I use several different computers and essentially two browsers (Chrome and Firefox) ... suffer from tab clutter. I'd like to find a way to bookmark all my open tabs in one fell swoop to a database in the cloud, preferably organized chronologically and also by tags. Just something to enable me to find what I've browsed before, whatever device/browser I was using. Haven't yet found the ideal solution.

I haven't found any way to bookmark all my open tags to Google Bookmarks, or Delicious, or Diigo.

I've tried syncing bookmarks with Chrome, Firefox ... but Chrome and Firefox don't work with each other. Tried Xmarks - but it's not tag based. Also my Chrome bookmarks got screwed up .. I think it was because I had Chrome and Xmarks sync working at the same time and got in some kind of infinite loop.

any ideas?

I see a number of options, mostly using Firefox and Chrome extensions. I'm not yet very familiar with the Chrome extensions, so here's my take from the side of Firefox:

- Extension Session Manager "saves and restores the state of all windows - either when you want it or automatically at startup and after crashes. It can also automatically save the state of open windows individually." I installed it, and it is quite flexible. You can select where it will save sessions, so you can point it to a Dropbox folder to access from other machines.

- Extension Bookmark Current Tab Set "adds options to bookmark all tabs in a window (optionally without opening a dialog) and store them in a new bookmark folder that is given the current date (and optionally the time) as its name." The benefit here is that you can then export the relevant folder to a simple HTML file, which Chrome too will be able to open.

There is excellent extension appear recently on Chrome Web Store.
Exactly for such situations:

Tabs Outliner
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eggkanocgddhmamlbiijnphhppkpkmkl

It is meantime not synchronize tab trees between different computers, but I am recently wrote to the author and it is assure me that this feature is in active development.

And from what I already see (use it several weeks already) it is much more useful than bookmarks for "too many tabs" situations.

Actually I even start use bookmarks after that for what it is really useful - to reopen often visited sites. And Tabs Outliner for all others use cases for which I use bookmarks in past (I am also a tab whore : )

thanks Alexander and Ra Rem. I will have a look at those extensions.

As far as Firefox is concerned - for managing tabs I have long relied on TabGroups Manager. It gives you a "tab groups toolbar" above the tabs bar - each tab represents a group of tabs. Click on that tabgroup tab, and the tabs in that tabgroup will be displayed on the tabs bar below. (I hope that my explanation make sense!) And when you "bookmark all groups" - it creates a tree of bookmarks in the designated folder - the bookmarked tabs are displayed under their respective tabgroup names. Unfortunately - I have not found anything like it for Chrome.

I had seen Tabs Outliner for Chrome earlier - it looked promising - but the documentation was difficult to understand, obviously by a non-English speaker. But I'm sure I could figure it out with a little time.

I've also been trying out the "Chromicious" or "Delibookmarks" extension for Chrome. Supposedly it syncs your Chrome bookmarks to Delicious. Theoretically, I could use the Chrome "bookmark all tabs" function - and then these bookmarks would get synced to Delicious. But I have not actually seen it work yet - i.e. I haven't seen my Chrome bookmarks show up on Delicious, or my Delicious bookmarks show up in Chrome.

Will keep looking ...

JIM

I had seen Tabs Outliner for Chrome earlier - it looked
promising - but the documentation was difficult to understand, obviously by a
non-English speaker. But I'm sure I could figure it out with a little time.

Hello. I am an author of Tabs Outliner. Yes, a non-English speaker, you right.

Can I ask you what is most difficult to grasp?

I plan completely rewrite documentation, introduce some more screen casts about all features, and you feedback might help a lot for others - I am long ago use this, and for me everything is very obvious, so I really need a fresh look at it all from someone other eyes.

Vladislav

Thanks a lot for a nice words Ra Rem! : )))

Can I ask you how long you use it already and what was most difficult and not obvious at start?

Vladislav

Vladislav - I have read through the explanation again, and now I think I understand it. It really does seem pretty simple and intuitive. I am looking forward to experimenting with Tabs Outliner - a Chrome extension like this has been badly needed.

I do have a few suggestions to start off with, and I'm sure you've heard them -
(1) I think I would like a white background better, easier for me to see.
(2) it would be great if you could highlight a node, and then move it around the tree using keyboard shortcuts. I am sure a lot of people here would agree with me on this!

You could use alt+up to move up, alt+down to move down, alt+right to move right, alt+left to move left.

JIM

Vladislav - I am now experimenting with Tabs Outliner. A few questions.

(1) what is a group and how is it to be used?
(2) I am seeing a number of duplicate windows showing the the same tab nodes. I guess you will be working on a way to clean up duplicates?

I have found the tabs outliner support group - here is a link for people who are interested:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tabs-outliner-support-group

About Group. It is intended to serve as something like folder. Yet actually any node can serve as some sort of folder of course. But group have some special behavior. Basically it is a saved window, yet with fancy icon and a title. This affect how open tabs is treated inside it.

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Difference between Group and Note.
Either can serve as some subfolder on which you can place other nodes. But Group will transform self to open window if you place (or restore) inside it open tabs. Group is actually simple a saved window, with fancy icon and name.

So if you place a Group inside some window and then move some open tabs from this window to it, this tabs will detach self from original window, and will be moved in new one, which appear in place of Group node. Yet if you will do the same with Note, all the tabs will stay in the original window. Try it to better understand.

Basically main usage for Group is to group other windows or nodes. To be a folder. And Note to be a final node, something like PostIt glued to something. Yet them can be used one instead of the other if you want.

Hi Vladislav,

I'm using Tabs Outliner now for a few days and 'ım really excited about it.
I really am curious about any future plans to have a feature to synchronize the saved tabs across computers. I am using a desktop PC and a laptop separately and it would be really great future to be able to synchronize them.

Thanks.