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How many browser tabs do you have open right now? If you're like most people who spend their workday in front of a PC or Mac, the answer is probably "too many to count," and you're staring at a row of icons that offer only the faintest clue of what's on the tab associated with each one.
Good luck remembering what's on each page when all you can see are favicons for each tab Screenshot by Ed Bott/ZDNET
When tab overload strikes, the usual cure is to declare tab bankruptcy, close your browser window, and start over. Sometimes your browser even does it for you, unexpectedly (and usually at the most inconvenient time). When that happens, you end up scrolling through your browser's history to pick up where you left off or searching frantically to find that factoid you need for the report that's due before the end of the day.
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But I found a better way.
More than just a tab manager
Plenty of browser extensions promise to help you manage too-many-tabs syndrome, but most just offer an alternative view of all your open tabs -- lists or thumbnails, for example -- instead of tiny favicons. And they don't do a thing to help you keep all those tabs organized.
That's where a remarkable web-based service called Workona shines. It offers a simplified way to view and organize browser tabs and bookmarks into separate groups (called spaces) that you can organize by project, category, date, or whatever strikes your fancy. The following screenshot, for example, shows a group of tabs and resources I saved when researching streaming music services.
A Workona space contains open tabs and bookmarks (called resources) that can be saved for later use. Screenshot by Ed Bott/ZDNET
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