TabSorter2
A Simple Tab Manager - Merge, Sort, Shuffle, Save/Load
I do not have much to show for all the long evenings/nights spent on this project. But I can say that it has been and still is a very fun journey of discovery. At first, I simply wanted to sort my 300+ open tabs in a specific way and realized that the extensions out there were not doing what I needed: fast sort without crashing my browser. That's when the fun began.
I discovered the wonderful world of browser APIs. Where things never quite work the way you would expect and tiny quirky bugs are sometimes, features in the making 😄.
Pretty soon I started to have some interesting back and forth with myself...
"Can I do this? Oh, really I can?? Ok, what about this? Cool!"
It went a bit like this... ( you may skip this part)
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Can I like take a bunch of tabs and move them somewhere else without losing anything? Yup
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Can I make them dance around just for fun? Sure
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Can I make them disappear and reappear for a time and reappear later? Huh.. who knew... ok
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Can I split a window into multiple ones and move them side by side without killing my browser? easy... but what if there are multiple monitors... kinda sorta easy 😅
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What about merging all windows into 1 and making sure that there are no duplicate tabs? Huh, interesting...
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Ok let's say for some reason I have 500 tabs opened for the past week (yes I know.. don't say it..) and I know I have the same website opened probably 50 times across 35 windows... could I close all 50 at once without having to find them individually?
... Now why would you even... you know what Yes. Yes, you can ... -
Can I just save all my tabs to a file and reload them if needed? N... Yes!
Basically, every time I encountered something that would frustrate me or slow me down, I would try to figure out how to simplify my life and enhance my browsing experience. This has been the driving force behind TabSorter2. ( Also Yeah TabSorter was already taken 😆 so I came up with the brilliant idea to slap a 2 at the end... Mission Accomplished!! The self-inflicted nightmare that ensued was quite entertaining... but a good and fun learning experience. While things have not always been rosy, working on Tabsorter2 has been very fun for me and I feel like the journey is only beginning as I'm now learning about design principles and marketing and content writing ( the latter is evidently a WIP).
I'm currently working on behavioral automation for TabSorter2 and will keep you guys updated.
If you would like to try TabSorter2 you can do so with the following link
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabsorter2/lmmmdnmgmgnimgcfbnomdgeldehlfafn
Or visit this Github for documentation: https://github.com/Mimieam/TabSorter2
I would love to get some feedback regarding how to improve along the Journey 🖖🏾
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