How to Open the Same Tabs Every Morning in Chrome

Method 1: Chrome’s startup pages

1. Open chrome://settings/onStartup.
2. Choose Open a specific page or set of pages.
3. Add each address, or press Use current pages to take every tab open now.

Every time Chrome starts, those pages open. That is the limit: it is tied to starting Chrome, not to a time. If you leave Chrome running overnight, nothing happens in the morning. If you start Chrome at lunch to look something up, the whole set opens anyway. And there is one set for every day; no weekday variation, no tab groups, no second routine.

Best for: people who quit Chrome every evening and want exactly one set of pages each morning.

Method 2: a bookmarks folder

Put the routine’s pages in one bookmarks folder, then right-click the folder in the bookmarks bar and choose Open all (or Open all in new window). It takes two clicks instead of five, keeps any number of routines, and needs no extension.

It is still you doing the opening, at a time you have to remember. Bookmarks also carry no tab groups or pinned tabs, so the set comes back as a flat row, and Chrome opens every page at once, which is slow for a big folder.

Best for: routines you want on demand rather than on a clock.

Method 3: a Scheduled Session

Nest, a free tab manager for Chrome, can open a saved session on chosen weekdays at a time. A session is a set of tabs saved with its windows, its Chrome tab groups and its pinned tabs, so what opens at nine looks like what you saved, not a list.

1. Open the tabs the way you want them, grouped and pinned as they should be.
2. Open Nest, go to Backup, name the session and choose what to save: this tab group, this window or all windows. Press Save.
3. On the session’s card, open the ⋯ menu and choose Schedule….
4. Pick the weekdays and the time, then Save schedule. The card now reads “Opens weekdays at 9:00 AM”, or whatever you chose.

At that time, on that computer, the session opens in new windows with its groups and pins. Two details make it behave well:

• No duplicates. If the session is already open here as a Live Session, Nest brings its window to the front instead of opening a second copy.
• Never late without asking. If Chrome was closed at the time, or the computer was asleep, Nest does not open twelve tabs when you come back. It shows one notification, “Your scheduled session is ready”, with an Open button, and opens nothing until you press it. The card says “Missed today” so you can see which session it was.

Schedules live on one computer; a session synced to a second computer has no schedule there until you add one. The free plan keeps one schedule active, which is enough for the morning routine; Pro schedules as many sessions as you like, so the standup set, the Tuesday course and the Sunday reading can each have their own.

Best for: a routine that should happen at a time, with tab groups intact, without you remembering it.

Which one to use

• One set of pages, and you quit Chrome daily: startup pages.
• Several sets, opened when you decide: bookmarks folders.
• A set that should open itself at a time, with its groups: a Scheduled Session.

They combine. Startup pages can open your mail and calendar whenever Chrome starts, and a Scheduled Session can open the project’s windows at nine. The point is to stop re-opening tabs you open every day, and to notice when a routine changes: a schedule you keep editing is a set of tabs that is no longer a routine.