Volet

Vertical tabs in Chrome's side panel: switch between workspaces (Volets), each with its own pinned tabs, folders and colors.

Volet puts your tabs in a vertical list in Chrome's side panel, and sorts them into workspaces called Volets: one for work, one for a trip, one for a side project. Switch Volets and the sidebar shows only that Volet's tabs, tinted in its color. VOLETS • Each Volet has its own pinned tabs, folders and everyday tabs, and its own color. • Switch with the shutters at the bottom of the sidebar, a two-finger swipe, the search palette, or a keyboard shortcut. • Each window shows its own Volet. In Chrome's tab strip, every Volet is a tab group, and the others are collapsed out of the way. PINNED TABS AND FOLDERS • Pins keep their page: wander off and the row shows where you are, with a button to go back. • Close a pin's tab and the pin stays, ready for next time. Unpin it in one click. • Folders nest, and a collapsed folder still shows the tabs open inside it. FAVORITES • A grid of your most used sites at the top, shared by every Volet. EVERYDAY TABS • New tabs land below the pins. "Clear" closes them all at once. • Tabs you haven't used for 12 hours are archived (you choose how long, or never), and search finds them again. DRAG AND DROP • Drag tabs to reorder them, pin or unpin them, file them into folders or favorites, or move them to another Volet: hold one over a Volet's shutter to switch to it and drop it right where you want. • Nothing jumps around while you drag: a line shows where the tab will land. • Select several rows with Shift-click or Cmd/Ctrl-click and drag them together. SEARCH PALETTE • Press Alt+T (Option+T on a Mac) on any page to search your open tabs in every window, your pins, favorites, archived tabs and Volets, open a web address, or search the web. RIGHT-CLICK MENUS • Rename, move to another Volet, put in a new folder, change a Volet's color, and more, on every tab, pin, folder, favorite and Volet. COMING FROM ARC? • Import your Arc Spaces, with their colors, pinned tabs, folders and favorites. Volet reads Arc's sidebar file in your browser; the file never leaves your computer. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS • Your Volets, pins, folders and favorites live in your Chrome bookmarks, in a folder named "Volet", so they follow you to your other computers with Chrome Sync and survive a reinstall. • Volet has no server, no account and no analytics. Nothing you do is sent anywhere. KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS • Alt+S: show or hide the sidebar • Alt+T: search • Alt+P: pin or unpin the current tab • Next and previous Volet: set your own in chrome://extensions/shortcuts GOOD TO KNOW • Chrome's own tab strip stays at the top; Volet keeps it tidy by collapsing the other Volets' groups. • Chrome decides the side panel's width and Volet is free and open source (GPL-3.0): https://github.com/pierregoutheraud/volet