Health
What we got wrong about sleep
By A. Okonkwo · 11 min read
For twenty years the advice was the same: eight hours, in one block, in a cold dark room. It was good advice. It was also, for a great many people, impossible.
Ask ChatGPT without leaving the page.
One text box, on top of whatever you are reading. Type a message, choose where it goes, then press Enter. It arrives in that service’s own chat, already sent, on the account you already use.
One composer
Pick one and watch. Same box, same shortcuts, wearing whichever service you are about to send to.
How it works
Prompts
Supercharge the work you repeat with prompts you wrote yourself, ready in whichever service you happen to be sending to.
And pin each one where it earns its place: on GitHub, in your inbox, on the model you trust with it.
Tabs
Everything you have open is fair game. Point at a tab and it comes along with the question.
Point at four, and the answer has read all four. Nothing copied, pasted, or trimmed down to fit.
New tab
Open a tab and ask. Yesterday’s conversation is sitting right there when you want to pick it up, and your search engine is still one key away for the times you actually wanted a link.
Four surfaces
Some answers you read once and forget. Others you keep open all afternoon. Both should not live in the same place.
The answer arrives on top of the thing it is about. Your place in the article does not move, and neither does the article.
A blank tab is already a place you are passing through, so it hands you straight over. Every service works here, including the two that are fussy everywhere else.
For the answer you are working from rather than reading once. Switch tabs all you like; it stays where you put it.
Off on the second monitor, out of the way of everything else. Where Grok and Perplexity always land, and where anything else can if you want it there.
Context
The hard part of a good question is never the question. It is everything you have to drag along with it.
Headings, lists and links intact. The nav, the cookie banner and the newsletter box left behind.
Not describe the chart. Draw a box around it and send the picture.
The number that predicted how people felt was not how long they slept.
ExplainRewriteAskA sentence you do not follow, a paragraph that needs rewriting. The three things you were about to do with it are right there.
The shortcut works everywhere. Yesterday is one click back. It goes dark when your system does. And it already knows who you usually ask.
Privacy
It goes straight from your browser to the service you picked, signed in as you already are. We never see it, and we could not if we wanted to: there is nothing of ours in between.
Nothing in the middle to read it, keep it, or lose it.
Preferences, saved prompts and your last six chats are stored in your browser, and Settings clears them. Optional permissions ship switched off. The extension has no build step and fetches no code at runtime, so what Chrome installs is all there is. Privacy policy · Every permission, explained.
Install
One click from the Chrome Web Store. No API keys, nothing to sign up for, and no settings to work through before it does something useful.
Chrome asks you to confirm the permissions once, and that is the install. There is no account step and nothing to configure.
Click the puzzle-piece icon beside the address bar and pin AnyChat, so it is one click away from wherever you are.
Ctrl E on Windows and Linux. The composer opens on top of whatever you are reading.
AnyChat sends through the sessions already in your browser. Sign in to whichever services you use, as normal, and you are done.
Requires Chrome 135 or newer. Edge, Brave, Arc and the other Chromium browsers work too, at that version or above.
Questions
Not to AnyChat. It has no subscription, no API keys and nothing to sign up for. It uses the accounts you already have, so whatever you get on a service’s free tier is what you get here, and whatever you pay for there you keep.
No. It has no search engine of its own. A search goes to whichever engine you have already set in Chrome, and if you change that, the box follows it. There is no setting to find here.
You sign in yourself, in your own browser. Nothing bypasses authentication, rate limits, safety systems or paid tiers. The message is typed into the service’s own composer and submitted, so everything that applies to anything typed there applies to this.
Your message, and page text or a screenshot if you attached one. That is the whole list. There is no tracking of any kind, and your conversations stay in your account with the service, where they already were.
Most of it is the list of chat services, because the extension has to be able to type into them. One line asks to change how those same sites respond, and that is there for a single reason: to let a chat show inside the side panel, which those sites otherwise refuse. It applies to them and nothing else, and visiting them normally is unaffected. Reading your open tabs and acting on selected text are both optional, and both ship switched off.
One box for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and the rest, on your own accounts. Two minutes to install, and nothing to sign up for.