Grouping Tabs for Open PDFs

twinger

Request is for the ability to group open PDFs into tabs, similar to the way that Microsoft Edge allows for web pages to be grouped together into tabs (Edge allows you to take a number of open websites and add them to a named / color-coded group tab. This allows for multiple websites to be open, but organized into group tabs. The websites for the active tab are visible along with the group tabs for the other websites. This makes it significantly easier to navigate to individual sites.)

For Bluebeam, the request is to have the ability to group open PDFs into tabs. This would allow users to have multiple projects open at the same time with a number of PDFs open for each project. Currently, if you have 20 or so PDFs open in Bluebeam, the file names are so short that you cannot tell what the file is. If the PDFs could be group by tabs, then what you would see are the file names for one project and just the project tabs for the other PDFs. That would make it much easier and faster to select an open PDF.

Liam Mullen

I would love to see this as well. I had the exact same thought, went here to post it, and found someone else had beat me to it. A common issue in our office is people having so many Bluebeam tabs open that they become very small and/or are pushed into the dropdown list on the right and things are hard to find. The tab grouping you describe is common in modern browsers (Chrome does it as well, for example).

Another thought would be to have two rows of tabs where the top row is the Group and the bottom row is the pdfs within that Group. This would create a heirarchy that allows the user to easily switch between Groups and pdfs.

nmannion

This would be incredibly helpful for myself as well. I often find myself working on multiple projects at once and spend a lot of time just trying to figure out which documents I am actively working with. Being able to group pdfs into their respective projects would greatly help to streamline my work and keep me from having to dot around from pdf to pdf in order to get what I am actually looking for. Sometimes I end up just closing all pdfs that I'm not actively using at the moment to avoid the confusion, and then I have to go through a bunch of emails and folders later on to get all those pdfs back open once I am working on the relevant project.

Organizing and creating clear pathways has been shown to have massive benefits, and grouping tabs is an extremely helpful tool and increases productivity in a big way. This would create an even more user-friendly experience for the already deeply useful and helpful Revu software. I hope to see Revu evolve in this way soon, and appreciate you taking the time to see what matters most to us users!