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Tab Clusters

Save a group of open Results tabs together as a single recallable cluster. Reopen the whole working set with one click, color-code them on the tab strip, and rearrange them like browser tabs.

What it is

A Tab Cluster is a saved set of Results tabs — each with its own search field, search word, and search blocks — that you can reopen as a group later. Think of it as a workspace bookmark: every project you keep coming back to (e.g. “Footsteps + Cloth + Doors” for a Foley session) can be saved as one cluster instead of re-typing each search.

Tab Clusters live alongside individual saved searches in the Favorites node in the NodeTree. Each Tab Cluster row carries a colored pill and the stacked-blocks icon; regular saved searches keep the star icon.

Favorites node showing six saved Tab Clusters above two regular saved searches

Save a Tab Cluster

In the NodeTree, open the Favorites node’s ⋯ menu and pick “Save current tabs as Tab Cluster…”.

  • Every open Results tab that has run at least one search is captured. Tabs that have never been searched are skipped.
  • Each captured tab records its search field set, search word, and search blocks, so recall re-runs the exact query that produced the original results.

Recall a Tab Cluster

Each Tab Cluster row gives you two ways to recall it:

  • Recall button (forward-arrow icon on the right) — Replace mode. Closes every non-main Results tab, reuses the main tab for the first saved tab, and opens a fresh tab for each remaining one. Clean-slate recall.
  • Click the row body (anywhere not on a button) — Append mode. Keeps every currently open Results tab and just opens new tabs for each saved tab. Additive recall.

After either recall the main search bar is cleared, since you’re now looking at a multi-tab cluster rather than one active query.

Manage a saved cluster

Each Tab Cluster row shows a distinct stacked-blocks icon, a colored pill (8-color palette, cycled by index), a “N tabs” chip, and these per-row buttons:

  • Recall — Replace-mode recall (see above).
  • Update (refresh icon) — replaces the cluster’s saved tabs with whatever Results tabs are currently open and have a search.
  • Remove — confirms, then deletes the cluster.

Hovering a Tab Cluster row shows a numbered list of its saved tab search words. “Clear All Favorites” leaves saved Tab Clusters intact.

On the Results tab strip

Results tab strip showing four Tab Clusters in different colors alongside ungrouped tabs

Tabs that belong to a cluster render as a visible, Chrome-style group on the tab strip:

  • A colored band wraps the contiguous run of member tabs, rounded on the first and last tab of the run.
  • A colored header pill with the cluster name leads the group.
  • Each member tab carries a flat color line matching the cluster.
  • If the strip has too many tabs to fit, it wraps to additional rows rather than overflowing off the right edge.

When two or more Results tabs are open, each tab auto-titles to its search word (truncated to 24 chars with …). With only one Results tab open, the title reverts to the generic “Results.”

Drag-to-recluster

  • Drag a tab between two members of a cluster to join it.
  • Drag it out of the cluster’s contiguous run to remove it.
  • Reordering tabs within a cluster rewrites the saved order, so a later recall replays them in the new order.
  • Membership and order changes persist immediately.

Right-click menus

On a tab

  • New cluster from this tab… — prompts for a name and creates a new saved cluster seeded from that tab’s search.
  • Add to Tab Cluster ▸ — submenu listing every saved cluster. Picking one appends this tab’s search to that cluster (saved) and tags the tab as a live member (color line + band update).
  • Disabled hints: “(run a search in this tab first)” if the tab has no search yet, or “(no tab clusters saved yet)” if none exist.

On a cluster’s header pill

  • Rename… — updates the tree row and every open member tab.
  • Change color ▸ — recolors the pill, band, line, and tree row.
  • New Tab in Cluster — opens a fresh Results tab already inside the cluster.
  • Close Cluster — closes the cluster’s open tabs. The saved cluster stays recallable. The main Results tab can’t be closed, so it’s just removed from the cluster.
  • Ungroup — removes the open tabs from the cluster but leaves them open. The saved cluster stays recallable.
  • Delete Cluster — confirms, then deletes the cluster and ungroups its open tabs.

Storage

Tab Clusters persist in the same JSON store as Favorite Searches (FavoriteTabClusterStores in SearchStoreOption), so they survive app launches and back up the same way.

Tab Clusters were previously called “Tab Groups.” Same feature, name only.