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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 Chrome tab group by its heading. Dropped on another window’s divider in the Open Tabs list, the whole group moves to that window. The drag label reads Moving with no copy hint, because a group only moves. See Chrome tab groups. 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.
Several at once. Hover a row in a tab list and a small square appears where its icon was. Click it to start selecting. ⌘-click (Ctrl-click on Windows and Linux) toggles one more row, and Shift-click takes everything between. Then drag any selected row and the whole selection travels together. Esc clears the selection.

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Where you can drop it

In the card and side panel, Open Tabs and Workspaces are separate tabs, so an open tab and a workspace are never on screen together there. Dragging an open tab onto a workspace happens on the dashboard, where the Open Tabs list sits beside the sidebar. In the card and side panel, click the row’s Save to workspace button instead.

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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 keyboard shortcut only works while the message is on screen, and it never takes ⌘Z away from a text box. If you are typing in a rename field or the search box, ⌘Z undoes your typing, as it should.
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.”
Undo covers the last drop only, and only for ten seconds. It also stays out of the way of anything else you did in the meantime. If you renamed a workspace or added a link somewhere else while the message was up, that is left exactly as you left it.

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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 & Bill Capture → 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 200 of them, and archived workspaces are left out. If you have more, the last line reads Showing 200 of N — open the panel for the rest. On the dashboard, press ⌘K (Ctrl+K), type move, and choose Move tab to workspace…. See the command bar. To keep the page as a task instead, choose eggz Tab Manager & Bill Capture → Save as a task. The tab stays open. 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.