OneTab: Close Browser Tabs with Peace of Mind

OneTab, a Chrome or Chromium extension that works in the browser to close all tabs. It works for saving up to 95% of the memory (they say), but more importantly for me, it’s the mental clutter: my brain doesn’t think “I need to keep it open” (important), but instead “ah, I have it saved somewhere”, and can go on with life.

This is how it looks when you click the button on the right to close the tabs; they land in the tabs group. You can restore them all, or a single one:

I have already opened four more tabs again; by clicking again, these would disappear like this:

Back in 2018-04-07 I wrote on Tools I Use – Part III | ssp.sh

OneTab is a convenient one. Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, which usually happens pretty fast to me, you can click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can restore them individually or all at once.

When your tabs are in the OneTab list, you will save up to 95% of memory because you will have reduced the number of tabs open in Google Chrome. I usually have my OneTab pinned to Chrome like shown below:

And you know what? This hasn’t changed. Except OneTab got a bunch of improvements, plus I don’t really recover tabs anymore. It’s solely for the brain to let go. It works!

Recently I saw David Perell’s tweet:

And I see why I still use it. But I don’t know why people don’t use OneTab. It’s so good for this. Probably because you need to know it first, I heard it on Tim Ferriss’s podcasts; before 2018, I even wrote about it.

One caveat, shared bookmarks appeared to be in Search: any bookmark(s) you share is publicly visible to anyone on the internet.

I didn’t use sharing feature yet, but it’s good to know and might be fixed since then, 6 years ago.

Origin: Tim Ferriss, Tools I Use – Part III | ssp.sh
References: Chrome Extension