tab2text

Turn your open tabs into a plaintext list of URLs. Update the list of URLs to change your open tabs.

What is tab2text?

tab2text is a Chrome extension that allows you to turn your open tabs into a plaintext list of URLs. It provides various usage ideas such as editing existing tab lists, generating and opening a list of URLs at once, and quickly sharing your open tabs. You can also add a keyboard shortcut for quick access. Give tab2text a try and make managing your tabs easier!

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Extension stats

By: mikhuang

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Users: 94 ▼ -2

Rating: 5.00 (1)

Version: 1.0.1 (Last updated: 2016-12-16)

Creation date: 2016-12-16

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

tabs

Size: 29.61K

Ranking

# 69256 ▼ 640

Other rankings

#30306 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 57 #207 in text editor keyword 14 ▼ 3

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Extension summary

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Want to edit your currently opened tabs as plaintext? Now you can.

Usage ideas:

Take existing list of tabs, copy it into your text editor, futz with it, then back into the browser
Generate a list of URLs with text editor, application, whatever. Paste it in, open everything at once
Sharing your currently opened tabs quickly in whatever application
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Pro tip:

Add a keyboard shortcut to open the window quickly! Go to:

More Tools > Extensions > Keyboard Shortcuts (all the way on the bottom), and add something like Command+Ctrl+T

User reviews

Super useful for archiving my ongoing research for later in my notes, so I can come back exactly where I left off! I also love how it doesn't show up in the Chrome Task Manager unless I actively click on it, so I know it's not just wasting RAM.