# Move Tab to New Window

**URL:** <https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/move-tab-to-new-window/83792>\
**Category:** Tips\
**Created:** [June 7, 2025, 5:37am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/move-tab-to-new-window/83792 "2025-06-07T05:37:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![troejgaard](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/58956e/32.png) [@troejgaard](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/troejgaard)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 11:18am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/move-tab-to-new-window/83792/8 "2025-06-07T11:18:02Z")

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> [@troejgaard](#):
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> Tabs in DEVONthink are not the same as standard macOS tabs. Those are each a full _window_, where in DT a tab is only a record.

This should clearly illustrate the difference:

Back when macOS window tabs were originally introduced, you could suddenly open multiple _main windows_ of DT2 as tabs in the same window.

Some found it very useful, but it was never officially supported as it wasn’t actually a result of anything the developers did. It was just a happy accident; a side effect of a new system-wide thing.

It looked like this:

 ![Screenshot 2019-05-09 at 14.53.23.jpg](https://devontech-discourse.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/2X/c/cee1f618cc3f612c75f75934bf9293b3c6f6dca7.jpeg)

(from [Open new windows in tabs in DT3? - #17 by peeler](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/open-new-windows-in-tabs-in-dt3/46715/17))

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Returning to the present – your inquiry reminds me that @meowky shared this cool script:

> [@Script: open everything in two windows](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/script-open-everything-in-two-windows/80648):
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> Use case My workflow usually involves two document windows side-by-side. The window on the right is for my notes. The left is for reading and reference materials, i.e. everything else. Both windows may contain many tabs. I prefer this setup because I don’t need to switch between, or rearrange windows. My setup relies on the two following functions: When I open documents, they appear as tabs in the correct window: notes on the right, everything else on the left. When I, for some reason, have m…

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