Tabs and groups
A Savoia window is a tab bar along the top, in one row with the window buttons,
the address field under it, and the page below. Tabs gather into groups, two tabs can stand side by side, and ⌃Tab
takes you back to the one you were just in.
While a tab loads, an arc turns where its icon was: grey and backwards while the site has not answered yet, in the profile’s colour and forwards once the page is coming. A tab selected past the edge of the bar is scrolled to the middle.
Groups
A group is a coloured label with a name in front of its tabs, which sit on a faint wash of the same colour; the group’s selected tab is tinted with it too. A new group asks for its name straight away; left empty, it is called “Group N”. A long name is cut short on the label; hover over it to see it whole.
- Click the label to fold the group up to it, and again to open it. A folded label is as tall as a tab, with the number of its tabs in its top right corner. If the tab in front is in the group, the tab next to it is shown first, or a new tab if there is no other.
- The label’s menu: New Tab in Group, Rename Group…, Collapse
Group / Expand Group, Color, Ungroup, Move Group to Profile
(more), Delete Group.
Color is one of seven; a group between two groups has none, its colour is
theirs mixed.
⌘⇧Tbrings a deleted group back whole — its name, its colour, the order of its tabs and the one that was in front. - A tab’s menu: New Tab to the Right, Reload, Pin Tab, Add Tab to New Group, Move Tab to Group, Remove from Group, Move to Profile, Close Tab, Close Other Tabs.
- Drag a tab along the tab bar, onto another group’s label, or onto the empty end of the bar to take it out of its group. While a tab is over a group, that group’s wash brightens and the insertion mark takes its colour, so you can see where it will land.
- A group’s label can be dragged too, and the group goes with all its tabs. Onto another group’s label, it stands before that group. Onto a tab of another group, before that group when it came from the right and after it when it came from the left. Onto a tab outside any group, it cuts the row where it was let go. Onto the empty end of the bar, it goes to the end. A click on the label still folds the group.
- New Tab (
⌘T, or the + in the bar) opens at the very end, outside every group. - The empty part of the tab bar moves the window, and a double-click on it zooms it.
Several tabs at once. ⌘-click adds a tab to the picked ones or takes it out,
⇧-click picks every tab from the last one clicked to this one. The menu of any
picked tab is about all of them: Add N Tabs to New Group, Move N Tabs to
Group, Close N Tabs — which is how a group is made from several tabs in one
go. Not ⌃: on a Mac a ⌃-click is the secondary click and opens the menu.
Two tabs side by side. Pick two tabs and choose Show Side by Side from the menu: both pages stand under the tab bar, and the two tabs get a split mark. The half that has the keyboard is underlined at the top; a click on the other one makes it current. Stop Showing Side by Side on either one takes them apart.
Pinned tabs. Pin Tab in a tab’s menu turns it into an icon at the left
edge of the bar, before every group; each profile has its own. It has no close
button, stays in sight when a group is folded, and Close Other Tabs, Delete
Group and groups by meaning leave it alone. Unpin Tab takes it back. A pin
stays after a relaunch. ⌘W or the middle button on a pinned tab asks first —
Close Pinned Tab. ⌘⇧T brings it back pinned, to its place among the pins.
The pinned tabs stand on a shared wash, like a group with no name, and the last one has a pin in its top right corner. A click on it folds them into one pin as tall as a tab, and a click on that pin opens them again; Collapse Pinned Tabs and Expand Pinned Tabs in a pinned tab’s menu do the same. While they are folded, ⌘1…⌘9 and ⌘⇧[ / ⌘⇧] pass them by, as they pass a folded group’s tabs. Pinning another tab opens them.
A folded group stays folded after a relaunch.
Groups by meaning
With Configuration ▸ Tabs ▸ Group Tabs by Meaning on, Savoia sorts tabs by what the page is about — on this Mac, with no network and without the language model features:
- A new tab, once its page has loaded, goes into the group it is about; the tab in front stays in front. When it is not sure, the tab stays where it is.
- Before anything moves, Savoia asks Regroup Tabs?, a row per tab: the site’s icon and title, where it is now (or No Group), an arrow, and the group it goes to; a new group has a plus before its name. Not Now leaves them where they are until they go to another site. With Don’t ask again ticked, Regroup lets later moves happen without asking, and Not Now asks once more: Turn Off Grouping, or Adjust Threshold…, which opens these settings. Ask Before Regrouping in the same settings brings the question back.
- Tabs move one at a time, so you can see where each goes; while they travel the tab bar takes no clicks.
- Regrouping Threshold: towards Often, a tab needs a smaller lead to move and two alike tabs make a group; towards Rarely, twice the lead and six tabs.
- A tab about two groups at once goes into a group between them, coloured between their colours: purple between blue and red. A tab almost about a group, but not surely, goes into a pale group right after it. Until such a group has a name of its own it is called after its neighbours (“Dinner · Sport”, ”≈ Dinner”). Tabs can be dragged in and out; the colour is the group’s. Its menu has Merge into … and Make Separate Group; if a neighbouring group goes away, it stays next to the other.
- Three alike tabs with no group become a new group. At first it is named after the words their titles share; a moment later a name by meaning replaces it (“Cooking”, “Football”). The assistant’s model or agent gives it when language models are on, the Local Model on this Mac otherwise. A name you typed in the meantime stays.
- A tab you moved by hand stays where you put it until it goes to another site. A group you ungrouped is not made again.
Sort By: Embeddings — the model that searches bookmarks, fast and light on memory — or Local Model, which reads the titles and picks the group itself. That works best with Gemma 4 E2B, at 3.6 GB and a few seconds a tab.
Local Model — Gemma 3 1B (770 MB), Qwen 2.5 1.5B (870 MB) or Gemma 4 E2B (3.6 GB). Downloaded the first time it is needed, and held in memory only while it answers.
Old tabs
Configuration ▸ Tabs ▸ Old Tabs ▸ Offer to Close — how often Savoia looks for tabs you have left behind: Never (the default), Daily, Every 3 Days, Weekly, Every 2 Weeks or Monthly. The period is also the measure: once a week it looks for tabs not opened for a week.
A tab left behind is one that has not been in front for the whole period, and whose topic you have not come across in that time — neither in the other tabs you opened nor in the history. The topics are compared by the same model that sorts tabs into groups, on this Mac, with no network. If any tab of a group was opened, the rest of the group is left alone too: a group is a topic. Pinned tabs are never offered.
The tabs found are shown as a list with checkboxes: untick what you want to keep and click Close N Tabs, or Keep All. Savoia closes nothing by itself. If you read next to nothing in the period — you were on holiday, say — nothing is offered: there is nothing to judge by. It looks at the profile that is open, and never at a private one.
Look Now runs the same search at once, without waiting for the period.
Keys
⌃Tab | fly between tabs by memory: pictures of every tab of every group, in the order you looked at them; let ⌃ go and you are there. Control-Tab Switches in the Windows settings can choose Tab Bar Order instead of Recently Used: then ⌃Tab and ⌃⇧Tab are a step forward and back along the bar, and folded groups are skipped |
⌃⇧Tab | the same, over the group you are in |
⌘⇧] ⌘⇧[ | next / previous tab |
⌘1 … ⌘8 | that tab, ⌘9 the last one |
⌘T ⌘W ⌘⇧T | new tab, close tab, reopen a closed one |
⌘⇧] ⌘⇧[ and ⌘1…⌘9 skip folded groups; ⌃Tab by memory does not. Every key is on
the Keyboard shortcuts page.