Taproot Tabs

Your tabs as a tree in Chrome's side panel. Open a link in a new tab and it nests under the page it came from, so you can always see where a tab came from and what belongs together.

Add to Chrome: coming soon Free to use. Works in Chrome.

Chrome's side panel showing tabs as a tree: a Kyoto trip planning page with a guide, hotels and a forecast nested under it, and the guide's pages nested one level deeper. — A trip-planning session: every page sits under the one you opened it from.

What it does

Nests tabs automaticallyLinks you open in a new tab go under their page. A new tab from ⌘T or Ctrl+T starts its own tree.
Folds branches awayCollapse a branch to hide it in the panel. The tabs stay open, and the row shows how many are inside.
Drag to reorganizeDrop a tab on another to nest it, or between rows to move it. Its whole branch comes along, and Chrome's tab bar follows.
Survives a restartQuit Chrome, reopen it, and your trees come back the way you left them.
Saves workspacesSave a branch or a whole window by name and reopen it later as its own window, nesting and all.
Closes gentlyClose a page and its tabs move up a level instead of disappearing.

The tree with the Kyoto trip branch marked green and the Q4 budget branch marked blue. — Color the branches you're working in (Pro).

Price

	Free$0	Pro$9.99, paid once
Tab tree, nesting and drag and drop	Yes	Yes
Collapse, close branch, duplicate	Yes	Yes
Tree comes back after a restart	Yes	Yes
Saved workspaces	1	Unlimited
Search tabs	No	Yes
Sleep a branch to free memory	No	Yes
Tab colors	No	Yes
Light, dark and compact themes	Follows your system	Yes

No subscription. Upgrade from the ⋯ menu in the panel. Payment is handled by ExtensionPay and Stripe, and the extension never sees your card.

Guide: tree style tabs in Chrome, and how tab groups, vertical tabs and extensions compare.

Questions

Chrome warns it can "read your browsing history." Why?: Chrome shows that warning for any extension that can see tab titles and addresses, which Taproot needs to draw the tree and rebuild it after a restart. Everything stays in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere. See the privacy policy.
How do I open it?: Click the Taproot icon in the toolbar. If you don't see it, click the puzzle-piece icon and pin Taproot. To put the panel on the left, open Chrome Settings, then Appearance, then Side panel position.
Can it hide Chrome's tab bar along the top?: No. Chrome doesn't let extensions hide it, so the tree sits beside it.
I paid on another computer. How do I get Pro here?: Open the ⋯ menu in the panel, choose Upgrade, then "Already paid? Log in."
Something else?: Email dgraciano8424@gmail.com, including questions about a purchase.