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Discussion on: Why do you Have Too Many Tabs Opened? An almost imaginary conversation with my 5 years old nephew

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David Williams • Edited

Nice article! May I suggest:

Workona chrome (v8) plugin for tabs and real-time personal or team project and knowledge management and sharing plugin:

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Workona Features

  • Integration with other productivity apps, like Miro, Notion, etc.
  • Full drag-n-drop rearrangement of everything
  • Full-text search (Universal Search - across Workona items, browser bookmarks, web)
  • Arbitrary in-line tagging with any symbol you like via Universal Search
  • Automatic and configurable suspension of unused open tabs (conserving CPU and memory)
  • Immediate edit updates across all of your devices
  • - - - App for iPhone
  • - - - Currently, only browser access on Android, with the only limitation being that links are opened only from Resources. More about this below.)
  • Share only those Workspaces and items you choose to with your team or others
  • Any team-shared folder edits update immediately to all opened team browser sessions

Workona Data Organization
(Multiples of all levels and items below, except where noted)

  • - Master Task Section (lists and manages all tasks across all workspaces)
  • - Templsates (for workspaces, docs, and teams)
  • - Teams
  • - Workspace Sections
  • - - - Workspaces (the four main sections below shown in two configurable panes)
  • - - - - - Tabs Section (just one per workspace)
  • - - - - - Note Sections
  • - - - - - - - Notes (rich-text, code formatting, images, attachments)
  • - - - - - Task Sections
  • - - - - - - - Tasks with due-dates, rich Note
  • - - - - - Resource Sections
  • - - - - - - - Resources (links, folders, documents, descriptions)
  • - Archive (just one for everything)

Effective Tab Management with Workona
The key to effective tab management in Workona that eventually discovered is to open and move tabs around to appropriate workspaces by concept however you desire. When you have finished reading or wish to reference a tab later, save it as a browser bookmark and/or save it as a resource in an appropriately named resource section in the current and optionally other workspaces. Once saved as a resource, the link is always there, so you can close the tab.

Keep a Clean Workspace
When your research session for the work period or day is done, and you've deposited important tabs as resources, you can close all tabs by clicking the Close All button in the Tabs Menu of the current workspace. You can reopen single resource tabs or reopen all tabs in a resource section by clicking Open All in the resource section menu.

Restore Workspace to Previous State
If you accidentally close tabs or they happen to disappear after a browser restart (only happened to me once), you can return any workspace to a previous state in the history of tab changes in that workspace by browsing the workspace's history via the Restore Tabs function in the workspace menu.

Saving to and Restoring from Archive
When you are finished with a workspace, you can either delete it or move it to the Archive. Workspaces that are archived can be restored at any time; naturally, deleted workspaces are unrecoverable.

Special Usage Notes for Workona on Android

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On Android, you navigate your browser to the Workona website and log in. All of your workspaces and contents will show. However, if you attempt to click on the Tabs section of a workspace, Workona pops up a message instructing you to install the additional Workona Tabs Manager plugin. Just simply dismiss that message, because if you click the available "ADD TO CHROME" button, it will simply trigger the plugin to be added to your default DESKTOP chrome-based browser. Again, dismiss ("CANCEL") the message.

Other than not having access to a workspace's open tabs list, you can navigate and perform all other Workona functions, including creating any section or item, and opening tabs from the Resources section. That is one of the reasons why it's a good idea to save important tabs as resources - it's the only way to open your Workona tabs on Android. Conveniently, Workona opens resource links as group tabs, so all of your Workona-sourced tabs stay nicely associated. If you desire to save new tab research to Workona on Android, just copy and add the URL as a resource.

My preference, working with the Brave browser on desktop and Android, is to quickly save new research tabs to Brave's Reading List (sync'd across devices) by tapping "Add to reading list" in the browser menu. then later on desktop, open the research tabs from the reading list and deposit them in appropriate workspace resource sections.

My Workona Experience
In my research for my current project, conducted over the past six months using Workona, I effectively have hundreds to over a thousand pages nicely organized and annotated with notes, images, attachments, tasks, arbitrary tags, and other resources, easily searchable with full-text Universal Search, and easily shareable with and maintained by my team or anyone I wish to collaborate with.

My tablet and phone are Android-based, so the limitation mentioned above regarding the Android app not yet available, applies to my usage.

I use Workona as my "current project" focus tool. Though Workona is completely capable of replacing/supplanting browser bookmarks, I still save what I consider long-term or critical planning URLs as browser bookmarks. Just now, I chuckled, asking myself "Why?" Mmm... habit I guess, and maybe fear of losing a critical tab. Come to think of it... a glimpse of Workona's Settings panel, with the "Export Data" section visible:

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Workona: Very efficient. Very effective. EXTREMELY helpful.

And, no, I have no affiliation with the company; just a happy, more organized user.

(Haha... I suppose I should go ahead and make this a post.)