nutabu Is a New Tab That Tells a Story

I've been building nutabu-tab — a browser extension that replaces your new tab page with a daily artifact from a serialized fiction I'm producing called "Woowoo: The Bridge."

The premise: two strangers, Margit and Zoltan, are independently making their way toward the Szechenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest. They're writing letters, postcards, diary entries, SMS threads. Neither knows about the other. The audience — you, opening a new tab — watches both journeys and starts to see the convergence before either character does.

The tab is the delivery mechanism. Every day, a new artifact surfaces. Sometimes it's a weathered letter rendered with paper texture and aging effects. Sometimes it's an SMS thread. A postcard. A puzzle embedded in a map. The renderer handles each format differently — LetterArtifact, PostcardArtifact, SmsArtifact — all wrapped in a shell that gives them physical weight.

What I like about this as a format is that the new tab is already a liminal space. You're not doing anything yet. You opened a tab and paused. That's exactly when you want someone to hand you a letter from a stranger on a train.

The schedule drives the whole thing — 42 days, one artifact per day, timed to a season timeline. The extension pulls the current day, finds the artifact, and renders it. No feed. No scroll. Just today's thing.

It's small and specific and I think that's right.