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Show HN: Toby the Tab Manager

29 pointsby rohamgover 8 years ago

5 comments

arthurcamaraover 8 years ago
Hey guys, I&#x27;m Arthur and I developed Toby. The motivation behind Toby was basically to have a UI where I could see all my tabs, organize them, have them &quot;on my face&quot; and treat them as stickers or cards that I could drag around and search through. I think that&#x27;s the user experience that works for me, it&#x27;s been helping me a lot and has made me more productive, so I wanted to share with other people who might benefit from it as well:)<p>Answering your questions here:<p>- About difference between this and bookmarks: well, it all depends on how you use Toby. I&#x27;ve seen people use it as an actual tabs manager, adding and deleting tabs after they&#x27;re done with it; others using it as a personal to do management board; and others using it as a bookmarking tool. In any case, I think having that type of UI is the biggest benefit and being able to drag around brings a totally different user experience, which I personally prefer. But please let me know how I can improve it even further.<p>- About Firefox and Opera: I haven&#x27;t planned that yet, to be honest, since it&#x27;s a fairly new project and I&#x27;m gathering everyone&#x27;s feedback, but it would certainly be nice to consider that and expand browser support.<p>- About syncing: It&#x27;s actually already under development and almost done. I&#x27;d say I&#x27;m 95% done and just need a few tweaks and extra testing before publishing sync with the new release. Yesterday and today we got thousands of new people using Toby and excited about it, so I want to make sure I do it right. I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s gonna be a super cool new feature.<p>Thank you guys for trying it out and please let me know if you have any other feedback, ideas, comments, etc.
ebalitover 8 years ago
It&#x27;s really interesting extension and I would love to use it. Is their any plan to take advantage of the Web Extensions standard to offer this extension on Firefox and Opera too?
mackflavelleover 8 years ago
I posted this to Product Hunt today. Even for that typically positive community, the response was so awesome.
wingerlangover 8 years ago
Looks nice but what&#x27;s the difference between this and a folder with bookmarks?
fiatjafover 8 years ago
Why it doesn&#x27;t sync? Uninstalling.