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Tabs Outliner

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Next Generation Session, Windows, Tabs Manager and a TooManyTabs Solution That Really Works.

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  • FreemiumProprietary

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Platforms

  • Google Chrome
4.6 / 5 Avg rating (7)
66 likes
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  1.  Tree view
  2.  Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
  3.  Tree structure
  4.  Crash recovery
  5.  Automatic Backup
  6.  Tab Manager
  7.  Session Management
  8.  Information gathering
  9.  Personal Information Manager (PIM)
  10.  Tabbed browsing
  11. Google Drive icon  Google Drive integration
  12.  Bookmark Organization

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Tabs Outliner information

  • Developed by

    Vladyslav Volovyk
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    free version with limited functionality.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.6
  • Alternatives

    69 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 7 comments and reviews about Tabs Outliner, and it has gotten 66 likes

Tabs Outliner was added to AlternativeTo by omnray on Aug 14, 2012 and this page was last updated Apr 19, 2024.

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James
  
Top positive comment
Pending approval • Edited May 2, 2023

[May 2023 Update Below!]


Dec 2017 Review:

This is easily my favorite extension ever; I think it's criminally underrated.

Here's why I love it: As someone who regularly uses around 20-180 simultaneous tabs across 2-4 Chrome windows during a single browsing session, Tabs Outliner has let me do so much more to track & organize my browsing. There is a learning curve, & sometimes the task of organizing archives of tabs can be quite daunting (I have 25,000 pages saved from over the years), but having the ability to store & rearrange them all is what makes it even possible in the first place, & that's exactly what Tabs Outliner does. In my opinion, there's no contest; Tabs Outliner demolishes rivals like LastTab, TooManyTabs, TheGreatSuspender, etc. Extensions like OneTab & Session Buddy show some promise & have some partial appeal over Tabs Outliner, but I still honestly think they don't even come close. The other extensions unfortunately don't have nearly the same level of functionality as Tabs Outliner. I purchased the premium version a while ago, & it's been completely worth it, even for a frugal soul like myself. It's a one-time payment to register your email/account as a premium user; I paid ~$15. The functions, shortcuts, & online backups for paid users are great.

As awesome as I think Tabs Outliner is, I am still hoping for some improvements. The developer seems like a respectable guy, though the development process seems like it's been too slow for quite a while now. I think the extension still has a lot more potential, & I really want it to be realized. Here are some things that could be added: Native bulk/multi-selection options would be great. Shift-clicking & Ctrl-clicking entries to move or delete them could be used to make the organization process much smoother/faster. I would love to see a native filtering & searching function, & a sorting functionality. Preferably, these features would be applicable to large trees of windows & would run reasonably quickly. This would save me a huge amount of time when organizing my tab trees. I'd also like a more customizable export feature that allows the user to set the format of the pages exported. Currently, I end up using a lot of text processing programs to help sort out my archives, but the process feels tedious & can be frustrating. Native sorting/searching, bulk selecting, or maybe custom exporting could help remedy this issue. Despite some things not (yet) included, Tabs Outliner is still very helpful & gets my full recommendation; the way I see it, Tabs Outliner is a must-have for Chrome power-users/browsing fans & is likely also very helpful for people who don't use chrome on nearly the same scale.


May 2023 Update:

Tabs Outliner is great, & I generally stand by this review; the 5-star rating holds up. However, partially catalyzed by my switching from Chrome to Firefox, I've been using OneTab for the last few years. OneTab is free & has been easier to work with, especially because it directly exports in my preferred "URL | Title" format for easy .txt archival & processing via VS Code commands/extensions & Python/Pandas. (For the curious, my latest SiteList.txt file is ~6.77MB with ~66,000 URLs post-filtering)

As always, be sure to export/backup to local files regularly in case of random data loss.

Extra Programs:

FoxyTab on Firefox enables custom shortcuts for instant merging, sorting, & de-duping of live tabs & windows. (I use [Ctrl+Alt+] A, S, D, respectively)

uBlock Origin, in addition to being likely the best extension ever in its own right, enables custom filters to auto-trim certain URLs, e.g. "||www.google.$removeparam=client". Helps keep archives cleaner.

CopyQ is just fantastic whenever the clipboard is involved.

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slmingol
  
Top negative commentNov 1, 2016

I was very disappointed to see that this app is now basically trying to shake everyone down for $15 by disabling the right context menu, keyboards etc. I get you have to make a living but I'm now uninstalling this. This app is useful but has always been wonky and worked...OK...and I tolerated it's bugs for the simple fact that it kept my list of active tabs opened, and I could move tabs to a folder, but there is no way this is worth the hefty price of $15, IMO.

