Tab bundles.

A tab bundle is a named set of tabs, and like everything Wyrd opens, it is a keyword. > /clear research saves the tabs of this window as research and closes them; > tabs/research opens them all again, today or next month.

Prefer a walk-through? Save your tabs and reopen them later goes step by step, with screenshots. This page is the full reference.

Switch it on

Tab bundles is off after install, so the first days stay simple. Switch it on in Wyrd's Features page, or by typing > /clear, which takes you to the switch. Chrome then asks for access to your open tabs, which it words as "Read your browsing history": saving tabs means reading their addresses and titles. Wyrd reads them only when you save, and Turn off on the Tab bundles page gives the access back. Reopening and editing bundles work without it.

Save a window's tabs

• > /clear research saves this window's tabs as research and closes them. One fresh tab stays, because closing the last tab would close the window. Empty new tabs are closed but not kept.
• > /clear with no name is named for you from the date and time, and the suggestion under the address bar shows the name before you press Enter.
• Nothing is closed unless it was saved. If the tabs cannot be saved, they stay open.
• A name already in use is never replaced: a second research becomes research_session_ and the date. Replacing a bundle is something you do on purpose, on the Tab bundles page.
• The message in the address bar after a save says which keyword brings the tabs back.

Save a window's tabs and keep them open

New in 1.2> /snapshot research saves this window's tabs as research and closes nothing: a bookmark of the whole window, for when you want to keep working. > /snapshot alone is named for you, and > /snapshotall takes every window, remembering which tab came from which. Pinned tabs are kept too.

Bring a bundle back

> tabs/research, > tabs research, or > research alone when nothing else is called that (your own keywords and shared lists come first). Bundles reopen in a new window per window they were saved from, or into the current window if you prefer (a setting on the Tab bundles page). Pinned tabs come back pinned. Chrome does not let extensions open its own pages, such as chrome://settings, so those are skipped and counted.

Close duplicate tabs

> /dedupe keeps one tab per site in every window. > /dedupe here does this window only; > /dedupe exact closes only copies of the same page (the same Google Doc whatever follows its id, the same video at another start time). The tab you are on and pinned tabs are never closed. Of the other copies, the one that stays is the one you used last, or the one closest to the site's home page, as you choose. Like /clear, it saves what it closes first, as a bundle of its own, so nothing is lost.

Save one tab

> /save puts the tab in front into today's bundle and closes it. > /save recipe dinner tags it #recipe #dinner; the tags show on the tab and its bundle, and clicking one, or searching #recipe on the Tab bundles page, shows everything with that tag.

Where to find your bundles

• The popup. After /clear or /dedupe, Wyrd's icon shows a ✓ until you open its popup, which lists the bundles you saved in the past week, each as its keyword. Don't show these again turns the ✓ and the list off; a box on the Tab bundles page turns them back on.
• The Tab bundles page lists every bundle with its keyword, number of tabs, date and how it was made. Open one to see its tabs grouped by site. Search, rename, duplicate, delete a tab or a bundle, or make a new bundle from pasted addresses or from tabs you pick. New in 1.2Download CSV there gives every saved tab as a spreadsheet, one row each, for Excel or Google Sheets.
• The side panel stays open while you browse: the recently saved bundles first, then every bundle, each reopened with one click.
• The Keywords page lists bundles as keywords under its Tab bundles chip.

Site icons are not loaded from the web: a letter stands in, so looking at your bundles contacts no site.

Advanced tab bundles

A second switch on the Features page adds > /clearall (every window at once, remembering which tab came from which), dragging tabs between groupings and bundles, renaming groupings, reopening into the current window, exporting and importing bundles as JSON, changing the tabs prefix, keeping pinned tabs open, sites that /clear never closes, and the name format of an unnamed /clear.

On your other computers

Every bundle is kept on the computer that saved it. Your 10 most recent bundles also follow you through your own Chrome sync, so > tabs/research opens on your other computers too. The reason for the 10 is Chrome's: it gives each extension about 100 KB of sync space, with at most 8 KB per item, so each synced bundle carries up to about 6 KB (a very large one syncs its first tabs and says how many stayed behind). Older bundles stay where they were saved; nothing is deleted. The Tab bundles page marks each bundle follows you or this computer only.

Typing > tabs/ and the name of a bundle that is not on this computer opens the Tab bundles page with the reason and what to do, rather than searching the web for it.

Every bundle on every computer

Switch on Google Sheet backup and sync and press Sign in with Google, and every bundle, not only the 10 most recent, is kept in one spreadsheet, Wyrd tab bundles, in your own Google Drive. Press Sign in with Google on each computer, signed in to Chrome with the same Google account, and each one brings in the bundles the others saved.

• Google asks you to let Wyrd see and change only the files it makes in your Drive. Wyrd cannot read anything else there.
• It syncs a few seconds after a bundle changes, when Chrome starts, when you open the Tab bundles page, and when you press Sync now. A bundle changed on two computers at once is kept twice; a bundle you delete in Wyrd is deleted on your other computers too.
• Sign out, or switching the feature off, stops it. The sheet stays in your Drive until you delete it.
• It needs Google Chrome itself: other browsers built on Chrome do not offer Chrome's Google sign-in to extensions.

The same sheet also keeps a daily backup of your keywords: see backups. Without it, export a bundle on one computer and import it on the other (Advanced tab bundles).