I Built Afey Tabs to Stop Losing My Browser Tabs

Have you ever opened your browser to work on one thing, only to end up with dozens of tabs open?

Documentation, GitHub issues, tutorials, dashboards, research pages—and somehow, all of them feel important.

Closing the browser feels risky. Keeping everything open makes it harder to focus. And when you need to return to a specific task later, finding the right group of tabs can become a task of its own.

I wanted a simpler way to handle this problem, so I built Afey Tabs.

🔗 Try it: https://afeytabs.amwafy.xyz

What is Afey Tabs?

Afey Tabs is a Chrome extension that helps you save related browser tabs into named workspaces and restore them when you need them again.

The idea is simple: instead of keeping every tab open all day, save the tabs related to a task and return to them later.

For example, you could create workspaces such as:

• Web Development — documentation, GitHub, and testing tools
• Learning — tutorials, articles, and course materials
• Research — references, reports, and useful resources
• Personal Projects — the pages you need for your next coding session

Each workspace gives those tabs a place to belong.

What can it do?

Afey Tabs focuses on a small set of practical features:

• Save tabs: Save eligible tabs from your current browser window.
• Choose what to save: Select specific eligible tabs or save all eligible tabs.
• Create named workspaces: Organize saved tabs around projects or tasks.
• Add a note: Keep one optional, editable note with each workspace.
• Restore tabs: Reopen the saved tabs when you're ready to continue.
• Manage workspaces: Delete workspaces you no longer need.
• Export a backup: Export your workspace data as JSON.

It is intentionally focused on doing one job: helping you keep your browsing organized so you can return to your work more easily.

Privacy matters

I wanted Afey Tabs to keep its data handling straightforward.

Workspace data is stored locally in the browser using chrome.storage.local. The extension does not require an Afey Tabs account or a cloud-sync service.

You can also export your workspace data as a JSON backup.

One important note: local storage is not the same as encryption. Exported backups may contain the URLs and notes you've saved, so keep those files somewhere appropriate.

Why build another productivity tool?

There are plenty of productivity apps already.

But sometimes, I don't need a full task manager or another place to manage my projects. I just need to save the browser context I was working in and come back to it later.

That is the problem Afey Tabs is designed to address.

I also wanted to build something focused, useful, and small enough to improve through real feedback rather than adding features just for the sake of having them.

What's next?

I'm sharing Afey Tabs with the developer community to get feedback and learn how people actually organize their browser sessions.

I'd love to hear from you:

• How do you manage browser tabs when working on multiple projects?
• Do you use separate browser profiles, bookmarks, tab groups, or another tool?
• What would make a lightweight workspace manager more useful to you?

If you try Afey Tabs, let me know what works for you and what could be better.

🔗 Afey Tabs: https://afeytabs.amwafy.xyz

💻 Source code: https://github.com/afeemuhammodwafy1/afeylabs

I'm Afee Muhammod Wafy, founder and software developer at Wafyro Software. Thanks for reading!