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You finish an hour on Birdsong Pottery and the phone goes: Marchmont Cafe needs an answer now. Without workspaces you close eleven tabs you will want again tomorrow, or you open a second window and hope. With workspaces you click a name and the window becomes the other job. This page covers making workspaces, switching between them, filing them into folders, and archiving the ones you have finished with.

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What a workspace is

A workspace is a saved set of browser tabs with a name, a colour and an icon. Make one per client, per project, or per hat you wear. Switch to a workspace and your window becomes that project’s tabs. Switch away and everything is saved exactly as you left it, ready for next time.

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Create a workspace

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Click New

In the card or side panel, click New beside the Workspaces heading. On the dashboard, click New Workspace at the foot of the open sidebar.
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Name it and make it yours

Give it a name of up to 40 characters, such as “Birdsong Pottery” or “Quarterly numbers”, then pick an icon and a colour. A live preview shows how the row will look.
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Click Create Workspace

The tabs you have open right now are added automatically, so your current session is safe immediately. It captures the window you created it from.
There are other ways to make one. Save all on a window in the Open Tabs view turns a whole window into a workspace, restoring a session snapshot creates one, and on the dashboard ⌘K → Create workspace does it from the keyboard.

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Switching brings everything back

Switching is the heart of the product, so here is exactly what happens. When you switch this window from workspace A to workspace B:
  1. A is saved first. Its tabs, their order, which tabs were pinned, your Chrome tab groups (names, colours, and whether they were collapsed), which tab you were focused on, and any custom tab names.
  2. B opens in the same window. Not just its tabs: its tab groups are rebuilt, pinned tabs are pinned again, your custom tab names are back on the strip, and the exact tab you were on last time is focused.
You do not get mystery windows or a rough approximation of what you had. You leave a workspace mid-thought and come back to the same thought. Where to click:
  • In the card or side panel, click the workspace’s name, or the ▶ Switch to workspace button that appears on hover.
  • In the dashboard sidebar, clicking a row shows that workspace’s tabs and links so you can look without committing. To actually switch, use the Switch pill that appears when you hover the row, or the Switch to this workspace button in the header.
  • From the keyboard, the Jump to a workspace shortcut (⌥A on a Mac, Alt+A on Windows and Linux) opens the quick switcher: most-recent first, with Enter flipping you straight back to your previous workspace. See Keyboard shortcuts.
  • On the dashboard, press ⌘K (Ctrl+K), choose Switch workspace…, and pick one.

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Next and previous workspace

Two more commands, Switch to the next workspace and Switch to the previous workspace, step through your workspace list in order and wrap around at the end. They ship without keys. Give them keys at chrome://extensions/shortcuts and you can cycle workspaces without opening anything.

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One workspace per window

Each Chrome window remembers its own workspace. Switching only ever affects the window you are in, so you can keep one client on your left monitor and another on your right, each window showing its own world. Want that second window without leaving your first? Hover a workspace row on the dashboard and click Open in new window. The workspace opens in a fresh Chrome window, groups and pins and all, and that window is now bound to it. Your current window does not change. The same button lives in the pinned-workspace flyouts on the slim sidebar.

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The row menu, two ways to open it

Every workspace row has a ⋯ button that appears when you hover it. Right-clicking the row does exactly the same thing: same menu, same items, opened right where your cursor is. Use whichever is quicker.
Right-click gives you the browser’s own menu instead in two cases: while you are typing a new name into a row, and while you are ticking rows with checkboxes. In both, the row has no menu to offer.
Here is what is in it:
When a workspace has no emoji set, its row shows the icon of its first saved tab, so workspaces tend to look like what they contain without you doing anything.

