Link center: tabs, sessions, spaces and library
Everything about your tabs on one Notebook screen: save and close like OneTab, get your previous session back, work in spaces and organize your links.
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The Link center lives in the Notebook, under the Links type. There you see all your open tabs, save and close whole windows, get back what you had open if you close the browser, split your work into spaces and organize the links you save.
It's designed so you don't need another extension for your tabs: you can bring over what you have in OneTab, Session Buddy, Workona, Toby or Raindrop, and take it with you whenever you want.
1How to open the Link center
Open the Notebook
Press Alt+Q or open it from the popup. You can also right-click the NexoPad icon and choose Link center: tabs and sessions.
Choose “Links”
At the top left, choose the Links type. The left column shows Open now, Spaces, Sessions and Import and, below them, your Library with its folders.
Search with `Ctrl+K`
The search box at the top finds your snippets, notes and links and, in the Link center, your open tabs and saved sessions too.
2Open now: all your windows at a glance
- All your tabs, by window and by group, with each tab group's name and color.
- Duplicates: NexoPad flags tabs that are open twice and closes them all at once.
- Sleep: tabs unused for over an hour go to sleep in one click to free up memory. They stay put and reload when you click them. To have it happen on its own, click the 🌙 at the top and turn on Put tabs to sleep automatically: pick how long to wait (30 minutes to 4 hours) and NexoPad does it for you. It never touches pinned tabs, tabs playing sound or the one you're looking at.
- Pick and act: select some tabs to Save and close, Save to folder, Add to a space, Open in new window or Close.
- Save and close all saves all your windows in Sessions and closes them. Pinned tabs stay open.
3Save and close, like OneTab
From the popup
Press + and choose Save and close tabs: that window's tabs are saved and closed.
From the Notebook
In Open now, press Save and close all for all your windows, or select just the tabs you want.
With a right-click
Right-click the page or the NexoPad icon and choose Save and close this window's tabs.
Come back anytime
Everything waits in Sessions, ready to reopen whole, by window or tab by tab.
4Sessions: your saved tabs
Each session keeps its windows, tabs and tab groups. You can reopen it whole, open a single window or a single tab, rename it or delete it.
Previous session: NexoPad keeps track of which tabs you have open. If you close the browser, or it crashes, with tabs open, the previous session shows up in the list when you come back. If the browser already gave you your tabs back, none is created. The last 30 automatic sessions are kept; the ones you save yourself are never deleted on their own.
Export: each session can be exported as text (just like OneTab), bookmarks (.html), a spreadsheet (.csv), Markdown for your notes or JSON, or copied as text.
In your account: when you're signed in, the sessions you save, import or name are saved to your account and show up on all your computers; each one says which computer it came from. The last 5 automatic sessions go to your account too, and each computer still keeps its last 30.
5Spaces: one window per project
Create a space
Open the project's pages in one window and choose Save window as space in the popup's + menu or under Spaces in the Notebook. Give it a name, icon and color.
Work in peace
Whatever you open and close in that window is saved automatically. Pinned tabs you already had don't become part of the space. If you close the browser, the window links back to its space when you return.
Switch spaces
Switch to this swaps the window's tabs for the space's; what was there is saved to its space or to Sessions, and you can press Undo. Open separately opens it in a new window, and Close and save closes it when you're done.
Keep what you use alongside
In Next to this space you add notes (with checkboxes you tick right there), snippets and reference links. The popup and the side panel show them whenever you're in that space.
6In your account and with your team
- On all your computers: when you're signed in, your spaces, your saved sessions and your Read later list are saved to your account and show up in every browser where you use NexoPad.
- Share it with your team (Teams plan): in the space's ⋯ menu, choose Share with the team. Your teammates see it as “From the team” and can open it, but only you can change it.
- Make it yours: if a teammate's space is useful to you, Make my own copy copies it to your spaces so you can change it as you like.
- Stop sharing removes it from your team's spaces at the next sync.
7Library: your links as cards or on a board
- List, Cards or Board: choose how to see them with the switch at the top. In Cards you see the image each site publishes for sharing; in Board, one column per folder, and you drag a link to move it to another folder.
