Two ways to open it

Some people want the extension floating over the page they are reading, out of the way of the layout. Others want it docked at the edge, always there, never overlapping. You get to choose, and you can change your mind whenever you like. This page shows you what each one looks like, how to switch between them, and what the full-page dashboard adds.

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The same tool, opened two ways

Clicking the eggz Tab Manager & Bill Capture button in your toolbar opens the same thing either of two ways. A floating card appears over the page you are reading. This is what you get out of the box. It sits on top of the page, so nothing on the page moves, reflows or resizes, and you can drag it anywhere and resize it. A docked side panel uses Chrome’s own panel at the edge of the window. The page makes room for it, and it stays open as you move from tab to tab. Both show exactly the same thing: your open tabs, your workspaces, your tasks, and a bar at the foot for searching and asking eggheadz. Settings is one click away.

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Choosing which one the button opens

Open Settings (the gear at the top of the card or panel) and the second section is Open as: The change takes effect on your very next click of the toolbar button. There is nothing to reload.

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The toolbar button is an on/off switch

It is not a switch between the two doors. Whichever one is open, the button closes it, and off always wins:

• Side panel open in this window? The button closes it.
• Nothing open? The button opens whichever door Open as names.
• On a page that cannot host a card, it opens the panel rather than doing nothing.

A keyboard shortcut goes to the door that is already open, so ⌘K and ⌘J land where you are looking rather than opening a second one.

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The floating card

Click the button and the card appears at the right-hand edge of the page, roughly the width of a side panel and the full height of the window less a small margin. Along its top edge, from left to right, you get a grip of dots at the very left, then the eggz logo. Drag the top bar anywhere that is not a button to move the card, exactly like a window’s title bar. Next come Light / dark mode, Open Dashboard and Settings, the same three buttons in the same order as the side panel. At the end sits Minimise eggheadz, the ×, on its own. Move towards it and three more slide out from behind it: Two sizes rather than a fixed list of them, because you can also drag any edge or corner of the card to make it any size you like. Whichever preset you are currently in is highlighted. The card remembers where you put it and what size you made it, separately for each screen size, so a spot you chose on a big external monitor is not imposed on your laptop screen later.

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Fold it into the pill

Click the ×, press Esc while you are working in the card, or double-click the eggz logo, and the card folds into a pill in the bottom-right corner. Pushing the card off the left, right or bottom edge of the window does the same. The conversation keeps going behind the pill. The pill says Working while eggheadz works, and how many answers are ready once they arrive. Click it, or press Enter on it, and the card comes back as it was, with your cursor in the chat box. Esc goes to whatever you are in first: it closes an open menu or cancels a rename before it folds the card. The card stays with you. Go to a new page or switch to another tab and the card is still there — it belongs to the window, not to the tab, the same way Chrome’s own side panel does. One thing does not survive a page change: an AI answer still being written. Click the toolbar button again to close the card. Closing it means closed — it does not reappear on your next tab switch.

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The docked side panel

This is Chrome’s own panel, at the edge of the window. The header carries the same buttons the card does, in the same order: If the page underneath cannot take a card — Chrome’s own pages, the Web Store, PDFs — the panel stays where it is rather than closing into nothing. Underneath sit three tabs, in this order: Open Tabs, Workspaces and Tasks. Open Tabs lists every tab you have open. See Open Tabs view. Workspaces holds your workspaces, your folders, and a collapsed Archived section at the bottom if you have any. New beside the Workspaces heading creates a workspace. Hover that heading and a folder icon appears beside it for a new folder. See Workspaces. Tasks is where the things you have saved as tasks, and the decisions waiting on you, live. At the foot of all three sits the ask bar. See The ask bar.

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The full-page dashboard

Click Open Dashboard in the header for the big version: a whole browser tab, for when it is tidy-up time rather than driving time. It shows the same data as the card and panel, and a change in one appears in the other straight away.

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The sidebar, slim or open

The sidebar starts slim, as a narrow column of labelled icons. An Open sidebar button sits at the very top, then Open Tabs carrying a badge with how many tabs you have open right now, then Tasks with its own badge, then the Active workspace (the one this window is using), your pinned workspaces, and an icon per folder. Hover a folder and its workspaces fan out beside it. The button at the foot reads New and creates a new workspace. Click Open sidebar, or press ⌘B (Ctrl+B on Windows and Linux), and it widens into the full list: Open Tabs, Tasks, your Active workspace, a Pinned section, every folder with its workspaces, any workspaces not in a folder, and Archived at the bottom, with New Workspace still at the foot. Press it again to go back to the slim column. Archived workspaces never appear on the slim column or its flyouts. They live in the wide sidebar only. The wide sidebar is where dragging, reordering and bulk actions happen.

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The main area

Pick Open Tabs and the main area becomes the full Open Tabs view. Pick Tasks and it becomes your tasks. Pick a workspace and you get two panes side by side. Tabs holds the workspace’s saved tabs, which you can click, rename, reorder and remove. Resources holds its saved links. Drag the divider between them to resize the split, and the dashboard remembers where you put it. Above the panes you get the workspace’s name, a Search button (or just press /), the theme toggle, and, when you are looking at a workspace this window is not using, a Switch to this workspace button.

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The ask bar

Along the foot of the dashboard, and of each of the side panel’s three tabs, sits one slim bar. Its grey words read Search, or ask eggheadz, or Try: followed by something waiting for you. Click it and type: what you type searches your workspaces, tabs and saved links as you go, and sending it asks eggheadz. On the dashboard, press ⌘I (Ctrl+I on Windows and Linux) to open the bar from the keyboard. The conversation opens as a sheet over the view you are in, and Esc closes it. It is the same chat on every surface. It replaces the separate assistant and search tabs. See The ask bar for the detail.

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Which should I use?

Most people end up using all three. The card or the panel is for driving: switching, saving and asking, all day. The dashboard is for organising properly. A common rhythm is the dashboard on Monday morning to get the week into workspaces, then the card for the rest of the week to live in them.