Pinned tabs and folders

Pinned tabs are the pages you come back to every day. They sit under Pinned at the top of their Space, stay there when you close them, and can be sorted into folders.

Pin a tab

Each Space has its own pinned tabs, so your work pages stay in Work and your home pages stay at home.

1. Open the page you want to keep.Any tab in the Space will do.
2. Press ⌘D.The tab moves up into Pinned. You can also choose Pin Tab from the File menu, right-click the tab in the sidebar, or drag it onto the Pinned heading.
3. Unpin it the same way.Press ⌘D again, choose Unpin Tab, or drag it down onto the Today heading. The tab stays open.

To pin a link without opening it, right-click it on a page and choose Pin Link to Space, then pick a Space. It arrives asleep and loads the first time you open it.

Closing a pinned tab

Closing a pinned tab with ⌘W doesn't remove it. It goes to sleep in its place, frees its memory, and loads again when you click it. To take it away for good, right-click it and choose Unpin and Close.

Folders

Folders keep a long list of pinned tabs short. A closed folder shows how many tabs it holds.

• Make a folder with the + beside Pinned, by right-clicking the sidebar and choosing New Folder, or with ⌥⌘N. Type its name and press Return.
• Put a tab in a folder by right-clicking the tab and choosing Add to Folder (or Move to Folder for a tab that's already pinned). New Folder at the end of that menu makes one with the tab inside.
• Take a tab out with Move to Folder › Out of Folder.
• Open or close a folder by clicking it.
• Folders inside folders: right-click a folder and choose New Folder Inside.

Right-click a folder to rename it. Remove Folder, Keep Tabs takes the folder away and leaves its tabs pinned where it was. Close Folder and Its Tabs removes the folder and everything in it.

On your other Macs

Your pinned tabs and folders stay in step across your Macs through iCloud, as part of each Space. When you share a Space, the people you share it with get its pinned links and folders too, while their open tabs stay their own. See Sync with iCloud and Share a Space.

When you bring bookmarks over from another browser, they arrive as one closed folder of pinned tabs, named after that browser, with its folders kept inside. See Bring your tabs.

Shortcuts

Every shortcut is on the Keyboard shortcuts page.