- Handy filters: duplicate links (with a button to merge them), links that are not responding (NexoPad checks once a week, without your cookies) and links unused for 90 days.
- Open all opens the links you see and asks first if there are more than 15.
- Export saves the links you see as bookmarks (.html, with your folders and groups), a spreadsheet (.csv), Markdown, text or JSON.
- They're the same links as in the popup and the side panel, and they count toward your plan's limit.
8Read later: save now, read later
Save it with the book 📖
In Open now, hover over a tab and click the book 📖. You can also do it from the popup: press + and choose Read later to save the page you're on.
Find it in “Read later”
In the left column, under Pinned, you'll find Read later with the number of unread pages. It opens as cards, with each site's image.
Mark it as read
Click ✓ Done and it moves to Read. Nothing is deleted: the link stays in your library, and Mark as unread puts it back on the list.
If the page was already in your library, it's just marked to read; if it's new, it's saved to General and counts as one of your plan's links.
Import from other extensions
| From | What you do there |
|---|---|
OneTab | What you do there Copy the list with Export URLs and paste it into NexoPad |
Session Buddy | What you do there Export as .json (or .csv) |
Workona | What you do there Your account → Export data (.json) |
Toby | What you do there Its .json export |
Raindrop.io | What you do there Export → .csv |
Bookmarks | What you do there An .html file or this browser's bookmarks |
In Links › Import you choose where they come from, and NexoPad shows how many links it found, which ones repeat and which ones you already had. Then you decide whether they arrive as sessions, spaces or library folders. Nothing is deleted in the other extension, and you can undo the import.
10In the side panel and the popup
In the side panel, the Tabs tab shows this window's tabs with their groups (which you can collapse), duplicates, tabs you can put to sleep and your other windows. If the window is a space, its notes and snippets are at the top, and its menu lets you switch to another space.
And when the window is a space, the three dots below the popup's header take its color in the Links view. Click them and the first button in the filters is the space: it opens its bar with its notes and snippets, and from its name you open it in the Notebook or switch the window to another space.
What's saved where
| Where it's saved | Limit | |
|---|---|---|
Sessions | Where it's saved In your account (saved ones and the last 5 automatic ones) and on this computer | Limit Basic use on Free; unlimited on Pro and Teams |
Spaces | Where it's saved In your account, when you're signed in | Limit Basic use on Free; unlimited on Pro and Teams |
Library | Where it's saved In your account | Limit Your plan's (unlimited with Pro) |
Read later | Where it's saved In your account | Limit They're links in your library |
Automatic sleep | Where it's saved It's a setting on this computer | Limit Free for everyone |
Previews and “not responding” alerts | Where it's saved On this computer | Limit — |
Warning
What it doesn't do: it doesn't keep a history of every tab you close by hand (for that, Ctrl+Shift+T) and it doesn't change your new tab page. In Firefox and Opera, tab groups open as regular tabs, and Opera has no side panel.
12Frequently asked questions
Where is the Link center?
In the Notebook (Alt+Q), under the Links type. You can also open it by right-clicking the NexoPad icon → Link center: tabs and sessions.
Are sessions saved to the cloud?
Yes. When you're signed in, your saved sessions and the last 5 automatic ones go to your account and show up on all your computers. You can also export them whenever you want.
What happens to my pinned tabs?
Save and close leaves them open unless you select them yourself. And if a window had pinned tabs when you turn it into a space, those don't become part of the space.
Can I undo a space switch?
Yes. When you press Switch to this, Undo appears for a few seconds. And even if you don't press it, what was in the window was saved to its space or to Sessions.
Does automatic sleep close my tabs?
No. A sleeping tab stays where it is, with its title; it just stops using memory and reloads when you click it. It's off by default: turn it on with the 🌙 in Open now and turn it off the same way.
Does it cost anything?
Sessions and spaces work on the Free plan for basic use and are unlimited on Pro and Teams. Library links (including Read later) count toward your plan's limit, and sharing spaces with your team is part of the Teams plan. Automatic sleep is free for everyone.