Maarten, there's a function in chrome about tab groups. Can you share with me how that works?
Yes Melanie, this is actually something that I stumbled, well one day I opened chrome and it
says new feature and I clicked on it and I was, you know, I read up a little bit about it and I
really liked it. So this is something that I use all the time. Now the challenge that a lot
of people have - and I'm one of those people - is that, you know, I need to work with a lot of open
tabs every single day and your web browser, when you open too many tabs, your browser becomes
really cluttered. You can't really see anything anymore you know, it's just, it's not very, it's not
very conducive for productivity. So, what they've basically done is this ability to take a
lot of tabs, group them together and collapse them. So, for example, let's say you take email for example.
Now, I've opened chrome in incognito mode so I'm not showing you any sensitive information.
So, I'm not logged into anything. So, let's say for example, you use email all the time. So you can
go to gmail. I'm not going to log in now but you could log in and so you always have your email
available. And then you can go on a separate tab and let's say you can go to google calendar, for
example. And so, if I go to google calendar, I'm not gonna log in but there is your calendar there.
Now, if I want to take this tab and actually make it part of the email, all I do is I actually just
drag it into that thing. You can see the color changes to
the same color as the tab. It becomes light blue. Yes, so all these things are now grouped together
and I can collapse them or I can expand them and you can create new ones. So, let's say you've got
like a client and the client is "Client A" for example. So I can open anything that's relevant
for him, you know, it's in any random page so what I'd use for my clients is, I've got certain
documents that I use for each client for example a roadmap document, a changes document, a to do document,
and then just a document for.... we've got a shared drive that we create for every client as well.
It's got all the information for the specific project grouped together. So, I'll put the
shared drive, the road method, the to do list, everything, I'll group that together. So, if you want
to create a new tag group, all you do is basically just say "add to new tab group" and save your group.
And now you can give it like "abc" so you can call it abc and you can even asign to it whatever color
you like. So you can put a lot of text in there or you can just have a single letter. Whatever you prefer.
And now you can, so there's the one. And you can move it around. So that's basically tab groups.
So, Maarten, I've got an interesting question for you.
Does this make your computer slower in any way ? Not at all! This is just... you're still using...
I'm guessing you that you are referring to all the multiple web pages that you know I've opened, so
the more pages you have open the more your memory usage will be. But, so you know, I'm quite spoiled
with the amount of memory I've got in this machine but it's whether you have
20 pages open and you have them in tab group or whether you have 20 web pages
and you don't have them in tab groups, there's no performance penalty. So, whatever amount of tabs
that your browser is comfortable opening with that amount of memory you have on that machine, that
should be fine.
Well, this is a fantastic feature Maarten. I will definitely use it in my business.
Sure, and just something that i also want to mention is that once you've set up all these
groups and you're happy with them,. you want to open your web browsers... every time
you open your web browser you want one thing to appear there. What you can actually do is
you can go under settings and just say that, "on startup continue where you left off".
So every time you open your web browser you will have all your 20 tabs open. You don't have to
open everyone individually. Just something to note is that if I were to open, for example,
a new web browser and i would close... let's say, for example, I open a new browser and I only
have one tab open. I must just be careful that I don't close this one last because it will
open where I was when I left off. So you must always be careful if you open a second web browser
and just open a single page, just close that one first and the one with all the pages you must
close last. So, that's something I learned the hard way.
That's a very important point, yes. Thank you Maarten.
Pleasure!