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Few’s behaviour is a workflow: a chain of triggers and actions. The default one is four steps, and reads as a sentence — unused for 3 hours → move to Bin → in Bin for five days → close. Open it with Rules in the popup, or right-click the Few icon and choose Options. The WithFew workflow editor with the default four-step workflow, and the toolbox open with its steps grouped into triggers, actions and logic.

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Changing a step

Click a step and its settings open beside it. The Move to Bin step selected, with its editor open beside it showing four switches. Every timing in Few is set this way — how long a tab must be unused, how long it stays in Bin, how long before a duplicate is closed.

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Blocks

Unused for — the tab has gone untouched for a length of time.In Bin for — the tab has been sitting in Bin long enough.Time Spent — you have spent a total amount of time on the tab.Open — the tab has just been opened, optionally matching a rule.Duplicate — the same page is open in another tab.Schedule — at a time of day you choose.
Move to Bin — the safe option: group, unload, keep.Close — close the tab, with a floor for how many tabs must stay open.Sleep — unload the tab without moving it.Notify — a notification instead of doing anything.Group, Pin, Focus, Reload, Bookmark — the rest of the everyday tab operations.
Condition — branch on the tab’s address, title, kind of site, age or group, or the time and day — see below.Delay — wait before the next step.
Drag a block from the toolbox onto the canvas to add it, and drag steps to reorder them.

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Conditions

A Condition splits the workflow: tabs that match go down If, everything else down Else. Add as many conditions as you like, and choose whether a tab must match all of them or any one.
  • Kind of site — AI, files, chat, news, shopping, video and so on. Tick several and any of them matches. Few works this out on your device (how); a tab it can’t place matches none.
  • Title contains — a word or phrase in the tab’s title. Separate several with commas; any of them matches.
  • Domain, address — a site, or part of an address. Domains can be a comma-separated list too.
  • Pinned, playing sound, in a group, the tab you’re on, how long it’s been open, number of tabs, time of day, day of the week.

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Describe it

At the top of every Condition, Describe it drafts the conditions from a sentence: video and social sites in the evening, anything on GitHub titled “review”. Press Generate and Few fills in the list below, with a line saying what it understood. Check it, change anything, and save as usual. A Condition's editor: the Describe it box with a sentence typed in and a Generate button, then two conditions — kind of site, with Video and Social ticked, and a time of day between 17:00 and 22:00.
  • Site names and words in quotes are read from your sentence on your device. Kinds of site, times, days and tab ages are drafted by our API.
  • Only the sentence is sent, when you press the button. Your tabs are never sent. Privacy has the details.
  • If your sentence describes tabs to keep, Few says so: put the steps you want for everything else under Else.
  • It needs you to be signed in, with a trial or plan. Every condition can be set by hand without it.
Put Move to Bin in the If branch rather than Close. Bin is the safety net: if a condition catches a tab you didn’t mean, it is still there to open.

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Testing before you trust it

The ▷ button beside the workflow’s name reports what the workflow would do to the tabs you have open right now. Nothing is moved, closed or grouped — it is a preview. The test dialog: three of eleven tabs would be moved to Bin at the next check, each listed by title.

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Starting over

The templates button offers three ways to start. Templates has the recommended cleanup, a gentler one, a more aggressive one and a duplicate remover; Scratch is a blank canvas; Describe is below. For more — memory savers, end-of-day tidies, rules by kind of site — see the workflow library: download one and bring it in with Import.

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Describe how you work

In the templates dialog, choose Describe and say how you’d like your tabs handled — put social media to sleep after 20 minutes, keep docs for a week, and close duplicates — then press Generate. Few builds a workflow from the same steps as the toolbox and shows it before anything changes: a picture of the steps, and a line for each kind of site. Use this puts it in the editor, where you can change any of it; Edit the sentence lets you try again. The templates dialog on its Describe tab: a sentence about putting social media to sleep, keeping docs for a week and closing duplicates, with a Generate button. It answers per kind of site, from a fixed set of choices: leave alone, sleep, move to Bin, Bin then close, bookmark then Bin, or close, each after 20 minutes, an hour, a few hours, a day or a week. Anything finer, change in the editor. As with Describe it, only the sentence is sent, and only when you press the button. Import checks a file before it changes anything. If a file isn’t a workflow Few can run, it says what’s wrong and leaves your workflow as it was.
Picking a template replaces the workflow you have now. Export first if you want to keep it — Export writes the workflow to a JSON file, and Import reads one back.

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Saving

Save writes the workflow and starts every tab again from the first step, so a tab that was halfway through the old rules is measured afresh against the new ones.