Amplifier + AppleScript

400 Tabs to 100

How Amplifier manages your browser — without anyone telling it how

A real story about AI reducing cognitive load
The Problem

You have too many tabs open.

Right now. You know it. Everyone knows it. And nobody does anything about it.

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Every tab is a decision you deferred

"Maybe I'll need this later." So you leave it open. Times four hundred.

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Knowledge workers average 25+ tabs

Power users? Easily 100 to 400+. Each one a tiny thread of attention left dangling.

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Closing tabs feels like losing information

So you don't close them. The pile grows. The overwhelm compounds.

Attention Debt

Each open tab is a micro-anxiety you carry all day

Psychologists call it attention residue. Your brain keeps a background thread running for every unfinished task. 400 tabs = 400 background threads in your mind.

This is not a technology problem. It's a human problem.
The Discovery

What if your AI could see your browser?

macOS has a hidden superpower called AppleScript — a way for programs to talk to other programs. Apps choose what to expose: window titles, tab URLs, document contents.

Microsoft Edge exposes everything about your tabs. And Amplifier has access to the terminal.

You
Amplifier
bash
AppleScript
Microsoft Edge

Amplifier can read every tab title, URL, and window — in seconds.

Key Insight

Nobody told Amplifier how to do this.

Sam just said: "organize my tabs."

Amplifier figured out on its own that it could use bash to run AppleScript to query Edge. No plugin. No integration. No configuration. It just… worked it out.

Before
400+
open tabs
Scattered across multiple windows
Duplicates everywhere
Tabs from weeks ago
No organization at all

You know the feeling. You can't even find the tab you need.

What Amplifier Did

Read. Group. Clean.

1

Read every tab

Used AppleScript to extract the title and URL of all 400+ tabs across every Edge window.

2

Grouped by topic

Organized tabs into categories: work projects, research, reference docs, social media, news, shopping…

3

Cleaned the noise

Identified duplicates, stale pages, and tabs that were no longer relevant. Closed them.

After
400+
before
<100
organized, relevant tabs

Just the tabs Sam actually needed. Grouped. Organized. Manageable.

Speed

A human would spend hours doing this.

Minutes.

Amplifier processed all 400+ tabs, categorized them, identified noise, and cleaned up — in a single conversation.

The Vision

Attention management,
not attention consumption.

Most AI products demand your attention. Notifications. Feeds. Alerts. Suggestions. Every app fighting for a piece of your focus.

Typical AI

  • Sends you notifications
  • Shows you "suggested" content
  • Interrupts your workflow
  • Adds to your cognitive load

Amplifier

  • Reduces your open tabs
  • Organizes your workspace
  • Removes mental clutter
  • Gives your attention back
Going Further

After browser tabs, the vision expanded:

What about terminal tabs?

Imagine one Amplifier session managing all your terminal sessions. Color-coding them by status:

Needs attention
Running task
Healthy
Idle

Reality check: Terminal.app exposes limited AppleScript (just tab coloring). Warp terminal doesn't expose AppleScript at all. The capability depends on what apps choose to share.

But the vision is clear: Amplifier as your attention orchestrator across every app.

The Reaction
"You built an AI-powered Shortcuts app which Apple has not been able to build yet."
— Audience member
"We didn't build it — Amplifier took advantage of it dynamically, on its own."
— Brian, Amplifier creator
The Differentiator

Dynamic discovery, not hardcoded integrations.

Apple Shortcuts

You manually build every workflow. Drag blocks. Configure actions. For every app. Every time.

Manual

Amplifier

You describe what you want. Amplifier discovers the tools available and figures out how to accomplish it.

Dynamic

No plugins to install. No integrations to configure. If an app exposes capabilities via AppleScript, Amplifier can use them.

Beyond Tabs

This pattern extends everywhere.

AppleScript + Amplifier = dynamic automation of any macOS app that exposes capabilities.

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File organization

Sort your Downloads folder, organize project files, archive old documents.

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App management

Query Mail, Calendar, Notes — any app that exposes an AppleScript dictionary.

Workflow automation

Chain actions across apps. Move data between tools. Automate repetitive sequences.

What This Means

Your AI should reduce your cognitive load.

Not add to it.

400 tabs down to 100 is just the beginning. The future is AI that manages your digital environment — so you can focus on the work that actually matters.

amplifier — attention management for the real world