Tabs

View, organise and interact with your browser tabs

Overview

Tabs in Control Space are a 1:1 representation of your actual browser tabs:

Opening a tab in your browser will create a new tab item in Control Space, and closing a tab in Control Space will close the physical browser tab (and vice versa).

In addition, you can rename, drag, multi-select, cut-and-paste, nudge, detach, save, load, import, sleep, wake and various other actions.

Information surfacing

Control Space's tabs are much more informative than browser tabs, with simplified page titles and site names, notifications and feedback on loaded state and audio:

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Additionally, Control Space does its best to transform site titles, from something like this:

Into something this:

Status

The background of each tab makes it easy to see which ones are active:

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Drag and drop

Drag and drop tabs within the workspace to order or move them:

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You can drag tabs within a window, to other windows, or to empty space – which creates a new window.

Note that you can also save and restore tabs by dragging them in and out of the Saved tabs pane:

ActionDescription
Drag tab to to SavedClose and save tab
Drag saved tab to WindowOpen and delete saved tab
Click tab in SavedOpen saved tab (or focus if already open) in current Window
Double-click folder in SavedOpen folder in new (or add to existing) Window

Multi-selection

You can multi-select tabs using the mouse and / or keyboard, using the same modifiers you would with your desktop files:

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You can then run any actions or right-click for a selection-sensitive context menu:

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Or, drag and drop:

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Note that:

  • the number of selected tabs will be indicated in the Toolbar
  • to select tabs without switching to them, click on the tab's icon.
  • keyboard shortcuts are focus and selection sensitive
  • you can clear the selection by clicking the Toolbar indicator's x button, or hitting Esc

Cut-and-paste

Tabs can be cut and pasted using the context menu or Cmd+X and Cmd+V:

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Note that:

  • the number of cut tabs will be indicated in the Toolbar
  • you can clear the clipboard by clicking the Toolbar indicator's x button, or hitting Esc

Saving tabs

Tabs can be saved and shared using both keyboard and content menus.

See the Data and Saved sections for more information.

Actions

In addition to the actions listed above, tabs have the following functionality:

Creation

ActionDescription
CloseClose any tab, via mouse or keyboard
Undo closeUndo recently-closed tabs

Organisation

ActionDescription
RenameRename the tab title and description
MoveOrder and move tabs by dragging, or nudging using the keyboard
DetachDetach focused, selected or "tabs from here" to new windows

Memory

ActionDescription
SleepDiscard tabs to save some memory
WakeReload discarded tabs

Saving

ActionDescription
LocateAttempt to locate tabs of the same name in Saved
Find SimilarFind tabs from the same domain by running a Search
RestoreDrag one or more tabs from Saved to the Workspace

Sharing

ActionDescription
ExportShare tabs in various text formats
ImportDrag text or files into the workspace, to open tabs in a single window

Shortcuts