Workspaces
A workspace is a saved set of browser tabs (and related metadata) with a name, colour, and optional emoji. You can:
- Switch workspace — Chrome closes the current non-internal tabs in that window and opens the saved URLs from the target workspace (or starts from a new tab if empty).
- Capture tabs — Save what is open right now into a workspace.
- Organise — group tabs (Tab Groups in Chrome) when supported by your workflow and AI organise features.
What gets saved on a tab
Typically each stored tab includes:
- URL and title (as known when captured)
- Pinned state
- Tab group membership (when groups are restored)
Internal extension pages and some chrome:// pages are filtered for consistency and safety.
Switching workspaces
When you switch:
- The extension persists the current window’s real tabs into the previous workspace (for that window’s binding).
- It opens the target workspace’s tab list in the same Chrome window you triggered the switch from (when you use the side panel or dashboard attached to that window).
Think of switching as “replace this window’s tab strip with another saved set” — your tabs are not hidden in a mystery window; they are normal Chrome tabs that reload when discarded.
Multi-window use
If you run two normal Chrome windows:
- Each window can be bound to a different active workspace — the side panel or dashboard in that window shows the workspace relevant to that window.
- Global “last activated workspace” in storage may update when you switch, but the UI prefers the per-window binding so you are not fighting between monitors.
Pinned workspaces
Got a workspace you live in? Pin it and it jumps to the top — front and centre as an icon in the dashboard’s sidebar rail, so it’s always one click away. Pin or unpin from the right-click menu on any workspace (in the rail, the full sidebar, or the side panel), and the change shows up everywhere at once.
Pinned workspaces sit in their own Pinned section, above your folders, and they’re kept out of the “Ungrouped” pile so they don’t get lost in the crowd.
The full-page dashboard has a tidy icon rail down the side. It stays slim and out of the way by default — just a column of icons:
- Hover a folder icon and its workspaces fan out in a little pop-out menu (with Open Tabs and your Active workspace pinned at the top).
- Pin the rail open to keep the full list showing — click the » toggle or press ⌘\ / Ctrl+\. It slides open and closed smoothly.
- Quick actions appear when you need them. Hover a workspace row and a Switch button plus an Open in new window icon pop up — no digging through menus.
Drag and drop
You can rearrange things just by dragging:
- Reorder folders and workspaces, or drag a workspace into a folder (or back out to Ungrouped).
- Drag a tab onto a workspace to move it there.
Prefer the keyboard or right-click? The Move to folder and bulk-move menus still do everything drag-and-drop does — pick whichever feels comfier.
Pinned tabs
Pinned tabs are part of your workspace model. They are treated with extra care in Performance & RAM — pinned tabs are not eligible for automatic discard or Free RAM now.
Tab deduplication
If you navigate to a URL you already have open, the extension can show a banner (via the content script) offering to jump to the existing tab instead of keeping duplicates. This saves RAM and clutter.
Resources (optional)
Some builds support resources — saved links or notes grouped inside a workspace, separate from live tabs. Open URLs from resources when you need them without keeping them in the tab strip.