Send from your browser

1. Open the PasserJack listing on the Chrome Web Store. Edge and Brave install from the same listing; Edge first asks you to allow extensions from other stores.
2. Choose Add to Chrome, or the button your browser shows in its place, then confirm. Your browser lists what the extension can do: read and change your data on passerjack.com, and display notifications. Nothing else it holds needs a warning.
3. Pin PasserJack from your browser’s Extensions menu so its popup is one click away.

If your organization blocks extensions from the store, use the web app and follow its browser policy. If your policy allows it, you can also install it by hand.

1. Open the extension’s popup and choose Sign in to PasserJack. That opens the extension’s settings. Keep the PasserJack address as https://passerjack.com unless you use your own deployment.
2. Choose Sign in to PasserJack there. A PasserJack consent screen opens in a browser window. Check that it names the account you want, then approve.
3. The settings page then reads Connected to your email, and the popup shows the same email. Right-click a link on an ordinary web page, choose Send to PasserJack, and confirm it arrives on your board.

The connection asks for read and write, never Vault. Read covers your whole ordinary Board; changes are limited to items this connection creates. It appears under Connected now in Agents. Disconnect in the extension’s settings removes the connection from this browser and revokes it in PasserJack. If it cannot reach PasserJack, it tells you, and you revoke the connection from Agents. Before changing account, disconnect and sign in again.

Browser sign-in works only for the store install. A hand-installed copy connects with an API key instead, as described under Install by hand.

There is one row, Send to PasserJack, whatever you right-click. It sends the most specific thing under the pointer. The order is: selected text, a video or audio, an image, a link, and then the page itself. A picture inside a link sends the picture.

• A link or page becomes a link card. A private share link, one made for named or trusted people, is not previewed, so its card keeps the address as its name.
• Selected text becomes a note named after its first line, with a link that reopens the page scrolled to the words you chose.
• An image is downloaded and attached when permission and your plan allow it. Files and images require a paid plan. A video or audio is sent as its address, or as the page when the player streams from memory.

The extension names each item that you send from the page, and notes where it came from. The upload starts at once. At the same time, a small card appears at the top right of the page. The card says Sending... until PasserJack saves the item.

While the item uploads, you can change its Title, its Note and its Tags. You can also choose a destination in Send to. Your changes are applied when the card closes. Every way of closing the card applies your changes. The page that you are on cannot read or press the card.

• Choose Done, or the close button, to apply your changes and close the card.
• Choose Undo to remove the item from your board.
• Choose Open to see the item on your board.

Send to

A destination is a service that you approve. When you choose a destination, Send to sends the item to that destination after PasserJack saves it. The first choice, Board only, keeps the item on your board and sends it to no destination. Board only is the choice until you change it.

• Send to shows only the destinations that accept what you sent. It is not there when you have no destination.
• When you have no destination, your first 3 cards show this line: “You can also send items to a destination, a service that you approve. Set one up in Settings.” Select Set one up in Settings to open Destinations.
• To add a destination, open Destinations in Settings.
• To learn what a destination does with an item, see Build a service for a destination.

Use the card

• To add a tag, type its name. Then press Enter or a comma. To remove the last tag, press Backspace in the empty tag box. Up to eight of your tags show under the box. Select one to add it.
• You can make up to three new tags each time that you send. A name that is still in the tag box when the card closes is added too.
• In Title or Note, press Enter to apply your changes and close the card. In Note, press Shift+Enter to add a line.
• Press Escape to close the card. Escape keeps your changes. In the tag box, the first Escape closes the suggestions.
• When you send with a keyboard shortcut, the card takes the focus. You can type in Title at once. Press Tab to move through the card. When you send from the right-click menu, the focus stays on the page.
• After the save, the card stays for six seconds. The count stops while you use the card: while the pointer is on it or the focus is in it. It also stops while its tab is not on screen. When the count starts again, the card closes 2.5 seconds later and applies your changes.
• If the extension cannot reach PasserJack when your changes are applied, it keeps them and tries again. If the changes cannot be saved, a notification tells you.
• When you send something that makes more than one item, the card has no Title or Note. Your tags and Send to apply to all of the items.
• If the extension stops during a large upload, the card says “This send may not have reached PasserJack.” Choose Try again to send it again. If the item did arrive, it is not saved twice.

By default, the extension adds the tag from-browser to each item that you send. You can change or remove that tag in its settings.

Open the toolbar popup on any web page to send it on purpose. It fills in the same title and note a right-click would, from your selection if you have one and from the page if not. Edit them and add tags. Then choose Send.

When you have a destination that accepts the item, Send to sends the item to that destination after PasserJack saves it. Under the form, the list named “Last sends” shows what this browser sent recently. Each item on your board has Edit and Undo. Edit changes the title, the note, the tags and Send to.

Alt+Shift+S sends your selection, or the page when nothing is selected, with the same card. Alt+Shift+V sends the same thing to your vault. On a Mac the browser shows Alt as Option. Change either at chrome://extensions/shortcuts (in Edge, edge://extensions/shortcuts).

Choose the vault before you send, never after. An item on your board reaches your other devices the moment it lands, and it can appear in a notification. There are four ways to choose the vault:

• Turn on Save to vault in the popup before you send.
• Press Alt+Shift+V.
• In the extension’s settings, turn on Show “Send to PasserJack vault” in the right-click menu, then use that row.
• In the same settings, turn on Send everything to my vault.

