Core How-Tos

Save Tabs, Temp Notes & Push to Mobile

Three small tools that catch the things a sidebar full of tidy sections doesn't: the working set of tabs you're not ready to lose, the note you need for the next ten minutes, and the links you want on your phone.

Save Tabs — keep a working set

You've got eleven tabs open on one problem and you need the window for something else. Save Tabs turns all of them into a new section at the top of your sidebar in one click.

  1. Click Save Tabs in the sidebar toolbar — or run it from the command bar with >save.
  2. Confirm the count when prompted.
  3. The new section appears at the top, named with the date and time it was taken (for example Tabs — 2026-07-30 14:22).

Only real web pages are saved — http, https, and local file URLs. Chrome's own internal pages and empty tabs are skipped, so you don't get a section full of noise. Rename the section, reorder it, or delete links from it exactly as you would any other.

Temp Notes — a scratch pad in the footer

Temp Notes is a plain text panel that lives at the bottom of the sidebar. Click the notes button in the toolbar (or run >notes) to show and hide it.

Type into it and it saves as you go — there's no save button. It's the right place for a ticket number, a snippet of output, a half-drafted message: things you need for the next few minutes and don't want to give a home to.

The panel's controls let you make it fit whatever you're doing:

  • Font size — the − and + buttons scale the text.
  • Minimize and Maximize — shrink it to a strip or give it most of the sidebar.
  • Hide — close the panel; your text is kept.

Your notes stay on your machine, alongside the rest of your data, and are included when you take a backup.

Push to Mobile — your links on your phone

The sidebar is a desktop tool, but the links in it are often exactly what you want on your phone. Push to Mobile writes a read-only copy of your sections and bookmarks into Chrome's own bookmarks, in a folder called URLflows (do not modify), which Chrome sync then carries to your signed-in devices.

  1. Click Push to Mobile in the toolbar — or run >push from the command bar.
  2. Read the confirmation, which tells you exactly which folder is about to be written.
  3. Confirm.
Push to Mobile is one-way, and it replaces. Anything already inside the URLflows (do not modify) folder is erased and rewritten each time you push, so the copy always matches your sidebar. Don't edit bookmarks inside that folder — treat it as output, not storage. Changes made there are lost on the next push, and never travel back to the sidebar.

Keeping the phone copy current

The copy is a snapshot, not a live link. Add a section on your laptop and your phone won't see it until you push again. Push whenever you've made changes worth carrying over — it's a single click, and it always replaces cleanly rather than piling up duplicates.

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