Elliot Kirk
My idea: can we just integrate a "add all open tabs" button to Collections? It'll sync, it's already been developed, and we can name them, to boot: none of these apply to "Set Tabs Aside", but will accomplish mostly the same thing.
The Problem: I'm stuck on a task waiting on someone else's reply, with this task's associated 8+ tabs. I want a clean browser to begin the next task.
Bad Workaround 1: I could use favorites to save all the tabs in the old task, but those get cluttered and hard to manage, especially for these quick-switch tasks.
Bad Workaround 2: I could open a new window for the new task, but that's a little trickier to navigate with an auto-hide taskbar.
A Solution: a button/shortcut key to send all current tabs to a Collection
Why I like this solution:
- Collections can be named & organized, while Set Aside groups were nameless.
- Collections will sync across devices by default; IIRC, the old Set Aside tabs did not sync.
- It's already been developed in Chromium Edge, reducing developer overhead and bug surface area.
So....we'd just need a new button to add all opens tabs. Currently, adding all open tabs to a collection is painfully slow: it takes a long [2n+2] amount of clicks, where n = number of tabs.
- Click the Collections button
- Click "Start New Collection"
- Add current tab.
- Switch to next tab. Repeat from step 3 for each new tab.
Adding just five tabs means 12 clicks. I'd could happily use a "Set Aside" button that essentially used the Collections backend: i.e., send all open tabs to a New Collection.
