Save All Open Tabs in Chrome — Without Losing the Session

It starts innocently — you open a few tabs for research, then a few more for comparison, then a few more while waiting for something to load. Before long you have 30 tabs open, Chrome is using 2 GB of RAM, and closing any of them feels risky because you might need that page later. Most people let the pile grow rather than lose the links. Boardmarks solves this at the source: save all open tabs into boards in one click, then close the window clean.

Open the Boardmarks extension popup from the Chrome toolbar. Choose to save the active tab or all open tabs in the current window. Links land on boards in your visual bookmark manager so you can reopen the set later from your New Tab. The Quick Save board is designed for fast, unsorted additions — capture everything now, organize into labeled boards later when you have time.

Unlike Chrome's built-in "Bookmark all tabs" which saves links into a dated folder in the bookmark bar, Boardmarks saves tabs onto visual boards you can see, rearrange, and add context to. The saved session becomes a named board you can return to — not a buried folder you forget exists.

• Research sessions — save 20 tabs of articles, comparisons, or documentation before ending the session without reading them all.
• Shopping comparisons — save product tabs to a board so you can return and compare later without rebrowsing.
• End-of-day cleanup — close all tabs with confidence before shutting down. Tomorrow you pick up from the board.
• Switching machines — save your working session on one computer, access the boards on another.
• Reducing Chrome memory usage — close tabs you are not actively using, knowing the links are safely on boards.
• Project handoffs — save all relevant tabs for a project into a named board to share context with a colleague.

Boardmarks gives you two saving strategies. Quick Save is designed for speed — it captures a tab immediately without asking where it goes. This is the right choice when you are in the middle of something and do not want to stop to pick a board. Later, from your New Tab, you can drag Quick Save bookmarks to the right board, rename them, or delete the ones you no longer need.

Targeted board saving is for when you know what project a set of tabs belongs to. From the popup you can select a specific board so the tabs land exactly where they should — ready to use without any reorganizing.

After saving, boards on your New Tab bookmark manager hold the links as visual cards. You can rename boards by project — "Client Proposal Research," "Apartment Hunt," "Side Project Reading" — then rearrange, resize, and color them so the most-used ones are always in view. Each board is a persistent working set that is there when you need it and out of the way when you do not.

After you save tabs, continue on the same New Tab with todos, notes, and reminders — the reason Boardmarks is a Chrome New Tab productivity extension, not only a tab saver. A typical end-of-day flow: save all open tabs to boards, add a todo for the most important follow-up, write a scratch note with tomorrow's priority, then close everything and step away knowing no work is lost.

Saved tabs become bookmarks stored in Chrome local storage by default. Your browsing sessions stay on your device — Boardmarks does not send your URLs to a server during normal use. Optional cloud backup is available for Pro users after Google sign-in for licensing, so your boards are recoverable if you reset Chrome or switch profiles.