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by benjaminpv 4145 days ago
I find that over time I end up with a bunch of tabs whose content seems interesting that grow over time. My working set is off to one side while the 'to read' tabs stack up over to the left.

I'd found a big boon for this workflow in the very simple extension "Export Tabs[1]." It's really simple: click an icon on the toolbar and it lists open tabs by title and then by URL.

Now when I notice that I've got a real glut of tabs open I dump them into my bookmark software so I can comb through later.

Like I said, really simple extension but tremendously helpful.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/export-tabs/odafag...

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I just released a similar Chrome extension called TabAttack[1]. I would love to hear what you think of it.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabattack/ginflokh...

Instead of exporting tabs as plain text it exports them as Markdown. And it allows you to download the resulting document with one click as a *.md file, instead of having to copy and paste it in an editor.

It also uses the screen real estate in the toolbar a little bit more usefully by showing a tab counter (similar to what Chrome does on mobile).

And of course there are keyboard shortcuts for everything.

Here is my Show HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9047945

In Firefox you can just put them into groups, so they stop being tabs. Later, you can open a whole group when you need it. It's much more organized...
More than being more organized, it's really changed the way I browse. Throughout the day I'll build buckets of things to read/deal with and keeping them in groups makes it incredibly simple (and less stressful) to run through.
I'm old school. My to-read queue goes off to del.icio.us. After all the switches and selling and buying, in the end, it's not half bad. Bookmarklets plus droidicious on Android and I have a dependable bookmark store.
That's amazing! Much easier than managing the mess that is chrome bookmark manager, when you just want to save something for a while and not forever.