Sandra, I have a web page I created for myself (html - lots of links in three columns and I put my weather app up at the top). It lives in a file on the computer and when I open the browser it is pointed to that as the home page. I also have a second tab open with https://udm14.com/ loaded. To make this happen every time you open the browser you need to go to the browser settings and (in Chrome, at any rate) click on "show home button" (so I can bring up my custom page when I need it) and (they moved things around recently) navigate to "On Startup" where you can go to "Open a specific page or set of pages" and "use current pages."

Then the easy search bar is there and open so I click on that tab for a search, I don't need to remember to do anything else. Sometimes I have a lot of tabs open and need to find something without disturbing all of those tabs. My solution (in Chrome or Firefox) is to click on the "+" to open a new tab and drag it away from the cluster I was using. Then I use my home button to bring up my page. Sometimes you have to be careful in clicking a new link - it wants to open the page over a previous page on the other cluster. Doesn't happen often, but it does happen.

I got the idea for the custom page from years ago when Google had the great idea to let people use a feature of theirs to create their personalized landing page. I used it heavily and was heartbroken when they discontinued the feature. So I built my own. I have a couple of html editors, but most often just open the ancient version of MS Front Page 2003 (I still have that disk!) and make the changes and save in the original file location and as a link on my desktop. Any time I make a change (at least once a month something comes or goes on my list) I save it to the original location and to my desktop. I've also emailed the file (it's a text file) to myself to load on my laptop. It's kind of clunky on the tablet and doesn't really work on the phone.

I use Windows and in their tools they have Sticky Notes and I have one with a bunch of squibs to use for editing in various places (including here). You can create lots of notes if you wish; I have several but the main one that opens when I turn on the computer is the one mentioned, and on it I have "&udm=14" (no quotes) so if I forget to open the dedicated search to avoid AI I can copy and paste that onto the end of my search string and refresh it (F5).