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Ask HN: How to align browser tabs with its' contexts?

3 pointsby arpanetusover 2 years ago
I usually have hundreds of unorganised tabs that I can barely arrange. I just open a different window for a different context (supposedly learning a new thing =&gt; new window). But often I don&#x27;t finish, thus leave them in the midst.<p>One viable solution I could come up with was the &quot;different profile&quot; thing (e.g. work profile, school profile). Yet opening up another profile for a temporary context doesn&#x27;t sounds nice (supposedly it might be some tutorial that might take a week). And I don&#x27;t want to close those tabs&#x2F;tab groups and leave them like that, so even in that case they occupy some space (mental, or RAM).<p>Is there a thing which did help you to organise these tabs, so that you could close them and return after a while without actually losing anything?

2 comments

CrypticShiftover 2 years ago
There is a whole industry of &quot;tab managers&quot; and &quot;session managers&quot;. I&#x27;m a &quot;bookmarks&quot; person, so I will just give you one (chrome) suggestion: Tabs Outliner [1] is a popular option with a tree of &quot;contexts&quot;. There are many alternatives [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;tabs-outliner&#x2F;eggkanocgddhmamlbiijnphhppkpkmkl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;tabs-outliner&#x2F;eggk...</a> [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alternativeto.net&#x2F;software&#x2F;tabs-outliner&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alternativeto.net&#x2F;software&#x2F;tabs-outliner&#x2F;</a>
arpanetusover 2 years ago
I finally found out about tab folders in chromium-like browsers. Bookmarks are also fine, yet I always thought they&#x27;re clumsy.<p>I assume it works for me. Maybe someone still has a better solution.