I also cannot stand to have a million bajillion tabs open either. Unfortuately, I am VERY guilty of this. I leave a tab open because I won't remember it if I close it. I leave a tab open because I work on it daily. I leave a tab open because I know I will have to refer to it in a meeting today, tomorrow, or next week. I'd rather have a million bajillion tabs open than a million bajillion bookmarks, cause at least I know I can close the tabs. The bookmarks...I'm too lazy and they will stay there for eternity.
Knowing that I have a problem with tabs (the first step is acknowledging it right) I decided to do something about it today. This summer I went to a Google Summit in Charleston, SC. One of the presenters, Chris Craft, talked about Chrome Extensions. So I busted out my black and white composition notebook (yup I like to take notes old school) and looked up what he had suggested. There it was, beautifully printed "One Tab: put multi tabs in one page ---> multiple links to share w/ students".
So I downloaded One Tab. And in 5 minutes, I had downloaded, figured it out, and my life is now changed! I hear the angels singing above my head as I do a little happy dance in my seat.
Once you download One Tab, you click on it and it absorbs all the tabs for that page and closes it. I organized my tabs on each page - work, social, articles to read, etc. - so I did this for approximately 5 open windows. Holding my breath (because at this point EVERYTHING IS GONE!!!) I opened a new empty window and clicked on the One Tab icon on my extension bar (or whatever that area is called) and it showed me a list with all my windows and all the tabs that were open under each window. I could restore or delete any of them!
Those angels singing became a frickin' choir!!!
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