TabMan

Web extension to enforce tab organization rules.

Terminology

Project

A collection of tab groups for a specific project (eg. Math class). All tasks within a project start with the same emoji/word and share a group color. Can only make as many projects as there are colors available (9)

Task

An idea or subtask within a project (eg: homework 12, ). All projects within a task are enforced to be adjacent. Only one task group can be expanded at a time

Uncategorized tab

Tab that belongs to neither a project nor task. Are enforced to be to the right of all projects/tasks (unless pinned)

Features

Creating a new tab

• Are added to the immediate right of current tab (unmodified behavior places at far right)
• Press control T once to create a new tab in the current task
• Press control T twice to create a new task in the current project
• Press control T thrice to make uncategorized tab

Managing projects & tasks

• press control + L or click the omnibox
• type l then press tab to activate the TabMan command palette
• press space to show suggestions

Text list of commands

• Map : automatically redirect this tab when visited in this project, to . Will create a bookmark folder with title linking to
• Open : opens an archived project
• Close <"forever"?>: close this project and bookmarks all the tabs & tasks in nested folders. If "forever" included, will not make bookmarks
• color : change the color of this project
• emoji : change the emoji of this project
• new <color?>: create a new project
• recov: (mapped to searching too) Opens the page with tabs and groups that have been auto-closed from the current project
• task : create a new task in the current project from selected tabs

Developing

1. Install dependencies with pnpm i
2. Start typescript compilation with pnpm dev (watch mode) or pnpm build (once)
3. load unpacked extension from dist directory