The copy
The same page, open twice or three times.
Close the duplicates. Latr’s list of open tabs marks every extra copy in words. One press closes them and keeps the first.
How: close the duplicates →Too many tabs open?
Clear them without losing one.
Eighty tabs is not a discipline problem. Each one is open because it is doing a job - mostly, reminding you of something. Give every tab a better place to do that job, and the strip clears itself.
- No account, ever
- Free, and not a trial
- Nothing leaves your browser
The triage
Every open tab is one of six kinds
Go through the strip once, left to right. Each tab is one of these, and each kind has one move. Most people are down to a handful of tabs in ten minutes.
The “later today”
Open because you need it at a particular time.
Snooze it. Give it a time and close it. It reopens on its own then, at the line you were reading.
How: snooze it →The “someday”
Worth keeping, with no moment it is needed.
Keep it. Keep saves it to your library with no time. Give it one later, or never.
How: keep it →The project
Twelve tabs that only make sense together.
Save the window. Save the whole window, tab groups and all, then close it. It comes back as one window.
How: save the window →The heavy one
Needed today, but eating memory while you are elsewhere.
Put it to sleep. The tab stays where it is; the page leaves memory and loads again on a click.
How: put it to sleep →The lost one
Open somewhere, in some window, and you cannot find it.
Search for it. Type a few letters and jump straight to it, in any window.
How: search for it →Why it works
Tabs pile up because closing one feels like losing it
A tab you meant to come back to is a reminder with no alarm. Nothing will bring it back once it is closed, so it stays open, and so do the next seventy-nine.
The fix is not willpower, and it is not a better list of open tabs. It is giving each tab's job to something that does that job better: a time for the tab you need later, a shelf for the one you need someday, a saved window for the project you will resume next week. Once that exists, closing a tab costs nothing - which is when people actually close them.
Latr does all six moves from one place, with no account and nothing uploaded. Every open tab, across every window, is in one list where the copies are marked and every tab has a menu; the tab manager page shows the rest of it. If you would rather it kept the pile down for you, turn on Save and close forgotten tabs: tabs untouched for a day (or any span from six hours to thirty days) are saved to your library and closed, never a pinned tab, the one you are on or one playing sound.
Questions
Too many tabs, asked directly
Why do I keep so many tabs open?
Usually because a tab is doing a job nothing else does: it is a reminder. Closing it feels like losing the thing it reminds you of. Once a tab can be closed with a time on it - and reopen on its own then - most tabs stop needing to stay open.
Is it bad to have a lot of tabs open?
Every open tab can hold memory, so dozens of them can slow a laptop, and a strip too crowded to read its titles makes the one you need hard to find. The browser’s own memory saving helps with the first; only closing, saving or grouping tabs helps with the second.
How do I close tabs without losing them?
Save them first. With Latr, give a tab a time and it reopens then; keep it with no time and it waits in your library; or save the whole window and restore it later. Then close freely.
Can tabs I have forgotten be closed automatically?
Yes, if you turn it on. Save and close forgotten tabs (free, off by default) saves tabs you have not looked at for a day - or any span from six hours to thirty days - to your library and closes them, up to twenty at a time. It never takes a pinned tab, the one you are on, or one playing sound.
Does Latr need an account or upload my tabs?
No. There is no account, and everything is stored in your own browser. A free install makes no network requests at all.
Close the tab.
It will come back.
Free, no account, and nothing leaves your device. About ten seconds to install, and one keystroke to use.
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