Who it is for

When every client is a browser window

Three clients, one browser, and a morning that starts by working out which of the nineteen open tabs belong to the person you are about to bill.

The cost is the reconstruction, not the tabs

Switching from one client to another is rarely a matter of finding the right pages. It is remembering what you had decided — the reply you had half-written, the number you were waiting on, the thing you promised by three o'clock. The tabs are a prompt for that, and a poor one.

Billing by the hour makes this awkward in a way it is not for other people: the time at the start of every context switch is either written off or written down, and neither is comfortable.

What a Workspace holds

One client's tabs, saved together, with one line about what happens next. Not a task list — one line, the one you would otherwise have to reconstruct. When you switch away, that client's tabs close and the next client's open. When you come back, so does the line — with the page you were last on named under it, when SwitchCue knows it.

Things that matter when the work is someone else's

• Your work stays on this computer. No account, no sign-in, no server of ours. Client names, page titles and your notes stay where you wrote them — the privacy policy sets out exactly what is stored and where.
• Your tabs don't close until you agree. The first time a switch would close tabs, it asks, and you can tell it to keep them open instead — for good.
• Export is one button. Your Workspaces come out as a file you keep. It is also the only copy that survives uninstalling.
• One window, on purpose. SwitchCue manages a single Chrome window rather than trying to own your whole browser.

Consultants, and anyone else billing several people at once

The job is the same shape whether the word is client, engagement, matter or account: several bodies of work, one browser, and a switch that costs more than it looks. Nothing in SwitchCue is specific to freelancing — it is just where the cost is felt most directly.

Watch a switch, twenty-five seconds. Or, without the clients in it: how to organize Chrome tabs by project, with separate windows and tab groups weighed against each other.