Tabsets

Tabsets are sets of tabs related to some task. A particular task may involve browsing news, checking webmail, conducting a search, and so on. Tabsets let you focus on a task by hiding tabs unrelated to the task. By focusing on tasks, tabsets make it easy to have a large number of tabs open.

A new tabset is typically created indirectly by opening a group. Opening a group creates a new tabset with the same name as the group. Groups can be opened via the Groups Button in the Categorize toolbar.

Try opening a new tabset now! Open the groups menu, and click the menu item labelled News.

New tabs opened by the user get added to the active tabset. The active tabset is the tabset whose tabs are unhidden. Only a single tabset can be active at a time and all other tabsets are inactive. Inactive tabsets have all their tabs hidden.

New tabsets may also be created via the Open Tabset button in the Show Tabsets View.

The Tabsets View button is the button next to the groups menu button in the Categorize toolbar.

This button’s appearance indicates the number of open tabsets. For instance, the image below indicates four open tabsets.

Clicking the Show Tabsets Button opens the Tabsets View. This popup lists all open tabsets and their tabs. In this popup, the currently active tabset is indicated via blue shading. Additionally, the selected tab for each tabset is marked by green text.

The Tabsets View can also be toggled via the <Ctrl+Space> key combination.

The <Tab> and the arrow keys can be used to navigate in this view. An alternate keyboard navigation scheme based on the vi text editor navigation keys is also available. This scheme uses <j> and the <k> keys for up/down navigation; and the <h> and <l> keys for left and right navigation.

A new tabset can be opened adjacent to an existing tabset by pressing the Open Tabset button in the header of the appropriate tabset. The same can be done via the keyboard by pressing the <o> or the <O> keys. The <o> key opens a new tabset after the target tabset, while the <O> key opens a new tabset before the target tabset.

Two adjacent tabsets can be joined together by using the Join Tabsets button in the header of the first tabset. The same can also be accomplished via the keyboard by pressing the <J> key (Note: <j> won’t work as it is a navigation key).

Tabs can be closed in this view by either pressing <Delete> or the <x> key.

Tabsets can be switched via the Tabsets View. To switch tabsets, click the Show Tabsets button to open the Tabsets View, and make a selection.

If all tabs in a tabset are closed, a new tabset is chosen and made active automatically.

You can close a tabset by closing all the tabs in the tabset. You can also close a tabset in the Tabsets View by clicking the close tabset button of the appropriate tabset.