tap-tap - tidy tabs

Groups, sorts and tidies your tabs automatically, with a long-press menu and a usage dashboard.

tap-tap keeps your tab strip organised without asking you to think about it - and shows you where your time actually goes. It groups tabs by the site they came from, names each group after the site, and keeps those groups in order. Open a few YouTube tabs and they become a YouTube group. Follow a link somewhere else and that tab leaves the group on its own. Come back, and it is filed again. Hold your mouse still on any page and a ring of your most recent tabs appears around the pointer. And a dashboard counts the time you actively spend on each site - kept in your browser, shown only to you. Set it up once, and then forget it is there. WHAT IT DOES • Groups tabs by site. One group per site, named and coloured the same way every time, created once a window holds enough tabs from that site to be worth grouping. • Merges duplicate groups. Chrome's own sync can leave you with two groups of the same name sitting side by side. tap-tap folds them into one, keeping the older group and whatever it is called. • Collapses what you are not using. A group you have not touched for a while folds itself away, so the strip stays short. • Keeps things in order. Groups along the strip, and the tabs inside each group, sorted either by name or by when you opened them. • Closes tabs before or after the one you right-click, within that tab's group rather than across the whole strip. Or closes that tab's duplicates: every other tab in the window on the same page. • Closes duplicate tabs on its own, if you ask it to. A tab whose page is already open in the window goes once you have left it alone for a while, keeping the tab you are looking at, or otherwise the one you used last. • Suspends tabs you have not used for a while, if you ask it to. A suspended tab keeps its place and its group, stops using memory, and reloads the moment you click it. • Optionally closes tabs you have not looked at in a long time, and takes groups you have stopped using apart, so they do not collect in the bookmarks bar as saved groups. • Long-press pie menu. Hold the mouse (or your finger) still on any page and a ring appears around your pointer: the tabs you used last, each with its icon and title, plus a new tab. The tab you were just on is always to the right, so going back is one slide with nothing to read; the rest follow round in the order you used them, across every window. Slide into a wedge and release. The tab you just closed stays on the ring for five minutes; pick it to bring it back. • Usage dashboard. How long you actively used each site today, this week, this month - counted only while the tab is in front of you and you are at the machine. Each site also shows what you keep open alongside it. A small summary follows your Chrome account, so the numbers add up across your devices. WHAT IT WILL NOT DO tap-tap manages the groups it made. A group you named yourself stays yours: it is never renamed, never taken apart, and its tabs are never closed. The most it will do is file a new tab from that same site into it, so your tabs end up beside the ones they belong with. A tab you drag out of a group stays out. tap-tap will not put it back until you send that tab somewhere else. Anything that closes a tab is off until you turn it on. Even then, pinned tabs, tabs playing audio, and the tab you are looking at are never closed. SETTINGS Group tabs by site, by full subdomain, or automatically — where a site stays whole, but a front door to separate products like Google gives Gmail and Calendar their own groups. Choose how many tabs from a site it takes to start a group, and how few it takes to dissolve one. Choose how long a group sits untouched before it folds away, and whether idle groups are taken apart, inactive tabs suspended, idle duplicates closed, or inactive tabs closed at all. The pie menu and the usage timer each have their own off switch. PRIVACY tap-tap never reads or changes the content of any web page. Its one content script only listens for the long press that opens the pie menu. It reads tab addresses to work out which site each tab belongs to and to time your active use per site, and all of that stays in your browser and your own Chrome sync. Nothing is ever transmitted to us or anyone else - there is no server, no account, and no analytics of any kind. The usage timer can be switched off entirely. Your settings travel with your Chrome account, so every device you sign in on behaves the same way. Your tabs and groups are not copied anywhere by this extension.