Skipper - fewer tabs, more focus

Skipper automatically closes tabs after a while and in a very silent away, unless it closes the tabs right under your focus of attention, which it sometimes does. But not all sessions hosted by tabs are stateless. I have lost form data more than once because the tab was gone when not pinned. Even if the tab does not have state itself, the user has state of it in their mind. It causes cognitive dissonance when the user remembers they had a tab open of something but it was moved automatically. Unless they directly use Skipper for navigation (which Skeema supported better by showing up as default page), they will search for it in vain and that might mean even more effort than searching the tab within 50 others. Even worse: If the user forgot about the existence of some tab, unless they routinely browse through the stash collected in Skipper, it is lost. The search function is text-based; if you do not remember the names, you have to scroll through and keep hitting the "Show older" button to find something you may think lies further in the past without any other utility. Skeema generally seemed superior. Skipper is hardly a Skeema 2.0 (as advertized) considering that most features of Skeema were stripped. Just give users easy-to-control tools for tab management with bulk operations and nice UX and they can organize it by themselves and have accountability. Users are scared of closing tabs because those might still be needed later on (and often are, for example when you make an online job application and have to collect various information for it). And the tabs might have been created in the wrong context; it is difficult to move a set of tabs to another context and persist it. Users leave tabs in the wrong place and get cluttered because organization is mechanically effortful. If it was fast and simple to move tabs and switch context, users would do it and thereby gain focus and benefit from the freed-up resources. AI features should not decide, only advise. The name and logo were better, too, in my opinion. "Skeema" is a less overloaded term that is easier to search for and remember. And the logo with a more unique color arrangement stood out better as well, now it's generic and badly visible.

A lot of potential, just not what I expected! The most frustrating thing about Chrome tabs is having them in your point of view. If that problem is solved, game over. I do like how it removes the tab after a certain amount of time, but there needs to be an element of "out of sight, out of mind." Keep cooking!

I always considered myself a organized tabber but recently I realized how often I have to cycle through dozens of tabs to find what I'm looking for. I downloaded Skipper and it made my like 10x easier. Its so helpful to have the saved tabs filed neatly because a lot of the times I'm keeping tabs open so I can remember things I need to get done and this creates an easy checklist for me. I will continue to use Skipper for as long as I use Chrome :)