Kanban boards
Categories, groups and big emoji headers. Resize, collapse, reorder — all by drag and drop.
A calm cabin for your tabs
An open-source tab manager that turns every new tab into quiet boards for your tabs, links, notes and to-dos. Works offline, no account needed. Sign in to sync your computers, or run your own server.
Coming soon to Chrome
Free & MIT licensed · Chrome, Edge, Brave · no account needed
Animated preview of TabCabin: a tab is dragged from the open tabs panel into a group, a to-do is added and ticked off, and a reminder is set on a saved link.
From forty open tabs
to three calm groups
Drag tabs into groups and close them. They stay one new tab away — searchable, with notes and reminders.
🛠️Side project6 links
GPull requests · GitHub
DDrizzle ORM – Overview
HHono – Middleware
TTailwind CSS – Grid
SSQLite – WAL mode
CCaddy – Reverse proxy
📚Read later6 links
FDesigning calm software
WWeb Vitals | web.dev
YShow HN: Local-first apps
SSmashing Magazine
MIndexedDB API – MDN
AThe art of focus
✈️Trip to Lisbon6 links
MGoogle Maps – Alfama
BBooking – Stays
TTram 28 tips
PPastéis de nata spots
WWeather in October
CTrain Lisbon – Sintra
- 01 · Board
Every tab gets a place to stay
Categories across the top, groups as columns with big emoji headers. Links, notes, to-dos, images and stacks live side by side — and everything is drag and drop.
New Tab
- 02 · Collections
Or see it all as cards
Switch any category to wide panels of link tiles. Same data, calmer overview — open a whole group with one click.
New Tab
- 03 · Capture
Save without leaving the page
Ctrl+Shift+S opens a small popover: add a sticky note, pick the group, set a reminder, close the tab. The right-click menu saves links, images and selected text.
Designing calm software · Field notes
- 04 · Search
Find anything in a keystroke
Ctrl+K searches titles, addresses and notes across workspaces, open tabs and bookmarks, then jumps straight to the result on your board.
New Tab
- 05 · Reminders
Come back to what matters
One-time, weekly or monthly reminders on any link or to-do, with desktop notifications, snooze and a due count on the toolbar icon.
New Tab
New Tab
See it in under a minute
Dragging tabs into groups, saving any page with a note, to-dos, search, collections, reminders, the dark theme and sync.
Small details, everywhere
Built by someone who keeps thirty tabs open “for later” — and wanted a calm place to keep them.
Collections view
The same groups as wide panels of link cards, per category.
Open tabs panel
All windows and Chrome tab groups. Save a selection, close duplicates.
Save from any page
Right-click menu and a Ctrl+Shift+S popover with a sticky note.
Instant search
Workspaces, open tabs and bookmarks in one Ctrl+K palette.
Reminders
One-time, weekly or monthly — with notifications and snooze.
Notes, to-dos, stacks
Nine colors, /todo shortcuts, links stacked side by side.
Undo and bin
Every change can be undone; deleted things wait in the bin.
Import and export
JSON, bookmarks and CSV. Bring Chrome bookmark folders along.
Keyboard first
Rebindable shortcuts and a cheat sheet on the ? key.
Light, dark, compact
Themes, density and English or Polish.
No tracking
No analytics, no ads, no access to pages until you click.
Or run your own
Your server. Your data. Every browser in sync.
Sync works as soon as you sign in. If you would rather keep everything on your own machine, run the sync server yourself: one small container with an SQLite database. Caddy gets the HTTPS certificate, a backup script keeps seven nightly copies, and you build the extension with your server’s address.
- Google or username and password, sign-up off by default
- Live updates, offline edits merge when you reconnect
- Docker images for amd64 and arm64 (a Raspberry Pi is enough)
- No telemetry, no third-party services
~/tabcabin
# on your server
$ cd tabcabin && cp .env.example .env
# set DOMAIN and the first account, then
$ docker compose --profile caddy up -d
✔ Container tabcabin-tabcabin-1 Started
✔ Container tabcabin-caddy-1 Started
$ curl https://tabs.example.com/health
{"ok":true,"name":"tabcabin","version":"1.2.0"}
Questions, answered
Is TabCabin free?
Yes. The extension is free and open source under the MIT license, with no limits on how many tabs, groups or workspaces you keep. Running your own sync server is free too.
Do I need an account or a server?
No. The extension works fully offline and keeps everything in your browser. Sign in only when you want the same boards on more than one computer; you never need a server of your own.
Where is my data stored?
In your browser (IndexedDB). When you sign in to sync, a copy is kept on the TabCabin sync server, or on your own server if you run one. Nothing is sent anywhere else and there is no telemetry.
How is it different from OneTab, Toby or Workona?
TabCabin combines kanban boards and a collections view with notes, to-dos and reminders, is open source, works without an account, and lets you run the sync server yourself. See the comparisons.
Can I import my existing tabs and bookmarks?
Yes: TabCabin backups, Toby and tabExtend exports, bookmark files from any browser or bookmark manager, OneTab lists, Chrome bookmark folders and your most visited sites. You can also save every open tab at once from the tabs panel, and export everything as JSON, a bookmarks file or CSV. Step by step: moving from Toby, OneTab or Workona.
Which browsers are supported?
Chrome and other Chromium browsers such as Edge, Brave and Vivaldi. The board also opens in Chrome’s side panel.
Can I run the sync server myself?
Yes, if you want your data only on your own machine. You need Docker and a domain; a small VPS or a Raspberry Pi is plenty. You then build the extension with your server’s address. The self-hosting overview and the step-by-step guide cover HTTPS, accounts, backups and updates.
Close the tabs.
Keep the thoughts.
Free and open source. Move in within a minute, sync when you are ready.
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