Data

Saving

Tabs and windows can be saved and browsed and reopened later.

Control Space provides various ways to do this:

• Tabs can be saved by dragging directly to Saved
• Tabs can be saved using the Save Tabs modal via the context menu or keyboard shortcut Cmd+S
• Windows can be saved via the window menu or keyboard shortcut Shift+Cmd+S.

The Save modal provides an interactive UI to choose where to save:

Within the modal you can:

• name or rename the window or tab(s) being saved
• navigate and choose the target folder
• add new folders

Note the double-slash (//) delimiter; you can manually type this to separate the title from a description.

To finish:

• click "Save" or hit Enter
• click "Save and Close" or hit Cmd+Enter
• click "Cancel" or hit Esc

Confirming will show a notification popup, with additional actions such as revealing the saved item.

Exporting

Tabs, windows, folders, pages, even the current workspace can be exported in multiple formats.

Using the context menu:

• focus or select one or more tabs, pages or folders
• use the context or hamburger menu and choose "Export"

Using the keyboard:

• export focused or selected tabs, pages, or folders, using Cmd+E
• export the focused window using Shift+Cmd+E

Using Tools:

• export the current workspace by opening the Tools panel and choosing "Export"

A notification will show what was shared, along with the format the items were shared in:

To change the format, click the format link in the notification and choose from:

• URLs
• Text
• Markdown
• HTML Paragraphs
• HTML Bullets
• JSON

Importing

Control Space provides multiple ways to open tabs in the browser.

You can open URLs in a new window by:

• dragging text or any file containing one or more URLs
• pasting multiple URLs into the Search box

Complete a title for the window then:

• hit Enter to accept
• hit Enter again to open the first tab

Data cleanup

It's a fact that website titles and URLs are optimised for search engines, not humans:

• titles may contain the page title, site name, notification and keyword data
• URLs may contain domain, path and tracking data

Control Space does its best to clean and simplify this.

In open tabs

Control Space attempts to:

• split page title and site name into separate units
  • display the page title as the primary unit of information
  • display the site name (vs the domain name) as the secondary unit of information
• display notifications as a small badge
• display the URL only on mouseover or focus

When saving tabs

Control Space extracts:

• page title, extracted from the full page title
• description, extracted from the full page title (defaulting to site name)

It also:

• automatically strips common tracking data
• provides options for custom descriptions using a special // format
• provides options to strip query strings