TabStax — The Browser Surface
TabStax is the Chrome extension that started it all. It turns your browser into a workspace launcher.
You’re deep in a project — six tabs open, a spreadsheet, two docs, a Jira board, a Slack thread. You need to leave. Tomorrow you won’t remember which tabs, which doc, what you were about to do next.
TabStax captures all of that in one click. Name it. Add a next action. Close everything. When you come back — tomorrow, next week, next month — open the Stax. Every tab loads. The next action is right there. You’re working in seconds, not minutes. Momentum preserved.
What TabStax does
- Save a Stax — captures every tab in your current window as a named workspace
- Restore a Stax — opens all tabs in one click, exactly as you left them
- Next actions — concrete steps attached to this workspace, visible the moment you open it
- Tags — inline
#tagsyntax for organising Stax by project, client, or theme - Priority — Must / Should / Good / Meh — so you know which Stax to enter first
- Share — generate a link that gives someone else your full workspace and next actions
- Auto-sync — changes sync to the cloud for Pro users, accessible from every other surface
TabStax is the entry point most people use when they first encounter HeyStax. Install it, save your tabs as a Stax, and you’ve already started.
How it connects to the rest of HeyStax
TabStax is one surface in the system, not the whole product.
When you save a Stax in the extension, that Stax exists on every other surface too. The next actions you add in the popup appear in the dashboard and the CLI. The tabs you save are visible on the share page. If you’ve connected an AI via MCP, it can read and update that same Stax through conversation.
The extension is where most re-entry happens — you click the icon, see your projects, open the right one. But the Stax itself lives in HeyStax, not in your browser. Tabs are just the entry point. The real value is the next action.
Get started
TabStax is available on the Chrome Web Store. It works in Chrome, Edge, and Brave.
- Install TabStax from the Chrome Web Store
- Click the extension icon in your toolbar
- What you see the first time you open it →
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