How to Auto-Open Specific URLs Every Morning When You Start Chrome

If you open the same handful of sites every morning, Chrome can do it for you. There are three levels: open your sites whenever Chrome starts, start Chrome by itself when you sign in to your computer, or open the sites at a set time each day.

Open the same pages every time Chrome starts

1. Open Settings → On startup (or go to chrome://settings/onStartup).
2. Choose Open a specific page or set of pages.
3. Click Add a new page for each site, or open your morning sites in tabs first and click Use current pages.

From now on, every time Chrome starts, those pages open in tabs. The other choice, Continue where you left off, reopens whatever was open when you last closed Chrome, including pinned tabs. That suits you better if your set of sites changes from day to day.

Start Chrome automatically when you sign in

• Windows: press Win + R, type shell:startup and press Enter. Copy a Chrome shortcut into the folder that opens. Chrome now starts when you sign in, and opens your startup pages.
• Mac: open System Settings → General → Login Items and add Google Chrome under "Open at Login".

Open specific sites at a set time each morning

If you want the pages to open at, say, 8:30 even if Chrome is already running, use your computer's scheduler. On Windows:

1. Open Task Scheduler and choose Create Basic Task.
2. Set the trigger to Daily and pick the time.
3. For the action, choose Start a program. Browse to chrome.exe (usually in C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application) and put the addresses in Add arguments, separated by spaces, for example https://mail.google.com https://calendar.google.com.

If Chrome is already open, the pages open as new tabs in it. On a Mac, the same can be done with a cron job or a launchd task that runs open -a "Google Chrome" https://example.com at the time you choose.

Other quick ways to get to your daily sites

• A bookmark folder. Put your morning sites in one folder on the bookmarks bar, then right-click it and choose Open all. One click, any time.
• New Tab shortcuts. On the New Tab page, click Customize Chrome and switch the shortcuts to My shortcuts, so the tiles are the sites you pick, not just the ones you visit most.
• One tab, one site at a time. If you'd rather look at your sites one after another, for example on a second monitor, AutoBrowser plays a bookmark folder in a single tab, moving to the next site after the number of seconds you set.

To keep sign-ins from getting in the way, tick "Keep me signed in" on each site the first time. Otherwise your morning tabs may open on login pages.