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by blackrock 1999 days ago
I open a new window to research a specific topic. Then I open up all the links on sub tabs.

This encloses all my research for this subject in one window. Often times I have upwards of 10+ windows opened. Since some of the work spans over several days or weeks.

I also take screenshots of relevant information. Which gets automatically labeled by date and time into a screenshot folder, and sub-sorted into months.
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tveyben 1999 days ago
This is where I miss to be able to name each group-of-tabs (the window) with a name so I can manage (eg when alt-tab’ing) quickly.

So window ‘topic-1’ have 10 tabs relating to ‘topic-1’ and the property ‘topic-1’ is visible in my WM.

Is this possible (I have not -yet - searched ‘enough’ for this functionality...)?

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tveyben 1998 days ago
I am very happy to have shared my thoughts here (and received good feedback and suggestions!), but the best is that it finally made me look into this need - and I am not the first (big surprise :-)

It turns out that just very recently exactly what I need was made possible in Chrome (currently only "experimental") just set this flag [1]. I especially like that it's possible without the need of third party SW.

This page [2] is what alerted my attention to the solution.

NB.: It does make me wonder why this feature have not existed until now as it seems so obvious, I mean ever since the introduction of the TABbed interface in browsers (which started pre 2000 IIRC) the (over-) usage pattern of tabs existed.

Anyway - even if I have missed something pre-existing I am now extremely happy to be able to name my TABS in Chrome!

[1] chrome://flags/#window-naming

[2] https://winaero.com/how-to-name-a-window-in-google-chrome/

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noisy_boy 1999 days ago
I use Window Titler[0] for this because I use the same workflow of opening a new window for each "topic".

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/window-titler...

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catchmeifyoucan 1999 days ago
Try Amna. https://getamna.com.

You can do this per chrome window and bubble the tasks up to a task.

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noisy_boy 1999 days ago
This is exactly how I "partition" my work; makes closing logically related tabs super simple too - just close the window related to the "topic".
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