AI chats are a new kind of tab. You don't want to close them, because the context lives in the conversation and re-explaining it takes longer than the answer did. But you can't find them either, because the titles are auto-generated, the favicons are all the same, and you opened a new one every time the old one was out of sight.
This guide is the routine we use to keep ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and the rest findable in Chrome. It works for one assistant or six, and most of it is free.
Why AI tabs pile up
- Each chat is a page. Unlike a docs app with one tab and many files, each conversation is a separate URL, so a busy week is twenty tabs for one tool.
- The titles sound alike. "Draft follow-up email", "Follow-up email draft", "Email draft revision". Good luck.
- New is easier than find. Opening a fresh chat takes one click. Finding yesterday's means scrolling a sidebar inside the app, so most people don't.
- Different models for different jobs. Claude for writing, ChatGPT for a quick lookup, Gemini because it's in the Google Workspace menu. Three apps, three sets of tabs.
Step 1: Stack them by app
Switch's sidebar groups open tabs by web app, so twelve ChatGPT tabs collapse into one row with a count on it. Hover the row and every chat in the stack is listed by title; click the one you want. The same happens for Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and anything else. Your tab strip stops being a wall of identical icons and becomes a short list of apps.
Step 2: One Space per project, not per tool
The mistake most people make is to group by assistant: all the ChatGPT chats here, all the Claude chats there. Group by project instead. A Space in Switch holds every tab for one piece of work: the brief in Notion, the Jira board, the Figma file, and the two AI chats you're using to write the copy. Switch to another client's Space and all of it is tucked away. Switch back and every tab reopens where it was, chats included.
Free accounts get two Spaces, which is enough to separate "this week's project" from "everything else". Pro removes the cap, so one Space per client is realistic.
Step 3: Pin the assistants you use daily
Add ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini as a Favourite and it sits in the dock on every page. One click opens it; if it's already open somewhere, Switch takes you to that tab rather than opening another. That single behaviour removes most duplicate chats. Open all your Favourites at once in the morning and the assistants are ready alongside your inbox and calendar.
Step 4: Search instead of scrolling
Switch's search box matches against tab titles, so whatever the chat is called, typing a couple of words from it brings it up from the keyboard. With Pro, Power Search also covers your Favourites and browsing history, which is how you get back a chat you closed last week without opening the app and scrolling its sidebar.
Step 5: Rename chats as you go
This one is inside the AI apps, not Switch, but it makes everything above work better. Every major assistant lets you rename a conversation. A five-second rename to "Acme pricing page copy v2" means the stack, the Space and the search all show something you will recognise in a week. Generated titles are a placeholder, and they read like one.
Step 6: Let old chats close themselves
Chats you haven't touched in an hour are rarely chats you will come back to today. Inactive Tabs closes them in one click. With Pro, Auto-tidy does it on its own after a time you set, or moves the tabs into a Space instead of closing them, so a research session is parked rather than lost. Either way the strip stays usable without you policing it.
A note on sharing
If a project Space is worth sharing with a colleague, Shared Spaces sends the whole set of tabs as one link, and they don't need Switch to open it. One caveat with AI chats: the chat URL is private to your account, so share the sources and the docs, and use the assistant's own share feature for the conversation itself if you want them to read it.
The routine in one line
Stack by app, group by project, pin the daily ones, search rather than scroll, rename as you go, let the old ones close. Install Switch for free and the first three happen the moment you open the sidebar.