u/DogZealousideal5717

Problem: If you use more than one browser on your Mac, you already know the pain - bookmarks in three different places, tabs scattered across windows, and no single place to manage any of it. Safari for personal, Chrome for work, maybe Brave or Firefox for something else. Every browser has its strengths, but none of them talk to each other.

So I built one place that does.

Meet SupaSidebar: One sidebar to organize your tabs, bookmarks, and apps - across every browser on your Mac

What it does:

• Save links, files and folders with global shortcuts
• Fuzzy search open tabs, browser history and saved links
• Open saved links in any browser with a click
• Common browser history across browsers
• iCloud Sync

vs. Browser extensions (OneTab, etc.): Only work inside one browser. Use Safari + Chrome? You need two extensions that don't talk to each other. SSB sits outside the browser as a system-wide app, so your tabs, bookmarks, and history are in one place regardless of which browser you're in.

vs. Bookmark managers (Raindrop, Anybox, etc.): A separate app you have to remember to open. As one user put it - "Anybox does not have the nearness and instantly usable nature of a bookmarks menu." SupaSidebar lives right next to your browser as a sidebar, so it's always there. No extra step

vs. Arc Browser: locks you into one browser. If you need Chrome extensions, Safari's privacy, etc., you're stuck. SSB gives you the same sidebar experience across whatever browsers you actually use.

what's new 0.16.0:

• Space color tinting - instant visual cue for which workspace you're in
• Privacy blocklist - exclude any site or browser from SupaSidebar
• Per-space browser - Safari for personal, Chrome for work, each space gets its own default

for more info (6+ features and 20+ improvements) visit the changelog on website.

Pricing: Free up to 3 spaces | $34.99 lifetime| $10/yr or $2/mo subs as a cheaper alternative.

Giveaway: 10 people can get lifetime for $24.99 using code: 8PFY7G72EF2 (auto expire on limit hit)

Get it at supasidebar.com or brew install --cask supasidebar

Built by me: github.com/auspy

so i finally looked at my browser situation today and it was genuinely bad. hundreds of tabs in chrome for work, another bunch in safari for personal stuff and AI tools. i can't read a single tab title in either browser, they're just crushed little favicons at this point. no idea when it got this bad but here we are.

the worst part is whenever i need something i had open earlier, i just google it again. open a new tab. so now i have duplicates of stuff that was already open somewhere. and i never close anything because what if i need it later right? so it just keeps growing.

the thing that really messed me up was using two browsers. chrome for work, safari for personal - which sounds organized but in practice it means i literally cannot see everything i have open. i'm constantly cmd-tabbing between them trying to remember where i saw something. half the time i give up and just search it again.

someone on this sub posted a while back about saving 497 tabs into a text file and feeling organized for about 3 days before being back to 59 tabs. felt that in my soul lol

anyway here's what actually ended up helping after trying basically everything:

stopped treating tabs as bookmarks. an open tab is not a save-for-later system, it's just something i haven't closed yet. once i actually accepted that, things got easier.

started doing this thing where instead of leaving 40 tabs open from a research session, i save them all into a folder with a name like "api research april" and close everything. fresh browser. the important thing is nothing is lost, i can go back and find it whenever. but my browser is clean and i can actually think.

searching instead of scrolling. this one sounds dumb but i spent years clicking through tabs one by one looking for that one page. just searching for it is so much faster and i don't know why it took me this long.

the multi-browser thing i solved by getting an app that shows tabs from both browsers in one sidebar. i actually built a mac app that does this in my free time - it shows all open tabs from every browser in one list and you can search across everything. made a short 1 min video showing how it works if anyone wants to see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-qDlVV9T9g

but honestly even without any app, just the habit of saving your tabs somewhere before moving on instead of keeping 200 tabs open "just in case" - that alone is a huge difference. the clean browser feeling after dumping everything into a folder is weirdly satisfying.

idk if the multi-browser problem is common or if most people just stick to one browser. that was the part that drove me the most crazy.