SignalTabs: Tab Workspace

About

SignalTabs is a local-first Chrome tab manager and new tab workspace for people who work with too many tabs open.

Instead of scanning a crowded tab strip, open a new tab and see your current browser state organized into a readable workspace. SignalTabs helps you group tabs by domain, clean duplicate tabs, save tabs for later, and restore closed tabs when cleanup goes too far.

What SignalTabs helps you do:

- Organize open tabs by domain across Chrome windows
- Spot duplicate tabs and close the extras while keeping one copy
- Keep important tabs pinned and visible
- Save useful pages for later before closing them
- Restore recently closed tabs from Archive
- Search open tabs, saved items, bookmarks, and history with a keyboard shortcut
- Use light, dark, or auto theme mode
- Choose how long Archive items are kept

SignalTabs is built for browser-heavy work:

- engineers managing docs, GitHub, localhost, and AI tools
- designers collecting references and review links
- product managers moving between docs, tickets, and dashboards
- researchers, writers, founders, and operators who live in Chrome

Why people use SignalTabs:

- Bookmarks are too permanent for pages you only need later.
- Leaving everything open makes the browser harder to scan.
- Duplicate tabs waste attention and screen space.
- A new tab page can be a useful tab organizer, not just an empty screen.

SignalTabs is local-first by default:

- No account required
- No tab data uploaded by default
- No server-side tab sync layer
- Settings, saved items, and archive state stay in Chrome extension storage and related browser APIs

SignalTabs is not a heavy session manager or a knowledge base. It is designed to help you see the mess, clean duplicates, save what matters, find it again, and get back to work.