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This whole browser<\/span> situation is utterly untenable.<\/p>\n I subscribe to a (really great) newsletter called \u201cToday in Tabs,\u201d the name of which sums up a problem that\u2019s surely not unique to me: By 5 p.m. EDT, I have a line of tabs of stories I want to read culled from Twitter, various Slack channels, email newsletters and homepages.<\/p>\n That\u2019s to say nothing about my job. If you\u2019re a \u201cknowledge worker,\u201d you invariably end your day with a slew of tabs that collectively become your to-do list, your reading list, your shopping list, your assorted communications channels. It\u2019s chaos, and it seems most of us are just \u2026 dealing with it?<\/p>\n There are, of course, tab-wrangling solutions in the market: Workona, Opera and Heyday, a vertical tabs feature recently introduced for Safari, etc.<\/p>\n I never considered any of them, and I\u2019m a terminally organized control freak obsessed with productivity. In other areas of my life, I look for ways to maximize the efficiency of how my space is arranged. But not my tabs.<\/p>\n This speaks to the hegemony of Chrome: I accepted that the collection of features bestowed upon us by Google was what I needed to do my job, shop online and keep track of my life. It never occurred to me that a bare minimum of four windows with \u2014 depending on the time of day \u2014 two to two dozen tabs apiece was excruciating<\/em>.<\/p>\n I know now that it is. In the interest of being a little servicey, let me tell you about Skeema, a fresh startup out of Carnegie Mellon University that could easily be tossed in the \u201ctabs management\u201d bucket, but actually does \u2014 and has the potential to do \u2014 so much more.<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t think about the fact that this obvious problem was even a problem<\/em> until a few weeks ago. A friend who works at CMU here in Pittsburgh dropped a link in our (Google, duh) chat to a Medium post written by Niki Kittur, a professor at CMU\u2019s Human-Computer Interaction Institute and the CEO\/founder of Skeema, a Chrome extension that immediately changed how I spend my day on the internet.<\/p>\n After using Skeema for just a few days and successfully corralling my tabs, I set up a chat with Kittur to learn how it came to exist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This whole browser situation is utterly untenable. I subscribe to a (really great) newsletter called \u201cToday in Tabs,\u201d the name of which sums up a problem that\u2019s surely not unique to me: By 5 p.m. EDT, I have a line of tabs of stories I want to read culled from Twitter, various Slack channels, email […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1216418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}