Hey Everyone 👋, I'm the maker of Tabbie. After several weekends of context switching between projects from the work week and typical weekend browsing, I decided to build this little extension. So for it's made it a little easier to jump back into the week on Mondays 😊
I'd love to hear feature suggestions or critiques if you've got them! (keeping track of those here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsh...). A couple things I'm fixing now:
- A11Y fixes
- Make the default to select current tabs in window (seems these are called a session)
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@hjharnis hmm, it seems to save just a single tab right now. I would also *love* to see it autosave any more tabs you add to that window/tab-group. Really hope you'll continue working on it, been hoping for a maintained decent tab groups saver for chrome for ages!
@zee It is possible to save multiple tabs by using Cmd (or ctrl on windows) + click, but there's been a lot of feedback saying that isn't intuitive. Just about to push out a release that grabs the all of the open tabs by default, which seems to be what most people are expecting it to do. Hope that helps!
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@hjharnis ah that's great to hear. Thanks. Do you plan to have new tabs created auto-save too to avoid having to keep on manually resaving? Thanks.
@zee Hadn't looked into that yet, would need to think a little more on the use case there. I'll add it on the feedback and github issues page for this project. Thank you for the suggestion 🙌
Just made a small change based on the wonderful feedback that people have been sharing. Now it saves your all your open tabs by default. You can still save only selected tabs if you like. There's a checkbox to toggle this feature on/off. If you want this now you can update the extension by going to chrome://extensions/ and then clicking the "Update Extensions Now" button.
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@hjharnis is this open source? I'd love to get in touch :)
I'm currently using TabCloud but just switched to Tabbie! Much prettier and no need to auth via Google. Great stuff! 👌
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Interesting! I'll keep an eye on this one to see where it's headed for sure!
The past year I've been using OneTab (simple and awesome) + The Great Suspender without much complaints, after using TabBundler for a few years. The latter appears to be very similar to what you're doing here, but it looks like development stopped despite its potential. It aged badly and its latest added feature "autosave" just causes more work and complexity rather than relieving the user from it..
I would love my Tab Management to look something like this: https://web-design-tools.zeef.co... where you would be able to drag & drop tabs between window groups but also have simple helper tools to resolving duplicate tabs, "smart categorizing" & auto sorting open tabs accordingly. Things like that would help users a lot. But be sure to allow user control as well.
Once you can categorize peoples tabs for them, you are close to great features like suggesting useful online content through API's from services like delicious, pocket, quora, medium, twitter, amazon, etc. This could even be a good monetization chance, if done well!
Btw, using (only) that tiny extension flyout to show your saved tabs is a big mistake TabBundler made as well. It makes very little sense to do so when you can use a complete browser tab instead! It always blew my mind. Using the full available real-estate of a browser window is definitely one of the factors that makes "The Great Suspender" such a pleasure to use.. — Something to consider..
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Do these sync across devices that are signed in under the same account? That would be quite useful!
@stinhambo this should sync across devices for you. It uses Chrome's built in sync API. I tested this on two different Mac devices successfully. Could you let me know if it works for you?
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I use OneTab and Toby. What exists here that should draw me away from them?
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