Show HN: Tabme – Organizing Bookmarks and Tabs, done right

Hey HN,

## How It Started:

About three years ago, when I was managing multiple teams with different focuses, my inner programmer couldn’t take it anymore and broke free.

He declared that something needed to be done with his own hands—something for the soul and mental health.

The problem that needed solving was right in front of me. I was involved in several projects across different teams, each with multiple Miro boards, Google Docs, Confluence pages, Jira epics, and a mountain of IMPORTANT links!

Yes, I’m talking about browser bookmarks. The built-in browser bookmarks are just a formality. They require moving the cursor, aiming, opening various folders to find the one you need. In short, it’s too complicated. In 2024, users shouldn’t be burdened like this.

I wanted to see everything on one screen without unnecessary clicks. To search visually, at most using a scroll (because it doesn’t add cognitive load).

The closest thing I found at the time was the Toby extension. But even it had an overloaded UI and lagged with my modest volume of bookmarks. It seemed absurd that such a simple task wasn’t solved beautifully.

That’s how my pit project, Tabme — the most convenient bookmark manager for Oleg was born =)).

I’m sharing it with you, enjoy it with me: Tabme on Chrome Web Store

## The Core Idea:

But! To truly enjoy it, you need to use it right.

The joy isn’t just in its simplicity but in the fact that I can find all the key documents for all projects from the last three years. I don’t delete bookmarks from completed projects; I simply hide them (archive). At the same time, the search automatically includes hidden bookmarks. This turned out to be super convenient—an up-to-date minimum on the screen and all history within one click.

## There are also many small features:

— Recommendations for hiding long-unused bookmarks to keep only the important ones on the screen — Global search across bookmarks, open tabs, and history — Duplicate tab closing — Dark mode just arrived this week and was the trigger for this post

If you try it out, please let me know what you like and what you don’t. I’m happy to receive any feedback

## Tech Stack: It’s the usual: React and TypeScript. Link to the repository: https://github.com/pltnkv/tabme

## What’s Next: I’ll continue developing it, guided by my own sense of aesthetics and your feedback.