Support pinned tabs in groups

[TBG-FR]

Hello there !

First of all, thanks for this great tool. Being able to import all our mess from Tabs Outliner is awesome, implemented features are great, even the fact that you make us of Google Chrome groups is really smart.

However I have an issue with that... I'm used to pin important tabs I want to keep (especially when searching for something or coding) and open a lot of "non-pinned" tabs. After importing from Tabs Outliner, all my tabs were unpinned (which is not a big deal), but as soon as I pin a tab, it gets out of the tabs group (which I believe is a Google Chrome behaviour) and disappear from the BrainTool UI 😅

Do you have any advice or workaround for that ? Or is it possible to avoid using groups as asked in #2 ? (even if it looks useful)

Many thanks in advance !

[tconfrey]

Hi @TBG-FR
You are correct that Chrome does not support having pinned tabs in tab groups. However its also true that BrainTool does not support saving pinned tabs. It's been on my list as an enhancement request for quite a while, but TBH has never seemed very important.

Pinned tabs seem to me, and to Google I think, as in a different class. They are the handful of tabs you want always present. BT is focused on helping you save and organize the resources you want to get back to, since pinned tabs are always present they don't really fall into that category.

Its also true that the Chrome behavior would make it hard to do given the assumption that tab groups are used to display the items in a saved topic and pinned tabs can't be in a group, so they'd be a special case. Currently dragging tabs into or out of a tab group adds or removes them from the associated BT topic. Pinning a tab moves it out of its group and BT see's that as you saying it should not be saved.

Sorry for the unsatisfying answer!