Organize, find, and manage your work in the browser
If you can master some simple keyboard shortcuts in chrome, you'll become much faster and much more productive. Some of these tips and shortcuts might even save you. Learn how to navigate and use chrome effectively and quickly with these awesome shortcuts and tips.
Master these chrome keyboard shortcuts to become way faster at navigating tabs and windows in the browser.
In chrome, you can quickly jump to a tab by pressing CTRL + i on Windows, CMD + i on Mac (i being the tab index). For example, if you pressed CMD + 3 on Mac, that would quickly navigate to the third tab in your browser. Pressing CMD/CTRL + 9 will automatically go to your last tab, even if you have much more than 9 tabs open. Although, if that is consistently the case, you should try using a Tab Manager.
You can shuffle through or switch between tabs simply by holding CTRL and then tapping tab on windows to shuffle forwards through the tabs or hold CTRL + SHIFT and then tap tab to shuffle backwards. The Mac shortcut is the same OR, you can use CMD + option + right/left arrow to achieve the same effect.
To quickly navigate back or forward in chrome press CTRL + [ to go back and CTRL + ] to go forward on Windows. CMD + [ to go back and CMD + ] to go forward on Mac. This is super useful when you’ve accidentally clicked a link and want to quickly go back without clicking the back button in the browser.
To quickly bounce back and forth or between multiple apps, including chrome, press ALT + tab on Windows, CMD + tab on Mac. You can hold ALT/CMD and tap tab to keep shuffling through your open apps. Pressing ALT/CMD + SHIFT + tab shuffles backwards. If you just want to switch between two apps, for example chrome and your text editor of choice, just tab ALT + tab on Windows or CMD + Tab on Mac and it will automatically switch back to your previously focused app. This shortcut is very handy for quickly navigating multiple apps or heavily using two apps at once where you need to constantly switch back and forth.
Have you ever navigated to the wrong website? Typed something incorrectly? Or just want to change your search quickly? Well, thankfully there is a keyboard shortcut to quickly snap your cursor focus to the browser search bar and highlight the current text so that you can easily update it.
Simply press CTRL + L on Windows or CMD + L on Mac.
Go to www.{sitename}.com quickly by typing the sitename (For example, github, notion, airtable, etc.) and then hitting CTRL + ENTER and google will automatically add the www. before the site name and .com after the sitename.
Right click on the chrome back button, or click and hold the back button.
Managing and organizing tabs in the browser becomes next to impossible after awhile. Below are some useful tips and tricks to better organize your tabs and to try to keep things in a manageable state. Even saving 5 seconds here and there makes a huge difference. If you want to level up your game one step further, you should try a Tab Manager.
With a Tab Manager like Partizion, you can quickly save all of your open tabs and restore them later.
Quickly open a new window in chrome by pressing CTRL + N on Windows, CMD + N on Mac.
To open a new incognito window, press CTRL + SHIFT + N on Windows, CMD + SHIFT + N on Mac.
If you’re done with a tab, you can instantly close it with a quick keyboard shortcut. Instead of trying to click the tiny ‘x’ button on the tab, just press CTRL + W on Windows or CMD + W on Mac to instantly close the tab.
You can quickly close your current chrome window by pressing CTRL + SHIFT + W on Windows or CMD + SHIFT + W on Mac.
To minimize the current active window press CTRL + M in Windows or CMD + M in Mac.
To completely hide the current window simply press CMD + H on Mac.
To reopen your last closed tab or window, press CTRL + SHIFT + T on Windows, CMD + SHIFT + T on Mac. This will quickly reopen the last tab or window that you closed — super useful for when you accidentally close a tab or window.
To quickly save your current tab as a bookmark in chrome, press CTRL + d on Windows or CMD + d on Mac.
To quickly save all the tabs in your current window as a new bookmarks folder in chrome, press CTRL + SHIFT + d on Windows or CMD + SHIFT + d on Mac.
These quick shortcuts will help you get to the page in chrome you need to instantly.
press CTRL + J on Windows or CMD + option + L in Mac.
You can quickly search through your current open tabs with the Partizion search app. Simply open the search with a keyboard shortcut (configurable) and type your search. You can also search your previously visited tabs.
Ever need to go back to or reference a tab that you previously had open? You can peruse your chrome history, or, with the Partizion search app, you can instantly search your previously visited tabs and open the link you need.
press CTRL + B on Windows or CMD + option + B in Mac.
press CTRL + SHIFT + B on Windows or CMD + SHIFT + B in Mac.
press CTRL + H on Windows or CMD + Y in Mac.
Using keyboard shortcuts in chrome is a fantastic way to increase your speed and productivity while working in the browser. If you’d like to level up your game even more, or just become more organized and focused, you should try using a tab manager. Tab managers are designed to help your organize, find and manage your work in the browser.
Not all tab managers are made equal. You have to be judicious when deciding what tab manager to use. There are plenty of great free options out there, but be wary of ‘free’ extensions — they might not be very privacy friendly and they might include annoying ads. Furthermore, they’re liking to be abandoned after a couple months, and worse yet, they might be sold to nefarious owners who then install malware into the extension.
If you’re looking for a simple, privacy and productivity focused tab manager, try Partizion.
Partizion was built for one reason: To help organize your work in the browser. Today, everything is moving to the browser. Keeping track of resources, apps, websites, and tabs has become impossible. Meanwhile, you also have to deal with a myriad of other distractions — if finding a tab, website, or app in an array of 30+ tabs is also added to this, it makes for a very distracting work environment.
Partizion is simple. You split up/partition (where we got the name) what you work on, for example: Work, Personal, School, Side-Project etc. and then create collections of tabs for everything that is a subset of these partitions. For example, you could save all your frequently visited work tools into one collection so they are just a click away. You can use collections to save your work from the day before — hop back in and hit the ground running right where you left off the day after. Collections can be used for anything: todo/task lists, projects, sessions, reading lists, and more.
When you’re ready to upgrade your chrome experience, try Partizion.
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