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Elliot Kirk
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Jan 21, 2020

Discussion - Set Aside Tabs and Warn on Close

Hi Insiders, we have received a lot of feedback about how you would like to close your tabs with the option of easily finding and reopening them later as you move between different workflows. Specifi...
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ikjadoon
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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:
  1. Collections can be named & organized, while Set Aside groups were nameless.
  2. Collections will sync across devices by default; IIRC, the old Set Aside tabs did not sync.
  3. 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.

 

  1. Click the Collections button
  2. Click "Start New Collection"
  3. Add current tab.
  4. 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. 

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cjc2112
Bronze Contributor
Jan 22, 2020

ikjadoon I personally like how they were named with the date because if i just want to save a session, its not just another "new collection".

  • Jacques Van de Meerssche's avatar
    Jacques Van de Meerssche
    Steel Contributor
    Jan 23, 2020

    So instead of defaulting to "New Collection" with the option to enter your own description MS could just default to the current date as a name instead.cjc2112 

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      ikjadoon
      Bronze Contributor
      Jan 23, 2020

      Jacques Van de Meerssche cjc2112 

       

      I do see the value of having the date perhaps with a name. Another idea: maybe all collections can automatically have their creation date next to them, in the nice friendly date version that Edge uses, i.e., "Six days ago" or "15 minutes ago"? 

       

      And if you don't set a title, it just has the friendly date.

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