Every working day starts the same way: the email, the team board, the dashboard, the doc you are halfway through, the ticket queue. Opening them one by one takes a couple of minutes and a surprising amount of attention. The browser can do most of this for you, and it is worth setting up properly before reaching for anything else.
Reopen your tabs from last time when the browser starts
If what you want tomorrow is exactly what you had open today, tell the browser to pick up where you left off.
- Chrome: Settings, then On startup, then Continue where you left off.
- Edge: Settings, then Start, home, and new tab page, then under When Edge starts choose Open tabs from the previous session.
- Firefox: Settings, then General, then under Startup tick Open previous windows and tabs.
From then on, quitting the browser in the evening and starting it in the morning gives you the same windows and tabs back. It is the simplest option and, for a lot of people, enough.
Open the same set of pages every time you start the browser
If your morning set is fixed - the same five pages whatever you did yesterday - make those the startup pages instead.
- Chrome: Settings, On startup, Open a specific page or set of pages. Add each address, or open the pages first and choose Use current pages.
- Edge: in the same When Edge starts setting, choose Open these pages and add them.
- Firefox: Settings, Home, then set Homepage and new windows to Custom URLs and press Use Current Pages. Firefox opens your home pages at startup when “Open previous windows and tabs” is off.
Keep a folder of work tabs and open them all at once
A bookmarks folder is a startup set you can open whenever you like, not only when the browser starts.
- Open your work pages in one window.
- Press Ctrl+Shift+D (Cmd+Shift+D on a Mac) to bookmark all the tabs into a new folder. Call it “Work”.
- Next morning, right-click the folder on the bookmarks bar and choose Open all in Chrome or Edge (there is also Open all in new window), or Open All Bookmarks in Firefox.
This is also the cleanest way to keep two sets apart - “Work” and “Personal”, or one folder per client - without either leaking into the other’s startup.
Save your work tabs before you leave
The startup settings above save your tabs by accident: they keep whatever was open when the browser closed. If you want to save a particular set on purpose before leaving - so that evening browsing does not overwrite it - the folder trick works, and so do tab groups. Recent versions of Chrome let you save a tab group and reopen it later from the bookmarks bar.
Where the built-in options fall short
All of this works, with a few gaps that tend to show up after a couple of weeks.
- Startup is not a time. Many laptops are never fully shut down; the browser stays open for days, so “on startup” does not mean “every morning”.
- Nothing happens on a schedule. None of these can open a page every weekday at 9:30, or bring back a window on Monday because it is Monday.
- “Continue where you left off” keeps everything. The forty tabs you opened at 6pm come back too. There is no difference between “work I meant to continue” and “whatever was open”.
- Groups are uneven. Depending on the browser and how it closed, tab groups may come back as loose tabs.
Open a webpage every weekday at 9:30
Latr lets a page come back on a schedule. Open the page, set a reminder for 9:30, and choose Every weekday under Repeat - or type “every weekday” in English in the time field and the repeat is set from your words. At 9:30 each weekday the page reopens on its own, in the background by default, with a notification beside it. Nothing to remember to click.
Other repeats work the same way and are all free: daily, hourly, weekly, certain days of the week, monthly by date, the same weekday each month, the last working day of the month, or every N days, weeks or months. A repeat can be pinned to a time zone so it stays at 9:30 there through clock changes.
One thing to know: the browser has to be running for a reminder to arrive. If it is shut at 9:30, the page comes back when you next open the browser, and Latr tells you it is late rather than pretending it is on time.
Wrap up the day, and get your windows back tomorrow
For the whole set rather than one page, Latr saves windows as windows.
- Save this window keeps every tab and its tab groups, with their names, colours and collapsed state. Give it a name and it is kept for good.
- Remind me… on a saved window puts a time on it, and at that time the whole window reopens, not just its first page.
- Save and close all windows is the end-of-day version, in the popup’s Open tabs section and as a keyboard command you can assign. It shows you what will close before anything does, saves every window as it is, closes them, and brings each one back the next morning. There is an optional line for the first thing you mean to do tomorrow, which comes back as the morning reminder’s note.
- Autosave (off by default) keeps the last few versions of your window every 15, 30 or 60 minutes, so an accidental close does not cost you the set.
Restoring opens a new window and rebuilds the groups, so your morning set does not land on top of whatever you had open. There is more on how this fits a working day on the for work page, and on saved windows in general on the session manager page.
Saving windows, the end-of-day wrap-up and every repeat are free, there is no account, and it works in Chrome, Edge and Firefox.
Set it up once on a Friday afternoon, and on Monday the pages are already open when you sit down.
