you buy, not after.