Tabs Outliner

The Next Generation Session Manager; A Really Working Too Many Open Tabs Solution; And Your Browsing Notebook.

Tabs Outliner - Tab and Session Manager

Tabs Outliner is a fusion of tabs manager, session manager, and personal information organizer. It allows you to easily manage, annotate, organize, and save open and saved tabs in a tree-like structure, helping you reduce resources usage and handle crashed sessions effectively. The extension offers innovative features such as tree-style tab, crash resistance and restore, tabs list exporter, and one-click procrastination stopper.
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Extension stats

Users: 100,000+
Version: 1.4.153 (Last updated: 2024-10-02)
Creation date: 2020-04-30
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • tabs
  • unlimitedStorage
  • favicon
  • identity
  • system.display
Size: 1.56M

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Extension summary

Tabs Outliner is a fusion of tabs manager, session manager and an tree like personal information organizer. It’s also embed instruments that greatly help reduce open tabs count by making possible easily annotate and close-save open windows and tabs in their original context. And what’s more important - allow then working with there saved tabs practically in the same way as with open ones, thus greatly reducing resources usage.

It also implements one of the best ways to handle crashed sessions - an unfortunate reality for users with a habit of accumulating hundreds of open tabs.

= FEATURES AND CAPABILITIES =

☀ Complete Overview of all your open and saved tabs and windows, along with custom added notes and marks.

☀ Flexible and fully editable by Drag and Drop Tree - everything can be easily organized in logical hierarchies and delimited groups; unlike in other similar tools every node can be a parent for any other node, all items can be freely reordered to specify priority or importance. And all of this can be done not only with somewhere saved links - but with open tabs and windows!

☀ Close and save - just in one click you can preserve “in place” any tab or window in their original context and surrounding in the Tree. Saved windows and tabs can be freely mixed with those that are open. And as Tabs Outliner window is often active all the time, because it’s enormously useful to observe all currently active items, things saved in it does not fall out of the focus, as this often happen with other tools that save everything in some separate lists, so the actual action to close-save something to free resources become mentally much ease and really accomplished.

☀ Innovative Tabs Outlining And Organizing Features – you will be able annotate windows and tabs, add comments to them, summary of main ideas, to-do items. Text notes can be easily added in the Tree directly from web pages, just by Drag and Drop.

☀ Tree Style Tab feature - those who remember famous Firefox plugin with the same name immediately recognize inspired by it very useful way to relate tabs to one another. This feature relates newly opened tabs to the tab from which they were opened, which automatically builds strong context for all items and nicely visualize tabs relations.

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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Good data model for organizing tabs and projects
  • Useful for saving state across multiple devices
  • Has potential for a great UI with proper updates
  • Unique approach to managing tabs
  • Helps in keeping tasks organized with notes and widows
Cons
  • Extension frequently breaks after Chrome updates
  • Developer support is lacking or non-responsive
  • Many users report losing saved tabs and data
  • User interface can feel clunky and outdated
  • Overall neglect and limited updates by the developer
Most mentioned
  • Extension appears abandoned with frequent bugs and breakages
  • Users unable to recover tabs or access saved sessions
  • Developer communication and support issues
  • Recent updates causing functionality loss
  • Lack of responsiveness from the developer regarding problems
User reviews
tldr; extension is mostly abandoned at this point, but you can recover your saved data in full Unfortunately, it seems like neglect is preventing this extension from being truly the greatest extension. The extension has mostly been coasting for years on being a great tool and hasn't made any serious evolutions since. If it hasn't reached you yet, the more recent chrome updates effectively breaks this extension completely and I have no confidence this will be fixed. Apparently in my case, slowly features (such as local backups and Google drive backups) have been failing. Last drive backup goes back a year, local backup ~6 months... so it seems all is lost and the UI still doesn't load up. Looking at the extension code, it looks like it was refactored for manifest v3, but it's unclear to me how the update broke it. I'd suggest looking for other ways to manage your tabs from now on. With that said, if you are a current user and need to recover your tabs, the backups are a good start, but depending on when it broke for you, it might not be current. You can however recover the tree state as json and you can pick through that. Fortunately it will be in local storage under the key: onViewClose_lastSessionSnapshot 1. Open the extension (it will be blank) 2. Press F12 to open devtools 3. In the console tab, make sure the context (the dropdown on the top left) is set to "top" 4. Enter the command: console.log(localStorage.getItem('onViewClose_lastSessionSnapshot')) This will dump the json (which should be significantly large) to the console which you can copy to file and recover your data.
by Jeff Mercado, 2025-01-13

It has a very good data model even though the UI looks clunky. If the developer teams with a UI designer and a good growth lead, this can be turned into a significant product with a ton of revenue I am sure. Only request to the developer for now is to keep it updated as chrome changes versions and code standards.
by Senthil Gandhi, 2025-01-10

I've used Tabs Outliner every day for years. It's a fantastic way to save tabs across time & multiple devices. I use it to save state on the many different projects I'm working on at the same time. It breaks at least once a year, and the developer doesn't do a great job of communicating issues or helping folks fix things. But, I've always found a way to fix it, so if you're somewhat technical you should be able to fix it. Eventually. Probably. YMMV? Overall, I love this extension and would personally rate it 5 stars. It's buggy, and occasionally stops working, but for a reasonable one time fee it's had quite a positive impact on my life.
by Jennifer Winer, 2025-01-02
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Tabs Outliner requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Tabs Outliner has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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