Getting Started

What TabSlate is

TabSlate is a browser extension that replaces the new-tab page. Instead of a blank page or a list of shortcuts, every new tab opens into a local-first workspace for everything you are browsing — a calm, searchable home for your tabs, bookmarks, collections, and saved groups.

The core model

TabSlate organizes saved content around three nested layers: a workspace contains one or more collections, and each collection holds the bookmarks you have saved into it. Use separate workspaces to keep different projects or areas of your life apart, and collections inside a workspace to group related pages together.

Two other kinds of data sit alongside that saved structure and behave differently:

• Live tabs and Chrome tab groups reflect whatever is actually open in your browser right now. TabSlate displays and lets you act on this current browser state, but it is not something saved on your behalf the way a bookmark is.
• Saved groups are how TabSlate turns a Chrome tab group into a reusable set of tabs: save one, close the tabs whenever you like, and restore the whole set again later when the project comes back around.

Choose a path

• If you have not installed TabSlate yet, start with Install TabSlate to get it from an official browser store or build it from source.
• Already installed? Continue to Quick Start for a short walkthrough of workspaces, collections, bookmarks, and saved groups.
• Before turning on the optional overlay that lets you search from any site, read Browser Permissions to understand what each permission does.