Tuck: a tiny extension for people with too many tabs

I've been thinking about tabs for a while.

When Arc came out, it had this quiet little feature where tabs you hadn't touched in a while would just... go away. I loved it. It very quietly changed how I used a browser. Tabs would disappear, and if you needed one back, it was there in a list. A list I rarely ever opened.

Arc's team moved on, and the idea didn't make it into Dia, but it stuck with me.

The other thing I always wanted was a better way to stash a tab for later. Not bookmark it. I mean actually have it come back at a specific time. The best I could do was share a link to Reminders, type out a title, set a date. Three steps too many for something that should be instant.

So I built Tuck. It's a browser extension that does two things.

It snoozes tabs. You type "tomorrow 9am" or "next Monday" or "in 2 hours", the tab closes, and it comes back when you said. You can add a note, like "read before the meeting", so you remember why.

To snooze a tab just choose an option when it should return or type it in natural language

It auto-closes idle tabs. Anything you haven't looked at in 24 hours (or whatever you set) quietly closes and goes to a saved list. Pinned tabs, grouped tabs, and sites you whitelist are never touched. One click to bring anything back.

Tabs that were inactive for a time period you set will close automatically

That's the whole thing. No accounts, no sync, no data leaving your browser. Works on Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Five dollars, once.

What surprised me is how much I relaxed. I've always been a bit of a tab weirdo — I keep my browser to seven tabs or fewer at all times. But it's work. Constant tidying. Now I just don't think about it. Tuck handles the cleanup and I focus on what I'm actually doing.

If you have any suggestions, let me know. I'm adding keyboard shortcuts and language support next to round things out.

Give it a try!

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Milosz Falinski