Description
Forty tabs open, the favicons squeezed into an unreadable strip, and you cannot close any of them: three are documents to read this week, five relate to the bug you are on, the rest you no longer remember opening. Bookmarking them is the same as deleting them — nobody goes back into that tree. Toby takes a different line: it replaces the new tab page with cards carrying each tab's title and your own note, grouped into collections you can open or close as a set.
The difference from a bookmark bar is that this is for the handful of things you are working on now, not for long-term storage. Spaces on the left keep work, reading and design apart, each holding its own collections. A card takes a one-line note — "needs a final read", "ship before the freeze" — so two days later you know why it was kept without opening it. Collections share to a colleague as the same set of links.
Tabs become cards: drag every tab in the window into a collection and the browser empties; each card keeps the favicon, title and whatever note you add, which reads far better than a one-line bookmark.
Open or close a whole set: a collection restores as tabs in one click, or a group of tabs is put away together — switching tasks stops meaning closing things one at a time.
Spaces above collections: the top level separates work, personal, reading and design, with collections inside each, so dozens of collections stay legible.
It owns the new tab page: the workspace is simply there when you open a tab, rather than behind a toolbar button.
Search everything saved: find a tab by title, URL or note across all collections, which beats digging through a bookmark tree.
Shareable collections: hand a colleague or a team the same set of links and notes instead of pasting a list of URLs.
Drag to organise: cards and collections reorder by dragging, so tidying is done by moving related things together rather than designing a folder structure first.
Chrome and Firefox: available for both, so switching browsers does not mean switching tools.
The difference from a bookmark bar is that this is for the handful of things you are working on now, not for long-term storage. Spaces on the left keep work, reading and design apart, each holding its own collections. A card takes a one-line note — "needs a final read", "ship before the freeze" — so two days later you know why it was kept without opening it. Collections share to a colleague as the same set of links.
Features
Tabs become cards: drag every tab in the window into a collection and the browser empties; each card keeps the favicon, title and whatever note you add, which reads far better than a one-line bookmark.
Open or close a whole set: a collection restores as tabs in one click, or a group of tabs is put away together — switching tasks stops meaning closing things one at a time.
Spaces above collections: the top level separates work, personal, reading and design, with collections inside each, so dozens of collections stay legible.
It owns the new tab page: the workspace is simply there when you open a tab, rather than behind a toolbar button.
Search everything saved: find a tab by title, URL or note across all collections, which beats digging through a bookmark tree.
Shareable collections: hand a colleague or a team the same set of links and notes instead of pasting a list of URLs.
Drag to organise: cards and collections reorder by dragging, so tidying is done by moving related things together rather than designing a folder structure first.
Chrome and Firefox: available for both, so switching browsers does not mean switching tools.
