When comparing Tabs Outliner vs Workona, the Slant community recommends Workona for most people. In the question“What are the best tab managers for Chrome?” Workona is ranked 3rd while Tabs Outliner is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Workona is:
Intuitive UI. Minimal ramp-up.
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Pros
Pro Tabs Outliner is great at organization of tabs
Even though the experience is not streamlined, it's still worth checking out.
Pro Add notes and labels to any groups, windows and labels
Lots of organization functionality and freedom. You can use emojis as group icons too. You can also duplicate anything.
Pro Reliable, trustworthy and safe
Has barely any problems (on Windows and Linux), help from the developer easy to get.
Pro Powerful - interface and learning curve can seem like a lot but they're not and serve you well
Pro Effortless organization
Intuitive UI.
Minimal ramp-up.
Pro Works seamlessly across multiple monitors and browser instances
Pro Incorporates tasks, notes, and collaboration
Plus: auto save, sharing permissions, various modes for organization, tab suspension, (optional!) new tab, layout switching, multi-platform, file attachments, most web apps supported, and its actively developed and updated with new features. With some ingenuity and a few extra extensions, I've even included my local directory resources in my client workspaces with in-place editing.
Pro Efficient use of System Resources
It seems to be well written and in no way bogs my system.
Pro Very responsive
There is nearly no lag between multiple instances.
Cons
Con Complicated
Clumsy and complicated interface.
Con Can't search old trees (files) without opening them individually
Con Unstable and greedy
As tree becomes complex, sometimes all data is missing together with a backup file, if any. Shortcut keys available in paid version only.
Con Need to start a new 'tree' (file) when it becomes too big for performance
Thankfully it's gonna take a long time before you need to start over (many months even for those using a very old laptop and browsing throughout the day) and you can bring content from your old trees into new ones (old trees can be stores locally or in Google Drive btw).
Con Paid
For free accounts, you can only have 5 personal workspaces and 3 shared workspaces.
Con Worst than alternatives
Con Application concept changing all the time
They still seem to be searching heavily for their vision of productivity focussed tab management. Big changes in user interface have occured in the last years. The UI is more complex than needed and it is not clear what they want to achieve.
Con Duplicating and loosing windows and tabs
Sometimes window sessions are duplicated and have to be merged by hand. More than once sessions and tabs have been lost. Mostly because it couldn't cope with Chrome restarting. Once also because the backend was updated and it went wrong. Workona has not at all proven to be reliable.
Con Doesn't always play well with others
Even though most of the bugs and glitches are a result of conflicts with other extensions or browser features (e.g. edge rolling our new tab management features)... it takes a lot of trial an error to figure out what works. Some feedback by way of a useful error message would help.