I’ve been using the tab groups in safari for a few months now, and must say I absolutely love them! Or do I?
The thing is that where I used to go down a rabbit hole in 50-60 open tabs, how do I stop myself from doing the same in 50-60 tab groups? It’s a whole colony of rabbits now.
So far I’ve created a forums group (including MPU talk), an automation one, privacy, infosec, linux, docker, playlists, recipes, TV, furniture (can’t remember why), regex, kali, raspberry pi and a few dozen more temporary ones.
I do like the organisational aspects, but not sure this helps me really get the info I need. Time will tell I guess.
I’m really curious what everyone’s experience is with them?
I’ve only used them a bit. I created a tab group ahead of a shopping trip to IKEA to research what I wanted to look at/buy there. It worked well for that.
I have started to use tab groups to organize, much like you have. I really like the tab groups. I was glad to abandon bookmarks. I found over the past six or so years that I never used my bookmarks folders (except my “favorites,” which housed all the most important sites I visit regularly). I would collect links and never use them. When I did try to use my bookmarks, all I was doing was deleting broken links.
Tab groups seems more “dynamic” and “alive.” I have all my news sites in a group; subjects that I’m currently researching are in separate group; I have a group for all my favorite running websites.
I don’t feel bad deleting or removing tabs from a tab group, or adding them.
I only use 1 tab group, which has one tab in it, my school email. I love it. School email is walled off so I won’t accidentally go to that tab, but very accessible if I want it.
Everything else is just in the standard, open window.
When I first tried tab groups I thought they were dumb. Then I realised what they actually are, and that’s nothing to do with bookmarks.
All tabs behave like they did before. Leave it open and it stays there; navigate away and it changes; close it and its gone. None of these are traits of bookmarks. Tab groups are simply a means to have the 50-60 tabs open in some kind of slightly organised fashion.
Reviving this thread to see if people are still into Safari Tab Groups?
I’ve used them since they one and have really like the ability to switch between open tabs based on location and the focus of my activity.
BUT, and this is my major annoyance with tab groups, EACH time I search for something by pulling down in the screen on my iPhone or iPad and searching cia Safari, it opens the query up in a tab outside any of the tab groups, DESPITE. me having the Personal focus mode on and the personal Tab Group associated to that focus mode, it fails every single time to the point where I don’t think it’s supposed to occur in the first case
I use them daily.
There is one including this forum which I visit daily.
There is one for FPL and other fantasy games I play.
I create one for anything I am researching at any particular time.
I love tab groups and use them for work and in private.
For work I love to keep certain sites on server stages like dev-farm, pre-prod or prod in tab groups when I know I have to compare settings across different stages of our server environments
For private I recently found good use to tame social media usage: I follow some accounts on instagram and like keeping up with those. But I have deleted the app and opened those profiles in distinct safari pages that I put into one tab group. Together with plug in to stop video auto-play I can quickly check those couple pages without the dangers of mindlessly browsing Instagram - the web experience is inconvenient and unpleasant enough .
Another tab group is for my finance accounts that I check once a week.
Never used them and still don’t. I have a nice curated set of folders and I can open all the links in a folder easily. So I guess I use folders in bookmarks like other people use tab groups. I have folders containing links of the weather sites I check every morning, news sources I read regularly, forums I visit often, our own various web sites and content creation sites, and several more.
My irritation now with Safari is that no matter that I have the settings to open all links in new tabs if I click on a link in Apple mail it ALWAYS opens up in a new window. I’ve gone through all the recommended updates and resets per Apple support but it still doesn’t work.
My half-baked theory on tab groups and the like are that they are for people who grew up using phones and tablets where you can’t have multiple windows for an app open, and so these people never learned to use multiple windows.
Related: Young people have to be taught to use document folders.
Hey hey! I use tab groups and a lot of windows. Sometimes I have my tab groups in their own windows! It’s nice.
I typically use tab groups for either client projects, where I might have some research open occasionally during the work until it’s no longer needed, or for something like guitar shopping — an activity I do somewhat regularly, in the same usual places, but not often enough that I want the tabs permanently in my field of view.
Basically, anything that will come up often, but is not there always. I could use bookmarks, I guess, but I like that tab groups are a little more alive than bookmarks. If I close a tab, add a tab, or fall deeper down a rabbit hole and navigate away from a page, my previous location is lost to time. And for my use case, that’s great.
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