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Archiving, or filing without deleting

You have finished the Spring fair 2025 job, but you are not ready to throw it away. Archive it. An archived workspace leaves every list, Active and Pinned and its folder, and gathers in an Archived section at the very bottom, collapsed until you click it open. The heading shows the count, like Archived (3). It keeps everything: its tabs, tab groups, custom tab names and saved links are all intact. If it was pinned, it is unpinned, so it is out of the slim sidebar too. It also stays out of your way on purpose. You cannot switch into it or drop a tab onto it, its row menu is reduced to Restore and Delete, and hovering it offers Restore where other rows offer Switch. It stays out of search results and out of Select all, so a bulk action cannot sweep up something you deliberately shelved. Restore puts it straight back into the normal lists, exactly as it was, though not re-pinned. Pin it again if you want it in the slim sidebar.
On the dashboard you can also press ⌘K (Ctrl+K), type archive, choose Archive workspace…, and pick which one.

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Folders

Once you are past a handful of workspaces, group them into folders such as “Clients” or “Personal”. To create one, hover the Workspaces heading in the card or side panel and click the folder icon beside New. On the dashboard, click the + next to Folders. Type the name and press Enter. ⌘K → New folder works too. Rename, Set emoji icon and Delete folder live in the folder’s ⋯ menu. Deleting a folder is gentle: the workspaces inside are moved out, not deleted. To reorder, drag a folder up or down in the dashboard’s open sidebar, and a line shows where it will land. To fill a folder, drag a workspace onto it on the dashboard (or onto its icon on the slim sidebar), use ⋯ → Move to folder, or select several and move them together, as described below. Folders remember whether you left them open or closed. And while you are dragging a tab, holding still over a closed folder for a moment springs it open so you can drop on a workspace inside. See Moving tabs.

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Select several at once (bulk actions)

On the dashboard’s open sidebar you can act on many workspaces in one go:
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Start selecting

Hover any workspace or folder row and a faint checkbox appears on its left. Click it and you are in selection mode. Ticking a folder ticks everything inside it. Select all and Deselect all sit at the top of the list. Archived workspaces are never included in Select all.
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Act on the selection

A bar appears at the bottom of the sidebar showing “N selected” with two buttons: Move, which asks for a folder or no folder at all, and Delete.
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Changed your mind?

Esc clears the selection. And after a bulk delete, a message appears with an Undo button. Click it within 5 seconds and everything comes back exactly as it was.
Bulk-deleting a folder deletes the workspaces inside it too. That is different from deleting a folder from its ⋯ menu, which moves them out first. The 5-second Undo is your safety net, and after that it is permanent.

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The tabs inside a workspace

Select a workspace on the dashboard and its middle Tabs pane lists every saved tab. Click one and, if this workspace is the one your window is using, you jump to the live tab. Otherwise the page opens in a new tab. Hover a tab for its actions: Rename tab, where your name shows everywhere (see renaming), Open in new tab, and Remove tab. You can drag to reorder the saved list, or drag a tab onto another workspace in the sidebar to move it there. See Moving tabs.
Remove tab removes it from the workspace, and if that workspace is the active one, it also closes the live browser tab. There is no confirmation, so aim carefully.
Tabs are also saved automatically as you browse. With Auto-save tabs on, which is the default, the active workspace quietly keeps up with what you open and close, so switching away never loses anything. Every workspace also has Resources: links you want to keep without keeping a tab open. They live in the right-hand pane on the dashboard. To add one, click Add in the Resources pane header, paste the address, give it a title if you want, and click Save. To save one from a tab, click Save as resource on any row of the Open Tabs view, drag a tab onto the Resources pane, or right-click any page and choose eggz Tab Manager → Save for later & close tab. Hover a resource for the pencil and ✕ to edit or remove it. Clicking a resource does more than open it. It opens in a new tab and graduates into the workspace’s tabs, so it stops being a bookmark and starts being part of the session. If you only want a look, hover and use Open in new tab instead, and the resource stays put. Resources can be grouped into named sections, and you can drag a tab straight onto a section heading to file it there. In the card and side panel, the active workspace’s resources appear as a Resources section. Click one there and it simply opens in a new tab.

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Pinned tabs

Tabs you pin in Chrome get careful treatment. Pinning survives every switch and restart, and pinned tabs are never suspended by Performance modes or closed by Close duplicates.

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Opening a page you already have open?

eggz Tab Manager spots it and offers to jump you to the existing tab instead. See the duplicate catcher.