“Too many tabs syndrome” you said? Well, this ends today thanks to a free simple tool.
TL;DR — As millions of people were forced to work on remote during the COVID-19, often left alone before a single screen computer and compelled to make hundreds of clicks on tabs (select, reorder, remove, etc.), we built tabby.us.
It’s a 100% free AI-based browsing assistant that removes unnecessary tabs automatically and silently — with a 1-click tab restore.
This new side-project is donation-based and aims at helping people significantly improve their focus online all day long, without additional effort.
👉 Read our full guide on how to fight the too many tabs syndrome.
I. People experience a fragmented reality online
We’ve all experienced thousands of tabs opened on the computer: professional SaaS apps, G Suite apps, and other random search.
The thing is less time is offered for intense focus and thinking on a given day.
We switch tasks by switching tabs and that means “clicking”: you click to select a tab, to reorder it, to remove it, to pin it, etc.
Not only does this make working online boring and repetitive, but it also impacts the quality and the effectiveness of our time online. Our ideas are constantly “clicks” away, and we lose the continuity in our decision-making process. This causes subtle anxiety, frustration alongside with productivity drops.
Hence, the concept of “fragmented reality” online (we develop the concept here)
II. The “less is more” philosophy in one simple tool
We therefore designed a simple tool that would use automation as a means to
- solve that problem super effectively (like a permanent fix)
- while offering the best user experience online (a perfect integration into user habits)
- and lowering the online carbone footprint — yes, tabs consume electricity, not necessaritly from clean sources, and it forces you to recharge your computer more often, which you know decreases their lifetime. (read how you can reduce your online carbon footprint)
This tool is called tabby.us.
It’s an AI-based assistant that silently works for users: it detects less relevant tabs, remove them automatically and store them in nice popup where you can filter tabs, and retrieve them in 1-click.
The tool has its own memory, meaning all the content you input in that page like “filters”, “amazon reviews”, “airbnb reviews”, “emails”, etc. will also be restored.
On top of that, privacy is key for us so we don’t collect personal data — and we’ll never do that. So far, 100% of the algorithm runs smoothly locally on the machine of the user, and the code is optimized to decrease your RAM as you browse.
It’s a side-project, 100% free and we work with donations.
III. Results so far
Tabby solves the “too many tabs syndrome” for specific people only.
Existing solutions like “OneTab” allow users to save their tabs per session, to retrieve them and to re-organize them; “the Great Suspender” desactivates your tabs to improve your RAM.
These solutions are best if you want to be in a 100% control of your browsing interface — and we are personaly huge fans of these solutions.
We work differently: if you don’t want to allocate time to reordering tabs, manually selecting which tab should be desactivated etc. then tabby is probably the best call for you.
- On the first week we launched, a user sent us a screenshot of his popup: 192 tabs were removed within a single day, and he claimed he reopened fewer than 10 tabs. That’s a 94% accuracy ratio.
Well, that’s a heavy user, and not even the cofounding team has reached that score (an average of 60 tabs removed per day). 🙃
Another example, from another user.
- A quote from a beta user: “tabby has now just incorporated into my online life and I never think about it. I don’t think I’ve had to reopen a tab in at least a week :)” after a couple of months of use :)
- ADHD users also see some benefits: tabby can sort of stabilize their browsing experience because it filters out research per relevance based on the user behaviour. If you know ADHD adults that could benefit from the tool, please reach out as we’d love to help more here.
If you have a tendency to open a lot of tabs, to switch a lot between tabs and if you break your line of thoughts multiple times a day, then tabby can help you focus on what really matters for you.
IV. tabby is still in beta, please reach out
We still have a lot to learn and to improve.
The fun part of any side-project is to connect with people so if you’re interested in the beta, please use tabby and reach out :)
Website: https://www.tabby.us/
We wish you all a happy focus online.
the tabby team
