Set it up
- Open the website you use almost every day in Safari.
- Right-click the tab, or click it with two fingers on a trackpad.
- Choose
Pin Tab. - Drag your pinned tabs on the left into a useful order.
Good candidates are webmail, calendars, notes, project boards, banking or internal dashboards. Bad candidates are articles, search results and pages you only need today.
Why it helps
Pinned tabs stay small, fixed on the left and easy to reopen. You stop opening the same basic sites every morning, and they do not disappear between research tabs.
The point is not better tab management. The point is removing your daily starting points from the normal tab pile.
Keep the row strict
Use a limit of three to seven pinned tabs. Once you pin ten or more, you have just created a new version of the same mess.
Once a week, ask: did I actually use this site in the last few days? If not, right-click the tab and choose Unpin Tab.
Extra tip
Pin permanent work places, not tasks. A project board can be pinned. The single ticket you are reading today belongs in a normal tab.