UI and workflow preferences

Until now, Tablerone could be used only as a permanently pinned Index Tab. A lot of people were bothered by that. Version 1.8.4 introduces two new User Interface modes to support a wider range of workflow preferences.

— User Interface modes
— (Don’t) Close tabs after saving
— Toolbar button function
— Shortcuts

User Interface modes

	Index Tab (default)	New Tab	Toolbar only
Position	Inserts itself as the first pinned tab in every window	Inserts itself as the New Tab page	Enhances the Save Menu pop-up with core Tablerone features
Shortcut	Focused with Cmd+1	Opened with Cmd+T	Opened with Cmd+Shift+.
Presence	Always visible	Visible only when open	Visible only when open
Best for	Most users. Optimised for point-and-click usage. It helps with window management and adopting the habit of saving entire sessions instead of individual links.	Users proficient with browser shortcuts. Using it feels a bit like the Portal video game where you open a wormhole to go some place else, which closes itself after you walk through.	Users who want minimal changes to their existing workflow. It helps with window management and supports all Save Menu shortcuts.

(Don’t) Close tabs after saving

Preference behaviour

	ON (default)	OFF
After saving:	Closes tabs	Leaves tabs open
Confirms saving by…	Opens a Tablerone tab	Shows a pop-up notification
Save Menu: all tabs…	Pre-selected	Deselected
Optimised for:	Tablerone workflow of separating sessions into windows, and closing them when you’re done	Typical bookmarking workflow of using one window for everything and adding links to folders

Shift live-toggle

Press and hold the Shift key and hover over the “Save & close” button to toggle between ON/OFF modes live on the Tablerone timeline to live-switch between “Save & Close” and “Save | Close”.