Organize what's open. Recover what's closed. Hand the rest to Chat. In the side panel or over the page.
Keep your organized tabs visible while you browse, instead of reopening the popup every time you need them. Switch surfaces from Account → Nest window; it applies the next time you click the Nest icon. Your tab strip is untouched. More on the side panel.
Automatic local copies of your tabs, categories, sessions and notes, taken before anything that could change a lot at once. Restoring always saves the current state first, so it can be undone. Snapshots are checksummed against corruption and stored on your machine — they are not cloud backups and not encrypted. Free, and kept to ten snapshots within a local storage budget so they cannot crowd out your data.
Categories and domain rules, tab snoozing, notes, search across open and closed tabs, one-click restore of what you closed, the local Vault, Chrome tab-group syncing, and up to 3 named sessions. No account, nothing uploaded, no trial clock on any of it. Pro makes sessions unlimited and adds cloud sync across devices, export to HTML or JSON, and NEST Chat — and if you never want those, the free extension is not a stripped demo of them.
They are one workflow, not five utilities. A domain rule files a tab into a category the moment it opens, so the sorting happens without you. Snooze takes the ones you are not using this week off screen and brings them back on a date you chose. A note explains why a tab was worth keeping, which is usually the thing you forget first and the thing that lets you close it. A named session turns the whole arrangement into something you can reopen on Monday. And the closed-tab list plus the Vault mean none of it is one misclick from gone.
It does not replace Chrome’s tab strip, and it does not nest tabs into a tree — Chrome now has its own vertical tab layout, and Nest runs beside it. It does not suspend or discard tabs to reclaim memory; Chrome’s Memory Saver already does that, and doing it twice helps nobody. It does not read what is on your pages unless you ask NEST Chat to, and Chat is optional and off by default. A tab manager that claims everything is why people stop trusting the category.