Tabs to Links 4+

Simple, flexible way to save your open tabs

There are a few different utilities that let you save your collections of open Safari tabs, including the new Tab Groups built into Safari.

Tabs to Links is both simpler and more flexible, letting you save rich text, plain text, or Markdown version of your tabs, for either the current window, or all windows.

I use it to save lists of links that I can paste into either Notes or a Markdown document. It's a lot less fiddly than Tab Groups, and it's easy to edit the lists wherever you paste them.

If Tab Groups work for you, you might not need this. But I find that Tab Groups change out from under me, when I open/close new tabs. Tabs to Links lets you freeze a moment in time, which is often what I _really_ want.

Excellent way to quickly save and share a set of links

I love the idea of this app. My primary use case is being able to quickly copy/paste a set of bookmarks in to apps like FSNotes, vim, etc. I can open "Tabs to Links" and quickly hit "Cmd-C" (which copies the tab titles and URLs) in both rich text and plain text... and depending on the capabilities of the app you're pasting in, will use the "right" format.

There is one feature still missing that would be VERY helpful: the ability to "blacklist" URLs (with wildcard support, so you can blacklist entire domains) so they don't ever show up in "Tabs to Links". I have pinned tabs for things like my email, task manager, etc. and these tabs show up in *every* window selected via the dropdown menu.

Thanks to the dev for updating the app to be able to quickly copy the titles and URLs via keyboard shortcut, and adding checkboxes to make removing tabs from the share list easier.

Developer Response ,

Hi Eddy,

We updated the app to add plain text support and Markdown export. You can also now select 'All Windows' as an option. Does this address your issues? If it does, we would appreciate if you could update your review as appropriate.

Now Definitely a Five Star App!

Below was my original review. I also emailed the developer with other issues that I thought needed improvement. I didn't get an email reply, but my feedback was definitely taken into account and all of the things I mentioned have been fixed. I love this app now. It is a great way to archive a set of links from research sessions. Great job!
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Echoing the other reviews - I bought this assuming it would copy and paste titles and URLs into plain text contexts. As it is now, you can only choose to copy plain text titles or plain text links (with the option key held).

Also, exporting Markdown titles / links was also something I just figured this would have.

I'm giving it 3 stars because it is a good application and done well. I'll update the review to 5 stars as newer versions add the expected features.