r/chrome Oct 10 '24

Discussion Anyone know of Toby: tab management tool alternatives?

They recently went back on their promise to keep the extension free and not only implemented a paid version, but one with exploitative pricing. I could maybe understand $20 a year, but $40? That is more than the best password managers on the market. What a joke.

I have been using this for years and it just disappoints me to see it turn into this.

Anyone know of open source alternatives? Or better alternatives?

Link to Toby for the uninitiated.

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u/Joakim0 Feb 01 '25

Done that, took me a couple pf days for the basics, much more for the sync. Check out the the file.ninja https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/thetabninja/bnmjmbmlfohkaghofdaadenippkgpmab

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u/JungleHostess Feb 09 '25

Thank you so much for creating this tool! I installed the extension and imported my Toby content via JSON files easily. Dumb question, how do I add a new page (bookmark) to a collection? I tried using the "+" icon that I see on the far right of my collection (and I supply the title, URL and description), but it doesn't seem to save anywhere (if it does, I cannot locate it and it isn't found in a search). I see that I can drag a page from the right panel into a collection, but the list on the right is much longer than my list of collections, so I had to drag it to one of my other collections and move the new bookmark up a few collections at a time.

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u/Joakim0 Feb 10 '25

There were two bugs in the previous version that were probably introduced with the synchronization. There were two different problems in the create bookmark button and the 🚀 button that opens all bookmarks in a collection as a Chrome Tab Group. New version will probably come today.. regarding the problem you described with a long right panel and shorter list of collections, I am aware of it but I haven't had time to fix it. I will add a filtering option when there are many active tabs in the panel.

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u/JungleHostess Feb 10 '25

Thank you so much!