Great potential with some little cons ๐
Hi guys,
first of all... I really like these kind of tools. I'm a big fan of Qlearly it makes a lot right and it is clean as well. I only bought TabExtend as a backup because I have heard (and experienced myself) that there is often no reply from the Qlearly support team which makes me worried.
TabExtend is really a clean tool with a modern vibe (something that is missing in Qlearly). Adding new bookmarks is easy and the ability to use color for notes and adjust the individual width of the columns is awesome. But the best feature (compared to Qlearly) is the ability to get into a new column set (inside your workspace) with one click. I always disliked using the dropdown menu in Qlearly when I wanted to switch my column set. With the sets above the columns, everything is so much faster and way more convenient. You can also mark text on any website and save it as a note in every column with the right click context menu. The roadmap looks exciting as well:
๐ Share groups via public URL
๐ Access notes and more options through in-site-popover
๐ Integrations(Google, Zapier, IFTTT, and more)
๐ Tab/group reminders/schedule โ love this one!
๐ Grid view and more viewing options
๐ Tab group syncing
๐ Session management
Everything great so far, right?!
But here are my cons that make this just a 3-4 Taco review:
โ No global search ๐ช! You can just search in each workspace and this is a no go for me. When I have the freedom to create 10+ workspace to organize myself, then I can't search in all workspaces from one search field? I seriously need to be in the workspace where the bookmark is located?! I have so many tools. Sometimes I just remember the name of the tool not the place where the bookmark is based. Without a global search, I have to make a search in every workspace to find "lost bookmarks". I really can't stress this enough ๐ ๐ฅ!
โ If I search for a bookmark and click on it, this will open the new tab in the TabExtend tab. Even if I have set to open link in a new tab in the settings! This is so annoying because I use TabExtend as a pined tab to get more space and need to pin it again every time I forget to use 3rd mouse to open the searched bookmark in a new window ๐ก.
โ When you click on a bookmark it will open in a new window, but you won't jump into this window and stay in the TabExtend tab! Sure, this is nice if you want to open many bookmarks but lets me honest... most of the time, we want to open just one bookmark to visit this site. So why I have to click on the new tab manually?
โ I have copied this review text into TabExtend as note and half of the text was cut off, so I had to write it again ๐. Common TabExtend... want to love you but you give me a very hard time to do so.
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