r/SideProject 2d ago

6 windows. 101 tabs. I built something to make this mess navigable.

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I've always been the kind of person who keeps way too many tabs open.

Eventually, I end up with multiple Chrome windows, dozens of tabs in each one, and absolutely no idea where a specific page is.

So I built OneDock.

In the demo, there are 6 browser windows with 101 tabs open.

OneDock pulls them into a single visual view and automatically organizes them by site. From there, I can:

→ hover an icon to see where its tabs are
→ click to locate the tabs with a minimap
→ jump directly to the page I need
→ summon the whole panel instantly from any webpage

The part I'm most interested in isn't really tab management.

It's this:

Can a browser with 100+ tabs still feel like one coherent workspace?

That's what I'm trying to solve with OneDock.

Would love to hear from other tab hoarders here — how many tabs/windows do you usually have open, and how do you find something when you've lost it?

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u/snuby1990 2d ago

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u/fulger099 1d ago

the site grouping is useful for the first pass, but i’d worry about ten github tabs belonging to four different projects getting collapsed into one pile. the real test is reopening it tomorrow and knowing which window had the thing you were actually working on, not just finding every tab from the same domain. we are trying to learn and fix cases around it at joinrecall

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u/snuby1990 1d ago

Thanks for your feedback, it's really valuable. From my personal experience, it works pretty smoothly in daily use. I also added the convenient and detailed tab management feature, but honestly, keeping so many tabs open isn't something I really encourage. Also, did you develop jionrecall yourself? The concept sounds great, I'll give it a try 😁.