Here within Google Chrome, there's a good chance that you're making use of the bookmarks bar. It's the easiest way to get to the websites that you frequent very often, but there may be a problem with this setup.
Now, we have an awful lot of tabs we need to manage up top, and the bookmarks bar area can get crowded very quickly. So, let's take a look at an alternative that I think makes so much more sense.
Here in my Google Chrome browser I have something here called G Productivity. You can see that it's listed here within the bookmarks bar, but when I click on it, it's going to automatically launch the three tabs that I want.
Now, that might not sound that impressive, but the better thing here is if I click on G Productivity, it's going to minimize everything within there, and I can move it anywhere that I like.
So, for example, if I want quick and easy access to my Gmail account, my Google Calendar, and my Google Tasks, but I want to minimize it when I don't want to see any of those notifications or any of those tabs, I can do so.
Now, what I am using here is called grouped tabs. Now, that's not anything new, but what is new is that we can now save those tabs, and add them to our bookmarks bar.
For example, here I am viewing my Gemini account, and perhaps I'd like to include it with this G Productivity group. What I'm going to do is just drag it over, and you can see that red color is now appearing over that tab.
I can put it in the order that I want, and then release it. Now, when I minimize or maximize this group, Gemini is included.
And, remember, you don't have to keep it up here. If I go and say "Hide this group," it's no longer appearing in this tab, but it will always appear here within my bookmarks bar. Let's create our own tab group here.
Maybe I want to keep my social media pages together because I always want to review them at the same time. All I need to do is right click on one of those tabs, and say, "Add tab to new group."
I'm going to select this option here, and I can name it. I'm going to name it "social media" in this case, the default color is going to be gray, but let's make this one blue.
And, the next step we want to take is to enable this toggle, "Save group." This is that more recent feature that we didn't have available to us in the past.
By selecting this, now, this will be added to my bookmarks bar. I'm going to go ahead and just drag in my LinkedIn and my Twitter tabs here. So, again, we have that same functionality available to us.
And, if I want to go ahead and open up that G Productivity, I can do that. Maybe I prefer to have that in the far left. I have saved so much real estate. I've got a grand total of seven tabs here that I can access them in just an instant, whenever I need to.
But, I'm not distracted by the number of unread messages or other alerts that I may see, but they are so much easier for me to get to.
So, if you want to clean up your bookmarks bar, and group relevant tabs together, be sure to experiment with Chrome tabbed groups, and let me know if you have any further questions in the comments down below.
Thank you so much for watching, and remember, being productive does not need to be difficult. In fact, it's very simple.
