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Show HN: Toby the Tab Manager

by rohamg on 9/14/16, 12:24 AM with 5 comments

• by arthurcamara on 9/14/16, 5:24 PM

  Hey guys, I'm Arthur and I developed Toby. The motivation behind Toby was basically to have a UI where I could see all my tabs, organize them, have them "on my face" and treat them as stickers or cards that I could drag around and search through. I think that's the user experience that works for me, it's been helping me a lot and has made me more productive, so I wanted to share with other people who might benefit from it as well:)

  Answering your questions here:

  - About difference between this and bookmarks: well, it all depends on how you use Toby. I've seen people use it as an actual tabs manager, adding and deleting tabs after they're done with it; others using it as a personal to do management board; and others using it as a bookmarking tool. In any case, I think having that type of UI is the biggest benefit and being able to drag around brings a totally different user experience, which I personally prefer. But please let me know how I can improve it even further.

  - About Firefox and Opera: I haven't planned that yet, to be honest, since it's a fairly new project and I'm gathering everyone's feedback, but it would certainly be nice to consider that and expand browser support.

  - About syncing: It's actually already under development and almost done. I'd say I'm 95% done and just need a few tweaks and extra testing before publishing sync with the new release. Yesterday and today we got thousands of new people using Toby and excited about it, so I want to make sure I do it right. I'm sure it's gonna be a super cool new feature.

  Thank you guys for trying it out and please let me know if you have any other feedback, ideas, comments, etc.

• by ebalit on 9/14/16, 9:13 AM

  It's really interesting extension and I would love to use it. Is their any plan to take advantage of the Web Extensions standard to offer this extension on Firefox and Opera too?

• by mackflavelle on 9/14/16, 12:58 AM

  I posted this to Product Hunt today. Even for that typically positive community, the response was so awesome.

• by wingerlang on 9/14/16, 7:37 AM

  Looks nice but what's the difference between this and a folder with bookmarks?

• by fiatjaf on 9/14/16, 11:45 AM

  Why it doesn't sync? Uninstalling.