I made one like this for myself. Love this. Mine has two panels. One for notes and the left side is just a tall menu, big buttons of my favorite sites/tools - saves a few clicks. Custom newtab is underrated.

Awesome! I'd love to see it.

One of my goals was to make the code "hackable", so that you can take this as a starting point, then extend and personalize it, to make it "yours".

> Custom newtab is underrated

Exactly. I'm surprised myself how handy this turned out :)