Mack Flavelle

Toby - Better Than Bookmarks

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Bookmarks are for books, not browsers. Organize your browser tabs into Toby so you can access key resources in one click instead of seven. Toby is browser extension that helps organize your tabs.

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Haoyang Feng
@arthur_camara is there a way for me to use Toby without it showing up for my new tab? If not this option is desperately needed.
Mack Flavelle
@haoyangnz @arthur_camara You can still use Toby without using it in every new tab. Just click on the Toby badge and then on the button "Open Toby" to bring up the Toby UI and all your lists.
Haoyang Feng
@mackflavelle @arthur_camara I understand we can open Toby up without opening a new tab. What I was asking though was how to stop it from showing automatically when I open a new tab - as I had other things showing up in new tabs but now taken over by Toby.
Arthur Camara
@haoyangnz @mackflavelle Working on a solution for this. It will be pretty cool, I promise. Keep an eye open, I'll update you guys soon on this :)
Evan Travers
Great product… needs keyboard shortcuts…
Arthur Camara
@evantravers Good idea Evan! What shortcuts would you use the most, you think? Would love to hear more.
Evan Travers
@arthur_camara Search is a huge need. I want to open a new tab, and just start typing the name of the tab or group that I want to focus.
Joe Fabisevich
@arthur_camara I'd love a shortcut for being able to view Toby modally without a new tab, so that way I don't have to go and close a tab when I am done looking at Toby.
Arthur Camara
@mergesort Great idea. I'll brainstorm this and come up with something super cool, hopefully. Keep sending me ideas :)
Arthur Camara
@evantravers Evan - search is there, but we currently do not autofocus the search field because maybe you're opening a tab just to visit a new page. Let me know what you think of it.
Luke Jernejcic
Pretty cool UI, but I was really hoping for something to replace OneTab. I need to be able to collect and close all the open tabs in the current window. I switch between projects frequently and usually have one browser window / project. Then if you could add functionality like The Great Suspender plugin it would be golden!
Arthur Camara
@jernejcic Hey Luke. Thanks for your feedback. That's a feature I'll certainly add in the very very near future. It's coming, I promise :)
Luke Jernejcic
@arthur_camara If you got those nailed and added mobile access (I assume that's coming with accounts), I'd be willing to pay a monthly fee up to $5/month, FYI ;-)
Arthur Camara
@jernejcic Awesome to know Luke. Yeah, we'll certainly brainstorm a bit, and move with those as quickly as possible to bring a new update asap.
Elizabeth
Aha, @Trello for tabs? How'd you know I needed this VERY BADLY? @AxiomZenTeam @mackflavelle
Arthur Camara
Kitze
Ah, i thought this is some kind of an organiser for the current open tabs and windows, but it's actually just like a bookmark manager.
Arthur Camara
@thekitze Hey Kitze. Well, people use Toby in many different ways. But you're right, some use it almost like a bookmarking tool. Now: try searching your bookmarks (for a word that is not in the url or title). Now try search on Toby. Toby searches through all your tabs, even the ones you added to your lists, not just the title, but the content. There are many other useful features to come, though, and you'll see it will do a bunch more than just pin your favorite tabs. The UI is currently the biggest benefit for me and that's why I wanted to share it with people, get feedback, and so on. Thanks a lot for trying Toby and let me know if you have any other thoughts.
Zeid Marouf
I'm a major tab hoarder (up to 200 per session) and I had to remove one of my tab managers last week because it had been sold to who knows whom and the new owners had decided to earn their keep by implementing a redirection scam that was barely noticeable. So thank you for existing and please please don't sell your extension to the Dark Side.
Arthur Camara
@zeidmarouf Thanks a lot Zeid! I developed this to help me get better organized and there's absolutely no reason for me not to keep doing that. This needs to help self management and organization - that's the goal!
Robin Good
@zeidmarouf What was that tab manager you were using Zeid? That's valuable info to share.
David Chang
@arthur_camara It's a really helpful extension to have on my Chrome. Great idea and product execution! There are some minor glitches like dragging and displaying. I've include my suggestions here: http://reviewmonster.org/toby_app/ Please keep updating it for a better productive workflow.
Arthur Camara
@chang2301 Thanks! Awesome review
Sam Ayres
Are there any plans of making Toby sync across multiple devices, ie. work and personal laptops? I can appreciate the concerns of privacy, maybe an opt-in feature for the information to be stored on your servers, or you could encrypt the url of the tabs on-sync which would also work well. I've installed the extension and it works really well, thank you.
Arthur Camara
@samayres1992 Yes, very very very soon you'll be able to sync. Stay tuned!
Sam Ayres
@arthur_camara Cool, thanks!
Arthur Camara
@samayres1992 YES! That's now implemented in version 0.2.2. Go check it out and come back to lmk what you think
Sam Ayres
@arthur_camara Ah a google drive sync, very nicely done. Thanks for the heads up, it works great. 😊
bayoyong
Safari?
Charity Amis
I wish this worked with safari. But I guess everyone uses chrome these days. I used to use chrome. Sigh.
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