Tab Man

Multi-window tab manager with auto-grouping, scheduled tab opens, per-site time budgets, home-tab toggle, and bulk reorganize.

Tab Man is for people who keep too many tabs open across too many windows. Click the toolbar icon (or hit Alt+Shift+T) to open a full-page manager: every tab from every window in one sortable, filterable table — plus auto-grouping rules, scheduled tab opens, per-site daily time budgets, and a home-tab toggle. Every destructive action has five steps of undo. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ONE TABLE, ALL YOUR TABS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Sort by any column. Shift-click headers to add tiebreakers with rank indicators • Filter by title, URL, domain, or tab-group name • Group the view by domain, window, tab group, or age • Multi-select with shift-click ranges; group-header checkboxes select every tab in that bucket • Click a title to jump to the tab; ✕ to close it; ⌂ to set as home • Bulk actions: close, add to group, create new group, ungroup • Friendly per-window labels (W1, W2…) so you can tell windows apart • Live updates — the manager subscribes to Chrome's tab events; no polling ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ AUTO-GROUPING RULES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Route tabs into colored Chrome tab groups as they navigate. • Match by Domain (hostname + subdomains) or URL prefix (subdomain-tolerant) • Drag rule cards to set precedence — first match wins • "Apply now" does a clean-slate reorganize across all windows ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SCHEDULED TAB OPENS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Open a URL in a new, focused tab at a chosen time. • Repeating: fires at a set time on chosen days of the week • One-time: fires once at a specific date and time, then auto-deletes • Catches up if Chrome was off when the firing time passed (toggleable) • "Open now" button on any row fires the schedule immediately Backed by chrome.alarms so firing works while the browser is idle. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PER-SITE TIME BUDGETS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Cap your daily time on specific sites. • Match by Domain or URL prefix; set minutes per day • Time only counts when the site's tab is active AND its window is focused • When exhausted, matching pages redirect to a block screen with the local-midnight reset time and a Snooze +9 minutes button • Uses dynamic host permissions — Chrome only grants access to a site when YOU add a budget for it ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOME TAB ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Designate one tab as "home" and jump to it from anywhere. • Same shortcut bounces back to where you came from • Per-window mode: each window can keep its own independent home • Survives Chrome restarts — re-links the saved URL to a matching tab on startup, or reopens it if no match • The home tab gets a 🏠 mark and a green tint in the manager ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RIGHT-CLICK CLEANUP ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Right-click any page or the toolbar icon for granular closures with live counts: • Close this exact page • Close everything under host/path/* • Close everything on host • Close everything on *.apex-domain • Close OTHER tabs on this host • Close duplicate tabs Pinned tabs are protected. Slots that would kill the same set are collapsed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FIVE-STEP UNDO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Every close, group, ungroup, rule delete, schedule delete, budget delete, and import can be reversed with the toast button or ⌘Z / Ctrl+Z. Closed tabs come back via chrome.sessions.restore so history and scroll position are preserved. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EXPORT / IMPORT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A versioned JSON bundle round-trips your auto-group rules, schedules, budgets, and (opt-in) full workspace — every open window with all its tabs and groups. Merge mode skips duplicates; replace mode wipes the section first. Workspace imports always open as new windows alongside what you've got, never destructive. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Defaults — rebind any of them at chrome://extensions/shortcuts: • Open Tab Manager — Alt+Shift+T • Home Tab: go / toggle — Alt+Shift+H • Home Tab: back to recent — Alt+Shift+B • Home Tab: set current as home — Alt+Shift+S • Regroup this window by domain • Regroup this window by recency • Apply auto-group rules • Ungroup this window • Open Tab Man and focus search ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVACY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Zero network calls — all data stays in your browser • No content scripts, no remote code; the manager and block screen are local extension pages • Budget blocking uses dynamic host permissions — Chrome only grants Tab Man access to a site when you add a budget for it • No analytics, no tracking, no remote servers Help: apphelp@bcklg.com