tabExtend helps you manage your tabs. The browser extension replaces your new tab with an overview where you can create groups containing your tabs, notes, and text-snippets. Visually organize it all with ease using drag and drop and handy shortcuts.
I've been following Gustav's progress on tabExtend for awhile now and I'm incredibly impressed with the product and the speed at which he's been shipping improvements. If you're the kind of person that always has a bunch of tabs open go install this extension right now. It's gonna change your life!
Hi Product Hunt! 👋
My name is Gustav and I am a tab addict. I'm also the one-man team behind tabExtend. I built the browser extension to be more efficient in my day-to-day workflow. We all know that too many tabs are detrimental to our focus and I used to spend a lot of time saving and organizing tabs into bookmarks and other apps. But I wanted a place where I could, without too much effort, save and find my tabs, jot down notes, and create to-dos. It also needed to be quick and easy to access.
After spending large parts of last year in lockdown, working late nights and weekends, I finally found the focus to create the tool for myself. After several iterations, redesigning, obsessing over performance, and testing with thousands of users, I'm now very excited to present tabExtend to you 🎉.
To be honest, it's far from perfect and it's not a revolutionary idea. There are plenty of apps that try to solve the same pain points in different ways. But I wanted a combination of features from some of my favorite apps, think Trello meets Notion meets Toby.
From the get-go, I wanted it to be as frictionless as possible for users to try the app. To start, you don't need an account, there's no time limit, you will only hit the limit after 30 saves. If you spend a lot of time working in your browser I hope you will try tabExtend and that it can bring you some value.
There are plenty of features left to be built, like a proper way of sharing groups, native mobile apps, and other integrations. If you do decide to try tabExtend I would love to hear your feedback and ideas. Cheers, and thank you!
@almost_designer supporting different browsers have unfortunately been more work than anticipated, but if I add support for another browser it will be Safari.
This extension really revolutionized my workflow. got introduced to it while writing my BA thesis, it worked perfectly for browsing, sorting and going in and out of workflows. Really recommend this one for content-rich workflows and uni students!
@gitesh Thanks for your feedback and being an early user, means a lot. Being able to try apps without too much hassle before committing to anything is something I appreciate in other apps, so it was a given that there would be a free plan for users to try the extension thoroughly.
Sometimes I think we tend to over engineer things. I have a simple html page as my browser default home page (stored on local C drive so it loads fast). It contains all my approx 200 most used links, laid out neatly so I can see them all on a single page right in front of my eyes; and I can find any link in a fraction of a second. Why do I need anything more?
@steveprocter Steve if you found a solution that works for you, then great! We all have our own ways of working so tabExtend will of course not be for everyone.
Having a good overview and quickly being able to access your favorite links has been a priority for me too when building this. On top of that there is the drag and drop feature so you can easily change and rearrange your links when you need to. I also added the ability to create notes and it has actually grown to be my most used feature. I use it as my own kanban board and make plans for the upcoming day by writing simple notes and to-dos that I can easily move around.
A kanban board for browser tabs? Instant personal product of the day for me ❤️
How about performance issues if I save, let's say 25 tabs in there? Is it reducing memory consumption in the same way like OneTab?
@carlo_thissen Awesome to hear! reducing memory consumption is maybe something I have not mentioned but, yes it totally saves you memory consumption. Once you save your tabs they are not taking up any memory whatsoever.
I've been using TabExtend for a few weeks and I'm loving it. There's something so satisfying about having organised bookmarks, accessible through an intuitive dashboard. I tried to build this kind of app myself last year to scratch my own itch with no success, Gustav was kind enough to share some tips on the development. Great app great dev.
@joshmillgate Thanks a ton Josh. I have learned so much from building this so it's only right to pass on some of the knowledge. Big shoutout to all the great tutorials and libraries available out there, would not have been able to build this without them.
Exactly what I was looking for! I just couldn't make it work on my browser, I use sidekick and whenever I try to open the extension it opens sidekick page. Please check if you can fix it, it would help me a lot! Congrats on the product, seems you have done a very good job there :)
@joao_victor_gelio1 I download sidekick a few months ago and tried to install tabExtend in it after a user requested it. But at the time they did not support new tab extensions. I believe I saw a comment from the maker that they might allow a new tab extension in the future, not sure what the status is atm. Great product nonetheless
This is very creative, I wish this product existed when I was doing my thesis.
One Suggestion for your product. Please give me an option to remove TabExtend from the empty chrome tab and host that page in a separate chrome extension URL (like this chrome-extension://extension id)
Because I am using some other extension in the empty chrome tab
I have been using tabExtend since it first came out in a pre-release form. It has evolved so much since then, and that is because of all the hard work and love that Gustav puts into his product. He is very receptive to new ideas that I have offered him and is very fast at implementing them.
I have tried all of the tab managers out there, often switching to a different one every week because I could never find 'the one.' But since using tabExtend, I have not changed or even thought about trying another tab management extension.
That says a lot! Great job, Gustav! :-)
@fraxis Cheers Shawn. building a product for myself only took me so far. Your and other users feedback has proved to be invaluable to improving the app.
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