Moving tabs into workspaces

The supplier price list you opened this morning belongs with Marchmont Cafe, not with the job you are actually doing. Dragging is how it gets there. This page shows you what you can pick up, everywhere you can drop it, how to copy instead of move, and how to take a drop back.

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What you can pick up

You can drag an open tab, meaning any row in the Open Tabs list, in the side panel, the floating card, or the dashboard. You can also drag a saved tab, meaning any row in a workspace’s Tabs pane on the dashboard, and a saved link, meaning any row in a workspace’s Resources pane on the dashboard.

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Where you can drop it

The rules are the same everywhere, so there is nothing to relearn between the panel and the dashboard.

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Move is the default, hold a key to copy

Let go normally and the tab moves: it is saved into the workspace you dropped it on, and closed where it was. Hold ⌥ Option (Alt on Windows and Linux) as you let go and the tab is copied instead: saved into the workspace and left open where it was. You do not have to remember which one you are getting, because it is written on screen while you drag.

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The label that follows your cursor

From the moment you pick a tab up, a small card follows your cursor. The top line is the page you are carrying. The line underneath tells you exactly what letting go right now would do:

Moving 1 tab to Marchmont Cafe — hold ⌥ Option to copy

Press the key mid-drag and it changes as you watch:

Copying 1 tab to Marchmont Cafe — release ⌥ Option to move

It names the workspace you are hovering, counts what you are carrying, and always spells the key the way your own keyboard does: ⌥ Option on a Mac, Alt on Windows and Linux.

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If you would rather copy every time

If you want dragging an open tab to keep it open by default, turn on Settings → Open Tabs view → Keep the original tab open when dragging to a workspace. The modifier then does the opposite, so you hold ⌥ Option (Alt) to move. The label on the card always tells you which way round you are, whichever way you have set it. This setting is about open browser tabs only. Dragging a saved tab or a saved link is unaffected.

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Undo

Every drop can be taken back. When a drop lands, a message appears in the corner, “Moved 1 tab to Marchmont Cafe.”, with an Undo button and the undo shortcut beside it. You have ten seconds, and two ways to use them: click Undo, or press ⌘Z (Ctrl+Z on Windows and Linux). The message always counts what really changed. Drop a page into a workspace that already has it and you will read “Already in Birdsong Pottery — 1 tab unchanged.” rather than a move that never happened.

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Reopened tabs keep their history

Undoing a move puts the tab back where it was. Where Chrome still has the tab in its recently-closed list, it comes back whole: your back button still works, and the page is where you left it rather than freshly loaded. If Chrome has already forgotten it, the page is reopened from its address instead, so undo always puts something back. Undoing a copy removes the copy and closes any tab the copy opened. Either way, a short message confirms it: “Move undone. 1 tab reopened.”

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Other ways to move a tab

Dragging is not the only route. Right-click any web page and choose eggz Tab Manager → Move tab to workspace, then pick one. The tab is saved there and closed here. Your most recently used workspaces are listed first, up to 25 of them. On the dashboard, press ⌘K (Ctrl+K), type move, and choose Move tab to workspace…. See the command bar. To save without closing, use the Save tab to a workspace shortcut (⌥D on a Mac, Alt+D on Windows and Linux). It opens a small picker and the tab stays open. Or press ⌘K and type save.