Sessions

A session is a snapshot of tabs you can reopen later, with their groups, names, and URLs. Sessions are scoped per workspace and organized in three buckets: pinned, active, archived.

The three buckets

Bucket	When to use
Pinned	Contexts you come back to regularly (client project, dev environment, ongoing research). Projected in the popup and the home page as profiles.
Active	Everyday sessions: an ad-hoc capture before closing the browser, a snapshot of an ongoing search.
Archived	Sessions set aside without deleting them. Out of sight from the popup and the home page.

The Archived sub-tab of the Sessions page is reachable via #sessions/archived (deep link) or via the TabNav at the top of the page.

The session card

In every bucket, a session is shown as a card. Pointing at a card (or focusing it with the keyboard) opens a HoverCard that summarizes the session without restoring it: capture date, number of tabs, category, and the note when there is one. It is the fastest way to recognize a session before acting on it.

Take a snapshot

From the home page, the popup, or the Sessions page, click Take Snapshot (shortcut S on the home page).

1. Name: a session name prefilled with the date and time. Editable.
2. Tab selection: by default every tab of the active window. Uncheck the tabs to leave out.
3. Category (optional): adds an emoji to the session. Handy to tell several pinned profiles apart visually.
4. Note (optional): free text stored with the session, visible on restore or on export.
5. Confirm. The session appears immediately in the Active sessions list.

Restore a session

Four restore targets are available. With a session or profile focused:

Target	Shortcut	Effect
Restore in current window	Shift + R	Adds the session tabs to the currently foregrounded window.
Restore in new window	Alt + Shift + R	Opens a new dedicated window.
Replace tabs in current window	Alt + R	Closes the current window’s tabs and restores those of the session in their place.
Customized restoration	R	Opens the restore wizard and surfaces any conflicts.

A click or pressing Enter uses the default action configured in Settings.

Conflict wizard

When tabs from the session are already open in the target window, the wizard offers a per-tab resolution:

Action	Effect
Restore	Adds the new tab next to the existing one. You keep both.
Skip	Skips this tab. The currently open version is left untouched.
Replace	Closes the existing tab and restores the session’s one in its place.

Note

Tabs restored through the wizard are protected against immediate deduplication for 10 seconds (same mechanism as Undo on deduplication).

Edit a session

Click the Edit icon on a session card, or use E on the focused card. The session editor lets you:

• Rename the session.
• Delete individual tabs.
• Reorder tabs between groups or regroup them via drag and drop.
• Rename a group inside the session.
• Change the category or the note.

Changes are applied immediately. The expanded or collapsed state of each group is remembered across openings.

Refresh a session

The Refresh button (shortcut U on the focused session) replaces the session content with the current state of the current window, while keeping the name and category. Useful to update a pinned profile after a work session without recreating it.

Pinned sessions

Pinning promotes a session to a profile: it shows up in the popup and on the home page of the active workspace.

1. On the session card, click the Pin icon (or press P when focused).
2. The session moves to the Pinned section at the top of the page, and appears in the popup and on the home page.

Pinning changes neither the name nor the content, only the status and the placement. Click the icon again to unpin.

Note

Profiles are scoped per workspace. Switching workspace immediately swaps the list shown in the popup and on the home page. A given session can only be pinned in the workspace where it was created.

Category to tell profiles apart

Assigning a category to a pinned session surfaces its emoji next to the name in the popup. Handy when you have several profiles and want to tell them apart at a glance.

Archive

The Archived sub-tab holds sessions you want to keep without seeing every day. An archived session does not appear in the popup or on the home page, but stays accessible and restorable from the Sessions page.

Archive a session

On the card of an active session, open the context menu and click Archive. The session leaves the Active list immediately and shows up in Archived. A pinned session must be unpinned first to be archivable.

Unarchive

In the Archived sub-tab, click Unarchive. The session moves back to Active. The session’s last update date is preserved (archiving is not treated as a content change).

Deep link

The URL chrome-extension://[id]/options.html#sessions/archived opens the Archived sub-tab directly. You can bookmark it to dig up an old session.

Filter and sort

The headers of the Active and Archived sections (not the Pinned section) carry a view button that opens a sort and filter menu. Like for rules, it only affects how the section is displayed.

Setting	Options
Sort	Manual order, by date, by last restore, by category. Ascending or descending.
Filter	By category.

Sorting by last restore relies on the timestamp recorded each time the session is restored. The view is remembered independently for the Active and the Archived section, and separately for each workspace.

Search

The search bar above the list filters by session name. A deep search is available too: it also looks at the captured tab titles, which helps you find a session by one of its contents.

Multi-selection and bulk actions

To act on several sessions at once, tick the checkbox on each card you want. A bulk actions bar then appears at the top of the section, with a master checkbox (select all or none) and the actions that apply to the whole selection.

Action	Effect
Export selected	Exports only the selected sessions to JSON.
Delete selected	Removes every selected session (with a confirmation).
Pin / Unpin selected	Promotes the selection to profiles, or demotes it.
Archive selected	Moves the selected active sessions to the Archived sub-tab.

The available actions depend on the section: the Pinned section offers unpin, the Active section offers pin and archive. Export and delete are available everywhere.

Next steps

WorkspacesIsolate sessions by context.

PopupQuick access to the pinned profiles of the active workspace.

SettingsDefault restore action, notifications.

Import / ExportBack up your sessions as JSON.