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Few runs one workflow: a chain of steps that decides when a tab moves to Bin, sleeps, or closes. These are ready-made ones for different ways of working.

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Using one

1

Download it

Each workflow below is a small file.
2

Import it

In the editor, choose Import and drop the file in. Few checks it first, and changes nothing if it can’t use it.
3

Save

The steps replace your current workflow. Your settings — protected sites, grouping — stay as they are.
Every step can be changed afterwards; see Workflows. To keep what you have, Export it first.

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Everyday cleanup

How long a tab waits, and whether Few ever closes it.
default-cleanup

Default cleanup

What Few does out of the box.

Unused for 3 hours → Move to Bin → In Bin for 5 days → Close.

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gentle-cleanup

Gentle cleanup

For people who like to keep things around.

Unused for a day → Move to Bin → In Bin for 2 weeks → Close.

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aggressive-cleanup

Aggressive cleanup

For people who open a lot of tabs.

Unused for an hour → Move to Bin → In Bin for 2 days → Close.

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never-close

Never close anything

Tidy, but nothing is ever closed for you. Bin keeps everything until you close it yourself.

Unused for 3 hours → Move to Bin. That’s all.

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just-remind-me

Just remind me

Few moves nothing. You get a notification for each tab you haven’t opened in three days.

Unused for 3 days → Notify.

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Memory

Free memory without moving anything.
memory-saver

Memory saver

Tabs stay exactly where they are; ones you aren’t using stop taking memory, and reload when you open them.

Unused for 30 minutes → Sleep.

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Focus

Clear the desk on a schedule, or keep distractions light.
end-of-day

End-of-day tidy

Nothing moves during the day. At 6pm on weekdays, everything you aren’t looking at goes to Bin (if Chrome is open then).

Weekdays at 18:00 → Move to Bin → In Bin for 5 days → Close.

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friday-reset

Friday reset

Start every week clean, without losing anything: Friday evening, open tabs are bookmarked and moved to Bin.

Fridays at 17:00 → Bookmark → Move to Bin → In Bin for 7 days → Close.

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social-timeout

Social timeout

Social and video sites are unloaded after 20 minutes away; everything else follows the default cleanup.

Unused for 20 minutes → on social or video sites, Sleep → then, unused for 3 hours → Move to Bin → In Bin for 5 days → Close.

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Research & reading

For tabs you mean to come back to.
long-haul-research

Long-haul research

Docs, papers and wiki pages get a week before Bin; everything else, 3 hours.

Unused for 3 hours → docs, papers and wikis wait until unused for 7 days, the rest go now → Move to Bin → In Bin for 5 days → Close.

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save-before-closing

Save before closing

Nothing is ever really lost: a tab is bookmarked to your WithFew folder just before Few closes it.

Unused for 3 hours → Move to Bin → In Bin for 5 days → Bookmark → Close.

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Duplicates & noise

The tabs nobody needs twice.
duplicate-killer

Duplicate killer

Closes a tab the moment the same page is already open, and does nothing else.

Duplicate → Notify → Close.

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search-sweeper

Search sweeper

Search results go to Bin after 30 minutes; everything else follows the default cleanup.

Unused for 30 minutes → search results go now, the rest wait until unused for 3 hours → Move to Bin → In Bin for 5 days → Close.

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By kind of site

Rules on what kind of site a tab is — which Few works out on your device.
shopping-pages

Shopping pages

Product pages are bookmarked, so you can find them again, then moved to Bin after an hour; everything else follows the default cleanup.

Unused for an hour → on shopping sites, Bookmark; the rest wait until unused for 3 hours → Move to Bin → In Bin for 5 days → Close.

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keep-reference

Keep reference material

Docs, code and research get a day before Bin and two weeks in it; everything else follows the default cleanup.

Unused for 3 hours → docs, code and research wait until unused for a day → Move to Bin → In Bin for 5 days (two weeks for reference) → Close.

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