You can find almost anything on the Internet.
The problem with this reared its head at the end of the day; I often found myself staring at more than two-dozen Firefox tabs – each of them valuable, but not valuable enough to go through the hassle of creating a new folder, bookmarking them, etc.
One day an email showed up. It was from a tiny software company, who wanted to talk about market research.
And they had this product called TabCorral (actually, it was eCorral back then).
I wanted it. Badly.
I was happy they became a client (I write & consult for a living, which amuses me too).
Their product – renamed TabCorral – allowed me to create groups of browser tabs (web pages, mostly), and to quickly add new tabs to those groups as needed.
And I could do it on the fly.
I created a corral containing all the useful writer’s resource pages I found.
Every time I came across a new one, I’d add it to the heap – in literally a couple seconds.
I could open the whole shebang if I wanted – all those tabs at once. Or I could search the corral for the one page I needed.
I also write several blogs, and the ability to quickly create a corral and add a half-dozen tabs to it – research for an article – was a huge time saver.
When the article was posted, I simply deleted the whole corral.
I was happy. It was an alpha release and there were some bugs, but I loved the utility. The number and size of my corrals grew.
Then they started work on TabCorral Pro – the cloud-enabled version – and suddenly my corrals synchronized my desktop and two laptops.
You know that old ad headline – “I liked the product so much I bought the company?”
I’m a writer, so I’m not buying any companies.
But I did like the product enough to help them write their blog.
Here, you should expect to find tips, ideas, brainstorms, the occasional bit of news and other TabCorral information.





