[Gambit89]

You might be looking for the Tabs Outliner Extension for Chrome. I've been using it heavily for the "middle-state" of saved and not open, but not bookmarked; now I'm looking for a "meta Tabs Outliner"-esque program, but I can't quite articulate my needs...

> What I want is to maintain a list of current references, preferably with some spatial context (tree-mode browsing is great for this) to what the relationship is between pages in my browser session.

Tabs Outliner puts every tab as a leaf in a tree, and you can nest leaves and affect the visual ordering on the tab bar at the same time - you can also do this reordering while the tab isn't even open! This is good for a while, but for me when I have thousands, it's lacking in some retrieval sense: I guess I want to query for just these tabs that have connections, and cross-reference research annotations on these sets of connections.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqjcrfKjobY

[dredmorbius]

Hrm....

My first impression on watching this is that it's not quite what I'm looking for (tabs open, list grows, they stay loaded) ... but the ability to close tabs then re-access them looks promising.

The outline part is useful.

OK, this might actually be helpful.

The labeling feature would be handier if I could tag/label sets of tabs.

I'm giving this a shot.

Thanks!

[Gambit89]

> The labeling feature would be handier if I could tag/label sets of tabs.

You can! Instead of tagging each tab, you can rename the containing window's "Window" text, as if it was a manilla folder. Windows can also be contained in (named) Groups, allowing for hierarchical categories. Bottom-up tags can be accomplished by adding a note as a tag (I like using #hashtags to differentiate from plain text). In terms of retrievability, Ctrl+F doesn't discriminate!

> the clean-out problem: it's a goddamned pain in the ass to go and sort through the stuff you've tossed in there and clean out the junk.

I forgot to mention a workflow video for that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvlK1ttZ3dI

The dev has mentioned elsewhere that this extension is not (yet) designed to organize, but rather to get a handle on the tens/hundreds/thousands of tabs one may have open. It's done it so well that I have a lot of ad-hoc 'fuzzy' categories and random notes inside my outline I would love to be able to manipulate and build into a grand scheme or other. To use an analogy, it's like a great grafter/sieve to separate the wheat from the chaff, but there's no cooking oven.

[dredmorbius]

Yeah, I'm learning.

I'll still say this wasn't quite what I had in mind, but it may well be good enough in terms of tabs management (there's still the content presentation, but that's another story).

I've been watching the vids, and they're really helpful.

I've given this tool mention on my subreddit (comment so far, story likely to follow) and on G+. After tabbed browsing and competing with vimperator, probably the biggest revolution in browsing I've encountered in 17+ years.

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/256lxu/tabbed_b...

https://plus.google.com/u/0/104092656004159577193/posts/B43j...