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Tabverse is a Chrome extension that turns a window full of related tabs into a named workspace you can put down and pick up again.

When you work on something, you usually open one Chrome window and a pile of tabs in it - searches, results, documents, tools, all about the same thing. That window and its tabs are a Tabverse. Tabverse gives the window a name, remembers it, and hangs the small things that go with the work - notes, todos, bookmarks, the tabs you closed - off it, so that when you are done (or just need a break) you can close the window without losing the thread.

Everything is local first: on its own, Tabverse needs no account and no network. Pairing with a server is optional and comes later.

Install​

Tabverse is a Chrome extension (Manifest V3, Chrome 140 or newer).

Install it from the Chrome Web Store. That listing is the release build; Chrome keeps it updated for you.

Without the store​

You can also run a build by hand. GitHub releases carry tabverse.zip:

  1. Download tabverse.zip and extract it to a folder, and keep that folder. Chrome loads a folder, not a zip; extracting each new version into the same folder keeps the extension id - and so your settings - stable, while a new folder is a new extension.
  2. Open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode, click Load unpacked, and pick the extracted folder.

Note that a hand-loaded build has its own extension id and so its own, empty, profile: your data does not move between it and the store install. Export a .tabverse file to carry it across.

The manual installation guide walks the same steps through with screenshots.

From source​

To build the extension yourself - or work on it - see Install from source: a clone, pnpm install, a build, and load dist/ unpacked.

What it does​

  • Tabverses - one Chrome window is one workspace. Name it, save it, and restore it later with all its tabs. → Tabverses
  • Todo, Note, Bookmark, History and AI Chat tools attached to the tabverse, each saved and restored with it. Pin one to the top, focus it, and the layout is remembered.
  • One search across tabs, history, notes, todos and bookmarks.
  • On-device AI that can chat about a page you attach, summarize a page into a note, or suggest a name for a tab collection, where Chrome ships its built-in model - and a page-to-Markdown viewer that needs no model at all.
  • Optional server sync, so the same workspace is on every browser you use, with a server you run yourself.

Your first Tabverse​

After installing, click the Tabverse T icon in Chrome's toolbar to open the popup:

The Tabverse toolbar popup

  • New tabverse makes the current window a tabverse (if it already has one, Tabverse asks first - the current one is already saved).
  • Import reads a .tabverse file as a new saved tabverse.
  • The search box and the Recent list reach every tabverse saved in this browser; a row badged this window is the one you are in.

The Basic Usage pages walk the manager interface section by section.

Optional: server sync​

Tabverse works entirely in this browser. If you want the same tabverses on a second browser or machine, you can pair it with a tabversed server that you run yourself; the extension talks only to the address you enter.

Questions and feedback​

Support and discussion happen at r/tabverse on Reddit: ask a question, report a problem, or say what you would like Tabverse to do. Code, releases and the source of this site are in the repository, which also takes issues and discussions.