> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://withfew.app/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Quickstart

> Install WithFew, and what happens in the first day.

## 1. Install the extension

<Card title="WithFew on the Chrome Web Store" icon="chrome" href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/withfew/dlopkjchmcnfkflgibifbgnnclaikapd" horizontal>
  Chrome, and Chromium browsers like Edge, Brave and Arc.
</Card>

Few starts working the moment it installs. There is nothing to configure, and
you do not have to open the editor.

## 2. Start your free week

A tab opens asking for your email address. You get a sign-in link, and your
seven-day trial starts when you use it — no card.

Few keeps working for a week without an account, so you can try it first. After
that it asks you to sign in. See [Your account](/docs/guides/account).

## 3. Browse normally

Open tabs, research, compare, move on. Few watches which tabs you actually come
back to.

<Steps>
  <Step title="After 3 hours">
    A tab you haven't used joins **Bin** — a collapsed grey group at the end of
    your tab strip — and is unloaded, so it stops using memory. One notification
    tells you how many moved, with **Undo**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Any time">
    Open a tab in Bin and it leaves Bin and comes back as a normal tab. Nothing
    to restore, nothing to remember.
  </Step>

  <Step title="After five days in Bin">
    Tabs you never came back to are closed.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## 4. Check on it

The number on the Few icon in your toolbar is how many tabs are in Bin; with
nothing in Bin there is no number at all. Click the icon and the popup shows
what is in Bin, what you have protected, and what Few has done this week.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/withfew/X3HZyhwJJtcN0YEU/images/popup.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=X3HZyhwJJtcN0YEU&q=85&s=2260b19990e0dc24e4a39c16bda5785a" alt="The WithFew popup: Few, a pixel-art fox, running beside the status because it has just moved tabs to Bin, then four tabs in Bin with when each was moved and when it closes." width="360" height="600" data-path="images/popup.png" />

### Meet Few

The little fox in the popup is Few, and it acts out what it's doing:

| Few is…               | Because…                                           |
| --------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| At a laptop           | there are tabs in Bin to look after                |
| Wondering, with a "?" | nothing has needed moving yet                      |
| Running               | it has just moved tabs to Bin                      |
| Walking               | it has just tidied tabs out of Bin                 |
| Waving                | a tab came back, or you undid something            |
| Celebrating           | it has moved 10, 50, 100… tabs so far              |
| Sad                   | it has paused: a trial ended, or you're signed out |
| Asleep                | you switched it off                                |

The toolbar icon plays the same for a second when something happens. To turn
Few off, open **Settings** in the editor and switch off **Show Few**. If your
computer is set to reduce motion, Few stands still.

From there, **Rules** opens the editor, where you can change the timings or
start from a different template.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/withfew/X3HZyhwJJtcN0YEU/images/templates.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=X3HZyhwJJtcN0YEU&q=85&s=9239388f4c45309c41c748ae32b8ebb0" alt="The workflow templates dialog: default, gentle and aggressive cleanup and duplicate killer, each with a picture of its steps, a link to the workflow library, and start from scratch." width="584" height="800" data-path="images/templates.png" />

<Card title="Next: the Bin" icon="trash-2" href="/docs/guides/bin">
  How tabs move in, come back, and eventually go.
</Card>
