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Meet the Aboard Extension

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Data comes in, gets cleaned up, and becomes actionable.

By Paul Ford ·

Okay you did it. You signed up. Thank you! Aboard is a pretty deep platform with a lot of powers, but if there’s one thing that makes it REALLY powerful, it’s the browser extension.

The Aboard Browser Extension (Chrome and Edge; Safari and Firefox soon) is like a rocket-powered bookmarking engine. Click on it when you’re browsing, and it studies the page and extracts data—for example, if you’re looking at a product page it extracts the price. Click again to save the link as a Card into a Stack. 

Try it on a video, product, or article

The extension knows what things are and will extract data from any page.

Try it on a YouTube video. Or try it on a news article. Or try an Amazon product—or any product from any web store. It will pull out the price.

Then, back in Aboard you can automatically use a table view to compare prices and sort products by price from across tons of online stores. Data comes in, gets cleaned up, and becomes actionable.

Pin it, please

Please pin the extension so it’s always there on any web page. It makes using Aboard much easier.

Screenshot of the pinning feature on Chrome extensions

What about privacy?

For the extension to work it needs to know which web pages you’re looking at. And sometimes that requires us to talk back to our own servers to do the work and speed things up.

We will always do our best to err on the side of privacy and we do not sell your personal data or information! Check out our simple-to-read privacy statement, and please email privacy@aboard.com with any questions at all.

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Written by Paul Ford

One of the world’s leading technology thinkers, Paul Ford has written about the way that software works for dozens of publications like Wired, Businessweek, and the New York Times. He co-founded Aboard with Rich Ziade.

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