Does your browser ever look like this?
I somehow always end up with too many open tabs that are spread across several windows. I also hate wasting precious time jumping between windows and tabs or accidentally clicking on the wrong tab. As a scientist and a developer, this problem was all too common for me but I wasn’t satisfied with the existing tools that add extra work and make you sort or organize tabs and also remember what you did with them. That’s why I built the Single Dispatch command palette.
Single Dispatch makes it easy to find, close, and switch to the tabs you want with just a few keystrokes. You no longer need to visually search for the correct tab across all open windows. Simple Dispatch gets rid of the need to organize tabs or arrange them in a specific order just so you can quickly switch between the ones you want. Now you can have as many tabs open as you wish without having to worry about how to keep track of them.
The command palette uses fuzzy search so you don’t need to spell out a command exactly or accurately. Typos are perfectly fine! You can even type in the first letter of each word, and skip words as needed. There is no need to add any spaces either.
One way to not end up with so many tabs is to be able to close them quickly and confidently. If you are still using your mouse to close tabs, you have to click on the tab first before you can actually close it. What if you have several similarly labeled tabs open? For example, I often have 5 to 10 tabs open for Stack Overflow or Google that all look the same in the toolbar. In these cases, I have to hover over the tab for a second before I can see the full title. Then I get to click on it followed by another click just to close the tab I never wanted to exist in the first place! And finally, you end up with a completely different tab than you started with just because you decided to close a tab you were no longer using. 🤦♂️
With Single Dispatch, you can search for the tab with your keyboard and use a keyboard shortcut displayed in the command palette to quickly close the tab without ever switching to it. You can instantly see the entire page title as you type without having to hover and wait.
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And finally, my favorite feature I have implemented so far is the ability to split a tab out of a window and move it to one side while keeping the original window on the left. This is very helpful when you want to have one tab open for reference while you are actively working on another.
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Do you have any ideas on how to further improve tab management in Single Dispatch? Let me know below!
