Lloyd Atkinson
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In my opinion, this is a very important feature for Panorama. I was quite excited about Panorama, but immediately on using it I found that I had to change my workflow to manage and maintain the tab groups. I didn't take the time to do this, so it went unused.
My wife is the exact target audience for the feature, she has like 50 tabs open over a number of days. I showed her Panorama, she got excited, tried it once, and immediately found that it didn't work for her because just like a to-do list app, or any number of getting-things-done productivity improvements, they demand an investment of time to get anything out of them. You must change your habits, your workflow, and human nature is simply not amenable to that.
The tab grouping process has to be fully or semi-automatic, or it won't get used by anyone except a tiny niche willing to invest effort. Tab Focus is a good step in that direction. I'd really like to see this iterated.
One thing that would be good for Tab Focus, but Panorama in general, is auto-arrange. Maybe it already exists and I haven't found it. But especially with Tab Focus creating groups autonomously, auto-arrangement becomes important so that the groups don't overlap and bunch in the top left corner.