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Discussion - Set Aside Tabs and Warn on Close
Why not combine Set Aside Tabs with Collections. Save all open tabs to a new collection and have the option to reopen them all from there at a later time. Best of both worlds. By the way I love the Collection feature.
Jacques Van de Meerssche This is a great idea and would solve my problem (the jarring workflow to restore tabs closed from a browser exit). I think it's also a good introduction to collections for all users. You could even built a mini tutorial in there the first time the user closes the browser -- on the next open, a pop-up with "we've put all the tabs you had open in a collection in case you need them".
That makes the most sense to me, especially since the "continue where I left off" option in the "On Startup" settings page doesn't work that way (seems to only restore tabs if the browser was force-closed).
[EDIT] Apologies, didn't check the date -- I see the feature was sort-of implemented in one of the latest dev releases. Haven't had my coffee yet...
- You can right-click on Edge top bar and select "reopen closed window" or use the CTRL + Shift + T shortcut.
that will restore your previous tabs if they were all in the same window.HotCakeXThanks for guiding everyone on how to push through request. I'll say what I said on other topics here. I really don't like how collections work compared to "set these tabs aside" it was simpler to use that way and whatever you do you can save quickly.. Now if you close out of tabs you no longer need you have to save/update the collection again. The set aside remembered what changed you did to the tabs you re-opened. Collections isn't doing that currently.
As other said, it might make more sense to combine the two things. The idea of collections was to allow it to be opened on other systems. Well just make that possible for set tabs aside. Firefox, Chrome and all those browsers do updates regularly. Edge should do the same and keep introducing new features on every version, but a little at a time so users can be trained on how to use them. They all started with just a few key features that made them stick out and built on it.
BTW there is at least 3 topics that I know of on this, which one matters the most to development. Is it this one?
Jacques Van de Meerssche Yeah, that would work!
My usual scenario is I have a biz task or I learn some topic, so I have multiple tabs open for this topic. And usually, you get distracted or you just have to go and do some other stuff... or you just need to go back to work 🙂 so you have to close all those tabs and open those related to work 🙂
Seriously though, this is a VERY needed feature as people may have multiple "scopes" (or slices) of browsing and they have different contexts! So help us switching the context easily please!
Jacques Van de Meerssche The collections feature is useful, but compared to the set tabs aside feature, it feels slow and cramped. Also in set tabs aside, I can scroll sideways to see the tabs that are in that collection instead of having to open it like in collections.
- If they want to add all tabs to a collection, they should still put a button for 1 click action to add all tabs into a collection.
I think Jacques is really onto something.
Fully agree.TBH, I never use the Collections feature because I can't export anything there to my current note-taking application (Notion). But, I would LOVE using Collections for Setting Aside Tabs! And, oooh, could we maybe have opening all the tabs in a Collection at once?
- Maybe if enough people ask for it we could have an export to button that exports to the program or location of our choice
