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Tabs Outliner Overview

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A demonstration of Tabs Outliner, a Chrome extension that organizes windows and tabs into a nestable tree structure.

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What people say. Engineers recommend it as an effective tool for managing massive numbers of browser tabs and reducing memory usage.

toddkaufmannon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Tabvention – Manage Your Browser Tab Addiction”

Haven't tried, but I think I would find this intrusive and annoying--I'd be mentally keeping track of how many tabs I had open and then checking my bookmarks if I went over. Not for me, but maybe useful for some. I've tried session managers too, and those are okay for restoring state when things crash. THE GREATEST THING is Tabs Outliner (chrome only). This displays all your windows and tabs as a tree and lets you rearrange, easily close and restore windows, selectively restore, add notes to tabs, etc. A slight learning curve, but worth it for the power surfer. Demo of some of the features in this video: link to this video

ohaalon Hacker News • Recommends

On ““Why does Chrome not have a good tab management system built in?””

Tabs Outliner1 is great for this. It's lacking sync (an extra top layer in the tree for each device would make sense), but other than that, it is fantastic, and has really reduced my memory usage back to normal levels. It allows you to suspend entire windows, and quickly browse all tabs. Allows for unlimited* levels of named trees/notes/windows/tabs. It does however NOT save the state of the page, only the URL. When the Chrome Sidebar API2 is implemented, I'm sure it will only get better, as the need for an extra window should no longer be necessary. Here's a video overview of its features: link to this video * I haven't reached the maximum yet... 1: link 2: link

Gambit89on Hacker News • Recommends

On “The Inventor of the Browser Tab”

…ing on the tab bar at the same time - you can also do this reordering while the tab isn't even open! This is good for a while, but for me when I have thousands, it's lacking in some retrieval sense: I guess I want to query for just these tabs that have connections, and cross-reference research annotations on these sets of connections. link Demo: link to this video…