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Finds them on its own
Install a Sidecar extension and it appears in the list by itself. Nothing to add, nothing to pair, no key to paste.
Sidecar / The panel
One icon. All of them.
Eight extensions used to mean eight icons fighting over the same strip of toolbar. Now there is one. Click it and every Sidecar tool you have installed is listed, with a switch beside each, and a line telling you what it is doing on the page you are already looking at.
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Attachment ReminderWatching compose
Clean CopyRight-click a link
Timezone PeekWatching selections
Draft RescueSaving as you type
Link Destination CheckChecking links
Draft Rot TrackerWatching drafts
Cancel-By ReminderReading renewal dates
Meeting Link SurfacerWatching for calls
What it does, and what it deliberately does not.
The panel is a light switch, not a control room. There is no settings page behind it.
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Switches take effect at once
Turning one off stops it in every tab already open. No reload, no restart.
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Tells you what is live here
Each row says what that tool is doing on the current page, or which site it waits for. A tool that is idle says so instead of pretending.
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Pause one site, keep the rest
One switch pauses everything on the site in front of you and leaves the rest of the web alone. Useful for the one app that does not get along with anything.
Install it the same way as the rest.
The panel is optional. Every extension works without it.
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Download the .zip and unzip it wherever you keep things.
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Open chrome://extensions in your browser.
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Switch on Developer mode, top right of that page.
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Click Load unpacked and pick the unzipped folder.
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Reload the page you want it on. That is the whole setup.