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suebrett
  
Positive commentApr 25, 2023

Tabs Outliner is so much more than a tabs manager. I agree with all the positive comments here. It is totally worth the $15 lifetime upgrade for extra features, but free mode is well worth trying. Once you get used to it, you'll want to upgrade!

This tool helps you to save, label and organise browser sessions for each research topic really easily. Sure, there's a learning curve, but then a tool that has so much depth to it is bound to take a little getting used to.

One needs to be disciplined about deleting unwanted tabs at the end of a session, otherwise collections can easily become unmanageable. I am at the stage where I need to spend a lot of time pruning and reorganising. However, the clone view is a really neat feature that allows dragging and dropping between trees.

My main complaint is that it's only available on Chrome. I would like to make Firefox or Safari my go-to browser, but can't bear to lose access to my tabs collections on Tabs Outliner!

So Vladyslav, if you develop Tabs Outliner to work on other platforms, I'll happily pay an extra subscription.

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Greenskid
  
Positive commentMar 20, 2021

I like it because it is a rock solid extension that has never caused me any issues. It is unnoticeable in the background silently doing its work, and when needed it is right there, ready for action. I use it as a backup of my current browsing sessions, and to name and save interesting sessions based on the specific topic/workflow. It is providing me with a very low management cost knowledge database.

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andreaskallberg
  
Positive commentJun 3, 2020

It's an extremely flexible extension that not only allows you to organize your tabs in many ways, but also take structured notes associated with them.

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stewartmartin
  
Positive commentNov 17, 2019

I have not been able to find an alternative to Tabs Outliner that has all, or even most, of the features I find most critical. It's essentially the main reason I stick with Chrome instead of moving back to Firefox (or maybe Opera?)

[Edited by stewartmartin, November 17] How I use Tabs Outliner

I frequently have many tabs and windows open. If I'm deep in research about some particular topic, or multiple topics, I may end up with over a hundred open tabs. Without tabs outliner, this could become a nightmare, or at least a waste of time and frustration. But with Tabs Outliner, I can easily keep things organized and under control.

  1. The first critical thing Outliner does is show me exactly how many tabs I have open, so I know if they're getting out of control.

  2. Outliner allows me to easily clean up tabs by closing or saving tabs in the Tabs Outliner Window

  3. The tabs Outliner window shows me all tabs on all windows including open ones and saved ones, all in one place.

  4. From the Outliner window I can easily reorganize those tabs to keep everything organized, giving me one place that I can move tabs to different windows, instead of having to open up all of those windows and manually drag tabs between windows.

  5. If, heaven forbid, chrome crashes or otherwise doesn't shut down properly, all of those tabs are saved in tabs outliner. This does mean that if I choose to restore tabs through chrome, I will have duplicates, but I usually choose not to restore them through chrome and restore them manually through outliner instead.

  6. If for some reason I need to shut things down quickly, and want to save all my tabs I can easily do this by choosing "save and close all open windows" in tabs outliner. This is a critical feature for me, if I ever run out of memory on a pc, because the pc will begin to freeze. Saving and closing all windows allows me to continue to working once the operation is finished, saving me a lot of time and frustration.

  7. I can easily find any saved or open tabs in Tabs Outliner with ctrl-f

  8. I can rename tabs and windows in tabs outliner, but I rarely use this feature.

There are probably other features I don't use, and I could be forgetting a few.

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Guest
  
Positive commentNov 2, 2019

Nothing compares to tabs outliner. It is essentially the only app that acts as both a bookmarks and open tabs manager, and it accomplishes both far better than any bookmark or open tab manager out there. To name just a few specific functionalities that really make it stand out - the speed at which you can drag and reorganize nodes, backing up to google drive, exporting to text, excel, etc., and adding notes, separators, and window groups, are all immensely helpful for productivity. Once you use tabs outliner, you will immediately depend on it. The only things to add that would make it perfect would be if it would allow you to select multiple nodes at once, had a mobile version, could sync across devices, and could optionally utilize a table/database format as opposed to the outline format.

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What is Tabs Outliner?

Next Generation Session, Windows, Tabs Manager and a TooManyTabs Solution That Really Works.

It allow organizing windows and tabs In hierarchies, annotate and comment them, close any tab or window for later in place, then reopen just as you select already open tabs. There is also browser crash resistance capabilities and ability to restore everything after crash with all structure untouched. And the tree style tabs feature, to see relations between tabs.

Must have for everyone who have more than 20 open tabs. And a lifesaver for people who have more than 200.