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.