Skipper - Tab management that works with ADHD brains
Meet your brain's new best friend: adaptive tab management that keeps you focused, even when ADHD makes task-switching tough.
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4.14
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Helps organize tabs and reduces clutter
- Improves productivity by managing open tabs automatically
- User-friendly and easy to set up
- Responsive development team receptive to feedback
Cons
- Issues with saving and closing tabs as advertised
- Occasional loss of unsaved form data due to automatic tab closing
- Requires proper setup and understanding to be effective
- Confusion regarding sign-in and initial installation process
Most mentioned
- Organizes tabs effectively
- Reduces anxiety related to tab management
- Enhances focus by decluttering the workspace
- Frustration with saving and tab management not working as expected
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| 2024-12-21 |  | | en | Doesn't do anything for me. I installed it and watched the video. When I click the Skipper icon in my pinned extensions a small empty text field appears below it. The Skipper icon never appears in my tab bar. It looks like a useful extension but it'd be nice if there was some actual documentation instead of just a video. EDIT - OK, I figured it out - you have to sign into Chrome before it works. Not sure how to get that sign-in screen on request, but it appeared after I removed and reinstalled Skipper. Will update this review after using it more. |
| 2024-12-18 |  | | en | I'm confused several times it said it's saving and _closing_ 100+ open tabs, and, yes, it saved on the third time, but haven't closed ANY them! Still have some 150 tabs open... I thought that was a limitation of the free version, so I signed up for the Pro, but that hasn't changed jack! |
| 2024-12-12 |  | | en | So so so so helpful! Give this a try. |
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| 2024-12-05 |  | | en | Good for more than just ADHD brains. Keeps things organized. Be sure to learn to use the settings to get it to work for your workflow. |
| 2024-11-15 |  | | en | I started using Skipper (it was Skeema at the time) and I found it useful to find tabs I knew I had open but were hidden in the 50+ or so I had open on every browser. I liked it a lot then and since then they've added a feature where folders are now opening in the center pane, instead of the sidebar which is fantastic. The tabs are grouped by category which makes it very simple to find and maintain order. I am no longer hesitant to close tabs in fear of never finding the site again because I've forgotten about it. I think one of the last things I would like to see is an integration of a bookmarking tool like rainbow.io with features where I can put notes into the platform about the site, search the notes, and really organize my tab life. |
| 2024-02-21 |  | | en | ADHD -very spatial and neurospicy here- I love this extension. I can see previously visited tabs in a very nicely organized way. A great and useful way to make sure my numerous tabs aren't forgotten and it creates connections between sites I've traveled to that I previously haven't seen correlation. Simple, lightweight and does what is advertised in a very nice way. The Dev team is VERY receptive of feedback and after chatting with them (after they reached out to me), there's a bunch of planned features to come, which makes me very excited to be able to provide them with detailed feedback and possibly influence the future of Skipper. |
| 2024-11-03 |  | | en | 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. |
| 2024-10-21 |  | | en | 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! |
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