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Close tabs without the guilt
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Shelf - Close tabs without the guilt

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Shelf is a Chrome extension that helps you process open tabs instead of letting them pile up. It shows one tab at a time and gives you four calm decisions: Done, Snooze, Save, or Dismiss. Snoozed tabs quietly reopen later; saved tabs live in one clean list. No AI, no accounts, no sync - just a fast, satisfying way to turn 60 open tabs into zero without the fear of losing something important.

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I built Shelf because I kept hitting 60+ open tabs and every "tab manager" made saving easier — but never made *closing* easier. Closing always felt like losing something. Shelf flips that. It shows your tabs one at a time and gives you four fast decisions: • Done — you're finished with it, close it • Snooze — not now, resurface it tomorrow / in 3 days / next week • Save — keep it in a clean saved list • Dismiss — don't need it, let it go No AI, no sign-up, no sync — everything lives in your browser via chrome.storage.local. It's intentionally simple: this is v1, built to test one thing — does a fast triage flow actually get people to clear their tabs and come back to do it again? Would love feedback on: - Does the triage flow feel fast enough, or does it get tedious past ~20 tabs? - Is Snooze useful as-is, or would you want custom reminders/keyboard shortcuts? - What would make you *return* to do another session next week? Thanks for checking it out 🙏

honestly love that you resisted adding ai or sync here. the four-button choice model is basically the whole product and it works because the options map so cleanly to what you actually want to do with a tab. clean execution

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 Appreciate that. Leaving out AI and sync was on purpose, not something I'll add later. Most tab tools give you more ways to save stuff, but I wanted to see if just naming the decision (Done/Snooze/Save/Dismiss) was enough by itself. Sounds like it's working for you, which is a relief.

Love that it forces a decision on each tab instead of letting me procrastinate. The four-option flow feels surprisingly calming and my saved list actually stayed organized for once.

Maker

 This is the reaction I was hoping for, especially the procrastination part. Which button do you end up using most? If it's mostly Snooze, that tells me people want "not now" more than "never," and I'd probably build v2 around that.

Love how simple this is, no AI noise is a big plus for me. One thing that would make it stickier for me: keyboard shortcuts for each of the four actions so I can blast through a backlog without touching the mouse at all.

Maker

 This is already next on the list, honestly. V1 was about proving the four decisions work at all, but shortcuts for Done/Snooze/Save/Dismiss are the obvious follow up once that's confirmed. Any preference on keys, or just arrow-key style mapping?

Love how the four-button setup makes me actually commit to a decision instead of just staring at my tab bar in despair. Snooze is the killer feature for me, I keep rediscovering stuff I saved days later.

Maker

 Snooze being the one that sticks is interesting, I expected Save to be the favorite. Rediscovering stuff days later is basically the whole point though, so glad it's landing like that. How many days out are you usually snoozing to?