Slate - Window per Project

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Tired of mixing 50 tabs from 5 projects in one Chrome window?

Slate gives each project its own Chrome window. It saves your tabs, tab groups, and pinned tabs - and restores everything exactly when you switch back.

━━━ FEATURES ━━━

✦ One Chrome window per project
Closing the window saves the tab set. Reopening the project restores it - same tabs, same groups, same pinned state, same active tab.

✦ Tab groups preserved
Group titles, colors, and collapsed state survive the round trip.

✦ Pinned tabs preserved
Pinned state restored on reopen.

✦ Active tab restored
The tab that was active when you last closed the window is reactivated.

✦ Toolbar badge per window
Each project's initials show on the toolbar in its color, so you always know which project window you're in.

✦ Side panel manager
Rename, reorder (drag & drop), change icons and colors, delete projects - all in Chrome's built-in side panel.

✦ Icon picker
Choose from 335 curated Lucide icons, or upload your own image (PNG, JPG, SVG, WebP up to 512 KB).

✦ Import / export
Move your projects between machines as a JSON file.

✦ Optional CLI
A small bash wrapper lets you control Slate from the terminal:
    slate open "Work"
    slate close "Work"
    slate list

━━━ WHY SLATE ━━━

Most tab managers store sessions you have to manually restore. Slate ties projects to Chrome windows, auto-saves on every change, and treats your work as named workspaces - not just bookmarks.

If you've tried One Tab, Session Buddy, or Workona and felt they were either too heavy (whole separate UI) or too light (just a list of saved sessions), Slate is the middle ground: each project lives in its own real Chrome window, the way Chrome was meant to be used.

━━━ PERMISSIONS ━━━

Slate requests only what it needs:

- tabs, tabGroups - read URLs, titles, pinned state, and group metadata so they can be saved and restored
- storage - save projects locally on your device via chrome.storage.local
- sidePanel - show the project manager in Chrome's side panel

No host permissions. No content scripts. No network access.

━━━ PRIVACY ━━━

100% local. No accounts. No servers. No telemetry. No analytics.

Slate makes zero outbound network requests. Your projects, tabs, and icons live in chrome.storage.local on your device. They are never uploaded, sold, or shared.

Full privacy policy: https://slate.babintsev.com/privacy

━━━ OPEN SOURCE ━━━

MIT licensed. Source code, issue tracker, and CLI installer:
https://github.com/alexbabintsev/slate

━━━ REQUIREMENTS ━━━

Google Chrome 119 or newer (uses per-window action APIs).