PawTabs

Tabs for people with too many tabs.

PawTabs is a Chrome tab manager that names and colors your windows, tags and annotates any URL, snapshots your sessions for safe restore, and helps you clean up without losing your place. Everything is local — no telemetry, no accounts, no cloud.

What it does

Nine ways PawTabs helps

Paw the URL

Save any URL persistently. Even after you close the tab it's still there in the Pawed list.

Custom tags

Stack multiple tags per URL (Work, Reading, AI…). Browse tabs by tag in Mission Control.

Attach notes

Add reminders, review comments, next steps. Notes persist by URL — outlive the tab.

Name + color windows

"Work" blue, "Weekend" amber. Colors ripple through the popup, group headers, and window chips.

Snapshots & auto-save

Save current tabs on a schedule (or manually). Restore any snapshot per-window or as one flat list.

Smart restore

Restores 90 tabs in ~1s. Each opens as an inert placeholder — no network hit until you click it.

Cleanup Wizard

Guided walkthrough that closes stale tabs safely. Every step auto-backs up before touching Chrome.

Command palette (⌘K)

Fast jump to any tab, tag, or snapshot without leaving the keyboard.

Local-only, no telemetry

No accounts. No servers. No analytics SDKs. Uninstall removes everything.

See it in action

Screenshots

Popup
PawTabs popup with grouped tabs, colored windows, tag/note counts
Group by window. Tag/note counts inline, colored group headers, current-tab card at top.
Tab details modal with paw active, 3 tags (Research, Reading, AI), 1 note, move-to-window picker
Tab details. Pawed, 3 stacked tags (Research · Reading · AI), an existing note, move-to-window picker.
Mission Control (Pack)
Mission Control Overview with browser state, top domains, timeline, tag cloud
Overview. 84 tabs across 6 windows, top domains, timeline, 23 tags, 39 tabs with notes — at a glance.
Windows view with 6 named + colored windows in a grid
Windows. Named + colored (Work · Research · Weekend · Learning · Finance · Music) with compact tab rows inside.
Tags view with 25 custom tags in sidebar and Work tag's URLs on the right
Tags. 25 custom labels. Every URL keeps its labels even after the tab closes.
Yours, not ours

Privacy

PawTabs is a fully local Chrome extension. It does not collect, transmit, store on remote servers, or share any of your data. There is no analytics, no telemetry, no third-party SDKs, and no account system.

What it stores locally: tags, notes, snapshots, wizard backups, window names/colors, and preferences — all in chrome.storage.local on your device.

What it does not do: it does not send any data over the network, does not use cookies, does not track you across sites, does not sync between devices, and does not include analytics SDKs.

Uninstalling the extension removes all PawTabs storage — Chrome guarantees full cleanup.

Read the full policy →