Brief | Workona, A Chrome Workspace Manager

Workona allows tab-switching and sharing of URL ‘resources’ with teams

Normally I might not write a post about a Chrome tab management extension, even one that is quite clever. However, Workona goes a bit further because it not only allows a user to manage individual tabs but also to share tabs and their underlying URLs with other individuals or named teams.

After installation, you can create named workspaces and either drag existing tabs onto them, or open new tabs while ‘in’ a workspace. The plugin involves a menubar button (in the circle on the screenshot below), which opens a special tab in the browser, showing existing workspaces:

Here’s the Workona UI, with a list of workspaces down the left, and the various workspace elements of the selected workspace to the right.

Above, I’ve selected the journal workspace, which only shows two tabs, and no resources (which are URLs saved, but not necessarily open at the present). I also have opened the various actions available within a workspace, which offer various contols over tabs, like suspending tabs or saving all open tabs as…