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A tab-overload story

You didn't open
6 tabs on purpose.

It happened one “I'll read this later” at a time. TabStacker is the extension that stacks the pile back into folders — and keeps it there. Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, any Chromium browser.

Add to Chrome — free Watch the 2-min demo

Scroll to open the story

Chapter 01 — The pile

It starts with one tab you didn't want to lose.

6

Tabs open

chrome://tabs — you have too many

3 duplicates

Jira · SPR-241

How does Jira work?

CRM pipeline

Workflow docs

React tutorial 3/7

Indeed — PM roles

Gmail (14)

Notion — notes

Slack — #design

Stack Overflow

Figma — handoff v4

Calendar — 1:1

Sheets — budget

YouTube — lo-fi mix

LinkedIn — recruiter

Zoom — standup

Medium — 12 min read

Amazon — cart (3)

Jira · SPR-241

CRM pipeline

Docs — Q3 plan

React tutorial 4/7

Gmail — draft

Docs — retro

Morning. Six tabs, all of them load-bearing. This is fine.

Lunch. Every question spawns three more tabs, and none of them get closed.

4pm. The titles are gone. You have the same page open three times and you can't tell.

Chapter 02 — The cost

Every open tab splits your attention.

Research shows a browser with 12 open tabs gives each task just 8% of your focus. The daily receipt below adds up.

Focus per task

100%

1 task · full attention12 tabs · a twelfth each

The daily receipt

Hours staring at a browser5–8h

Tabs you can still read12

Duplicates of the same page×3

Tabs you'll actually return to9

Total, paid in focusa whole day

Chapter 03 — The evidence

We stopped guessing and asked 48 people.

Maria ran three long interviews. Lisa turned the stories into a survey. What came back split the audience into two personas — and gave us the feature list.

Interview 02 · tech industry · 6–8h/day

“When switching between tabs, I found myself having three of the same tabs open at once. This was an indication for me that I overworked.”

She needs several related tabs at once — a CRM pipeline, two workflows — and loses her place between them.

Field notes

3

interviews

48

survey responses

2

personas

4

core features shipped

Survey · daily screen timen = 0

9–12 hours0%

5–8 hours0%

Feel only "somewhat productive"0%

Persona 01

Needs a tool, today

Persona 02

Will try one, if it earns it

Chapter 04 — The fix

Everyone we asked lived in the browser. So we built it into the browser.

TabStacker installs from the Chrome Web Store and runs on any Chromium browser. Sign in with Google, and the pile becomes stacks: folders, click analytics, tab timers and a hard limit you set yourself.

ChromeEdgeBraveArcOperaVivaldi

The two-minute version

Watch it stack.

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01 · See everything

Every open tab, on one readable screen

Favicons you can see, titles you can read, and a close button next to each one. Jump straight to a tab or kill the three duplicates you didn't know you had.

Favicon listOne-click jumpClose in place

02 · Stack it

Save tabs into folders you'll actually reopen

Work, Job hunt, Learning — group the related ones, close the window without fear, and restore the whole context in a click.

03 · Know the truth

The tabs you keep going back to

TabStacker counts clicks inside your folders and charts your most-visited tabs across all of them. Evidence, not vibes.

04 · Set the boundary

Time limits per tab. A hard cap on the total.

Give a distraction twenty minutes and TabStacker holds you to it. Set a maximum tab count and the next one waits until you close something.

Tab limit10 / 12

Two left before the wall.

05 · After dark

Dark mode, for hour nine

Every screen ships in dark. Same stacks, same limits, same analytics — just easier on eyes that have been open since 9am.

Chapter 05 — The calm

Six tabs open. Everything else, stacked.

Work

9 tabs · 2h 14m

Job hunt

6 tabs · 41m

Learning

4 tabs · 1h 02m

47

Before

→

6

After

Nothing was lost. It's all one click away — just not all on screen at once.

You didn't open
6 tabs on purpose.

It starts with one tab you didn't want to lose.

Every open tab splits your attention.

We stopped guessing and asked 48 people.

Everyone we asked lived in the browser. So we built it into the browser.

Watch it stack.

Every open tab, on one readable screen

Save tabs into folders you'll actually reopen

The tabs you keep going back to

Time limits per tab. A hard cap on the total.

Dark mode, for hour nine

Six tabs open. Everything else, stacked.

Four people, one very full tab strip.

Maria Dmitrieva

Lisa Weng

Mudassir Khan

Manas Verma

Close 40 tabs. Keep every thought.

You didn't open6 tabs on purpose.

It starts with one tab you didn't want to lose.

Every open tab splits your attention.

We stopped guessing and asked 48 people.

Everyone we asked lived in the browser. So we built it into the browser.

Watch it stack.

Every open tab, on one readable screen

Save tabs into folders you'll actually reopen

The tabs you keep going back to

Time limits per tab. A hard cap on the total.

Dark mode, for hour nine

Six tabs open. Everything else, stacked.

Four people, one very full tab strip.

Maria Dmitrieva

Lisa Weng

Mudassir Khan

Manas Verma

Close 40 tabs. Keep every thought.

You didn't open
6 tabs on purpose.