Lanes - Tab Memory & Focus Manager

Categorize tabs and sleep everything outside the active category.

Lanes keeps your open tabs organized by context, helping you stay focused on one thing at a time, and automatically frees up RAM by putting everything else to sleep. If you're the kind of person who ends up with 50+ tabs open across unrelated projects (research, entertainment, coding, shopping), those tabs aren't just a memory problem. They're a focus problem: every unrelated tab sitting a click away is a standing invitation to context-switch. Lanes solves both at once by letting you group tabs into categories you define, and tracking one "active" category at a time. Everything outside it gets discarded (put to sleep) automatically, so it's out of sight, out of mind, and out of memory. How it works: 1. Create your own categories: Entertainment, Deep Work, Research, whatever fits how you actually use your browser. 2. When you open a new tab, Lanes asks which category it belongs to. Answer once; it remembers that site next time. 3. Set your active category and commit to it. Everything outside it gets discarded immediately, so you're not tempted to drift into it, and you reclaim the memory it was using. 4. Open or switch to a tab from a different category and Lanes asks if you really want to switch focus there. Decline, and you're sent right back to what you were doing, with that tab put to sleep instead of sitting there distracting you. 5. A dashboard shows every category with live tab counts, an overview of total/uncategorized tabs, and lets you jump to or close any tab directly. 6. Rename or delete categories anytime as your focus areas change. Built for low-memory machines, and for staying on task Discarded tabs aren't closed. They reload instantly, exactly where you left off, the moment you actually need them. Lanes lets you keep dozens of tabs "open" conceptually without either the RAM cost or the constant pull of unrelated tabs sitting in view. Privacy Lanes collects nothing and has no server. Everything (your categories, which tabs belong to them) is stored locally in your browser using chrome.storage, and never leaves your device. Check out the privacy policy at: https://jollybolt.github.io/lanes-privacy/