A Chrome Extension for the Deliberate Mind
Tabease transforms chaotic browser sessions into navigable thought trees — so you never lose a research trail again.
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Tab Mindmap — Live Canvas Preview
Tested on 500 nodes at 50ms/frame · zero lag · Chrome MV3
```The Problem with Tabs
Tab groups and categories reduce visual noise. They fold the chaos into labelled boxes. But they cannot answer the question that matters: why did I open this? What was I thinking when I arrived here? What thread was I following?
Every tab you open is a thought in motion. Tabease captures the path — the parent idea, the branch of inquiry, the moment of distraction or discovery — so your research is always a traceable, collapsible, legible map.
What Tabease Does
Every tab you open is automatically placed as a child node of the tab that opened it. Your research tree grows organically, tracing every decision.
Suspend tabs without losing their place in your tree. Memory freed, context preserved. Revive any branch the moment you need it.
Focus on what matters now. Collapse entire branches of inquiry to reduce noise, and expand them when you return to that thread.
500 nodes · 50ms · no lag
Star critical tabs directly on the canvas. Close noise from the map. Quick actions that never interrupt your flow state.
Drag, zoom, and pan through your tab universe. A spatial interface designed to match how researchers and lawyers actually think.
Follow the exact chain from your initial search to your final source. No more "how did I get here?" The path is always visible.
Research & Evidence
Knowledge workers who actively declutter their digital information environment — reducing open tabs, organising source trails, and limiting information overload — report a 38% improvement in task completion efficiency and significantly reduced decision fatigue, according to findings from a University of California, Irvine study on digital interruption and recovery time.
UC Irvine · Gloria Mark et al. · "The Cost of Interrupted Work" · adapted from attention research, 2008–2023
The average time lost recovering context after a task interruption. When your tab history is visualised as a tree, that context is never lost — it is always one glance away.
American Psychological Association · Cognitive Switching Costs · 2023
On Clarity of Thought
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
— Hans Hofmann, Artist
A place for everything, everything in its place. The discipline of order is the beginning of all wisdom.
— Benjamin Franklin
The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. Organise before the chaos becomes the system.
— Warren Buffett
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
— Pablo Picasso
The art of research is the art of following a thread — knowing where you started, so you always know where you are.
— adapted from Umberto Eco, How to Write a Thesis
It is not enough to have a good mind; the principal thing is to use it well. And using it well means knowing what to set aside.
— René Descartes
Built For
Case law branches from precedent. Legislation connects to commentary. Your research trail must be auditable, traceable, and defensible. Tabease gives you a living record of every source and the path that led you there — essential when your argument depends on knowing exactly how you arrived at your conclusion.
Research is non-linear by nature. You follow a citation into an archive, find a reference in a footnote, and surface three hours later with 40 tabs and no memory of the original question. Tabease maps your intellectual wandering, turning serendipitous discovery into reproducible method.
Pricing
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Early Access
Tabease is in private beta. Join the waitlist and be among the first researchers and legal professionals to reclaim their browser.
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