An item that you send to your vault is sealed on the way in. It never appears on your board. Plaintext reaches the server for that encryption. The title and note stay readable on the server. So the extension never builds them from what you are sealing, and the popup replaces a title or note that repeats it.

The extension cannot read a vault item back: its card says Saved to your vault, has no fields and only offers Open. A vault item cannot go to a destination, so Send to is not there when you send to your vault. See how vault capture works.

A browser extension cannot put PasserJack in your computer’s or phone’s share sheet. The installed PasserJack web app, the iPhone Shortcut and the iOS app can, on these platforms. Files and images need a paid plan whichever way they arrive.

Android

Yes, once the PasserJack web app is installed from Chrome.

ChromeOS

Yes, once the PasserJack web app is installed from Chrome.

Windows

Yes, when the PasserJack web app is installed from Microsoft Edge. Chrome’s web app share target is documented for ChromeOS and Android only, so install from Edge on Windows.

macOS

No. No browser adds a web app to the macOS share sheet. Use this extension or copy and paste.

Linux

No. There is no share sheet for web apps. Use this extension or copy and paste.

iPhone and iPad

Yes, through the PasserJack Shortcut, or the PasserJack iOS app if you have a TestFlight invitation. Safari and Home Screen web apps cannot be share targets.

Install the web app from Android or a desktop browser, or see iPhone setup.

The extension requires context menus, local storage, notifications, alarms and access to PasserJack. It also holds the Identity permission, which only opens a sign-in window when you press Sign in; it does not read your Chrome profile email. Alarms let the extension finish sending an item after the browser stops it in the background. When an upload or your changes still wait for PasserJack, an alarm starts the extension again to complete them. Alarms add no install warning.

Active tab and scripting let it read the page that you send from. It reads only at the moment you right-click, press a shortcut or open the popup. It reads the page’s title, site name, description and address. It also reads the alt text, caption or link text of what you clicked.

Active tab and scripting also place the card on that page. Neither adds an install warning, and the extension never reads a page in the background or any other tab. The keyboard shortcuts are not a permission.

When it needs to download an image, it can ask for access to the image’s host. If you decline, the extension sends the image address as a link instead and reports that result. The optional Let me send images from any site setting grants broader image-download access. Leave it off to decide per site. You can remove permissions from your browser’s extension settings.

If you cannot install from the store, the same extension is available as a ZIP to load unpacked. Your browser gives a hand-installed copy an extension ID of its own, different on every computer. PasserJack only trusts the store’s ID for browser sign-in. So a hand-installed copy connects with an API key instead.

1. Download the ZIP above and extract it to a folder you will keep. The extracted folder must contain manifest.json.
2. Type chrome://extensions into Chrome’s address bar. In Edge, use edge://extensions; in Brave, use brave://extensions.
3. Turn on Developer mode, choose Load unpacked, and select the extracted folder containing manifest.json.
4. Pin PasserJack from your browser’s Extensions menu so its popup is one click away.

Loading it unpacked installs it straight away, with no permission prompt. Its Details page on your browser’s extensions page lists what it can do: read and change your data on passerjack.com, and display notifications.

To connect a hand-installed copy:

1. Open PasserJack’s account menu, choose Settings, then Agents, then Connect an agent.
2. Create a dedicated key named for this browser with read and write access, then copy it. It is shown once. Read permission covers your whole ordinary Board. Leave Edit anything off to limit changes to items this key creates.
3. Open the extension’s popup and choose Sign in to PasserJack. That opens the extension’s settings. Keep the PasserJack address as https://passerjack.com unless you use your own deployment.
4. Open Advanced API key, paste your key into Replacement API key, choose Test this key, and confirm the displayed email belongs to the intended account.
5. Choose Save. The settings page then reads Connected to your email. Right-click a link on an ordinary web page, choose Send to PasserJack, and confirm it arrives on your board.

On a hand-installed copy, the Sign in to PasserJack button in the extension’s settings ends with a message. The message says that browser sign-in is not enabled for this extension. That is expected; the API key is the way to connect it.

The key is stored in this browser profile on this device, never in browser sync. Disconnect removes it from the extension; revoke the key itself from Agents when you stop using it. Check the email shown in the extension after connecting or changing keys.

If your organization disables Developer mode or unpacked extensions, use the web app and follow its browser policy.

A store install updates automatically. A hand-installed copy does not. To update it, replace the files in your extension folder with a newer download, and keep the same folder. Then choose Reload for PasserJack on your browser’s extensions page. Choose Reload even after restarting the browser: until you do, the browser can keep running the previous version’s background code. Keep the folder in place while the extension is installed.

Updating from 0.2 keeps your connection and your list of recent items. It replaces the four old right-click rows with the one Send to PasserJack row. Updating from 0.1.0 keeps your saved key. The extension checks again which account the key belongs to and clears its old list of recent items.

If an item does not send, open the popup to see the message. Sign in again, or test your key again, and check your account limits. Some browser pages and image hosts restrict access. Confirm the item arrived before retrying to avoid duplicate saves.

To uninstall, remove PasserJack from the browser’s extensions page. Disconnect first to revoke its browser connection, or revoke its dedicated API key in PasserJack.