Tab Debt: Make Room for What Matters

Описание и применение

Tab Debt – это расширение Chrome, которое автоматически удаляет неактивные и дублирующие вкладки, сохраняя важные URL и создавая AI‑сводки в виде заметок и JSON‑журнала, тем самым экономя до 98 % времени на ручной очистке.

Задача

Users keep many Chrome tabs open, causing resource consumption, screen clutter, cognitive overload, and distraction.

Результат

Tab Debt reduces manual tab review time by roughly 95–98%, saves 58–79 minutes per 20 tabs, and removes duplicate/inactive tabs while preserving context via AI summaries and a JSON ledger.

Рабочий процесс

• User adds URLs to an "untouchable" list.
• Background service queries open Chrome tabs.
• Excludes active, protected, extension, and empty tabs.
• Groups remaining tabs by URL to find duplicates.
• Selects inactive or duplicate tabs for cleanup.
• Extracts visible page text and title.
• Sends data to Gemma 2 2B IT via Hugging Face Inference API.
• Receives concise one‑sentence summary.
• Stores summary and URL as a saved note.
• Closes the tab and downloads a JSON ledger of cleaned tabs.
• User can reopen a saved tab from the ledger or notes.

Доказательства

Tab Debt is an AI-assisted Chrome extension that helps clean up inactive and duplicate browser tabs without forcing users to decide manually what to keep.

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The extension scans open tabs across Chrome windows.

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Before closing tabs, the extension generates a short AI summary for each one.

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The extension extracts a limited amount of visible page text.

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Gemma produces a concise one-sentence summary.

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The result is a browser full of unfinished decisions.

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