I Use This Browser Extension for Literally Everything

Let me introduce you to the browser extension that somehow ended up helping me organize my work, my business, my personal life, and even our homeschool resources.

It’s called Toby, and it is genuinely one of my favorite organization tools.

If your bookmark bar is overflowing, you constantly have 37 tabs open, or you regularly think, “I know I saved that somewhere,” this HoneyComb Hack is for you.

What Is Toby?

Toby is a visual workspace for organizing the websites, documents, programs, and online resources you use regularly.

Think of it like bookmarks, but considerably more organized and much nicer to look at.

Instead of saving everything to one giant bookmark list and hoping you remember where it went, Toby lets you organize your links into spaces and collections. You can group everything by project, client, job, topic, or whatever makes sense to your brain.

Then, when you open a new tab, your organized Toby workspace is right there waiting for you.

Toby also lets you save an entire browser session and reopen it later, which is incredibly helpful if you’re someone who keeps tabs open because you’re afraid you’ll never find them again. Toby

And yes, I know who you are because I am also that person.

I Use Toby for Literally Everything

I don’t just use Toby for one part of my life.

I have different spaces for:

• My work at The Lodge

• HoneyComb Workflow Studio

• Personal websites and accounts

• Homeschool resources

Each space gives that part of my life its own home.

Inside those spaces, I can create smaller collections for the websites, documents, dashboards, forms, programs, and resources I use regularly.

For HoneyComb, it includes things like my website, Canva, ClickUp, Google Drive, business forms, marketing resources, and client tools.

For homeschool, it holds curriculum websites, Google Classroom, educational resources, printables, and the pages we need throughout the week.

Instead of everything being mixed together in one enormous list of bookmarks, each part of my life has its own organized workspace.

And that makes my brain very happy.

Why Not Just Use Regular Bookmarks?

You absolutely can use regular browser bookmarks.

But if you’ve ever opened your bookmarks and found a long list of mystery page titles, duplicate links, old websites, and folders inside folders inside more folders, you already know why that system doesn’t always work.

Traditional bookmarks tend to become a storage closet.

We keep throwing things in there because we might need them later, but eventually it becomes difficult to find anything.

Toby feels more like a visual workspace.

You can see your collections, group related resources together, and organize everything based on how you actually use it. It becomes much easier to move between projects without digging through folders or reopening the same websites individually every day.

My Favorite Part: You Can Close the Tabs

Some of us keep browser tabs open as a form of memory.

That tab means:

“I need to finish this.”

“That looked useful.”

“I’m going to read that later.”

“I cannot close this because I may never find it again.”

Before long, you have so many tabs open that you can’t even read their names. You’re just clicking through tiny icons and hoping for the best.

Toby gives you somewhere to put them.

You can save the tabs you need into a collection, close them, and reopen them when you’re ready to work on that project again. Toby’s session-saving feature can also save and restore a group of open tabs together. Toby Tab Management Tool

You’re not losing the work.

You’re just clearing the clutter until you’re ready for it.

A Few Ways You Could Organize Your Toby

Your setup does not need to look like mine. That is part of what makes Toby useful.

A small-business owner could create spaces or collections for:

• Daily business tools

• Client work

• Marketing and social media

• Financial accounts

• Forms and templates

• Learning and research

• Frequently used documents

• Current projects

• Websites to revisit later

  
  

You could also use it for completely personal things:

• Recipes

• Travel planning

• Financial tracking

• School resources

• Shopping

• Household accounts

• Medical portals

• Hobbies

• Gift ideas

• Articles you actually plan to read someday

  
  

Basically, if you regularly open it, repeatedly search for it, or currently have it buried in your bookmarks, Toby can give it a better home.

Start Small or You’ll Turn It Into a Whole Project

Here is my techy-best-friend warning:

Do not install Toby and immediately decide you need to reorganize your entire digital life.

Start with one space.

Create a collection for the websites you use every day and add those first.

Then create another collection for a current project or one part of your life that feels especially scattered.

You can build the rest naturally as you use it.

Toby currently offers a free Starter plan with its basic organization features and space for up to 60 saved tabs. Paid plans are available for people who need unlimited saved tabs and additional features. Toby Pricing

The free plan gives you plenty of room to try it and figure out whether it works for your brain before committing to anything else.

The Bigger HoneyComb Lesson

Getting organized does not always mean building some huge, complicated system.

Sometimes it means giving the things you already use a clear home.

When you can quickly find the right website, document, form, or resource, you eliminate a surprising amount of frustration from your day.

You stop searching through old emails.

You stop reopening the same five websites manually.

You stop keeping 40 tabs open because you’re afraid of losing something.

And you stop wasting mental energy trying to remember where everything lives.

That is why I love practical tools like Toby. It solves a simple everyday problem without requiring you to completely change how you work.

So, if your browser currently looks like digital chaos, give Toby a try.

Your tabs, your computer, and possibly your sanity will thank you.