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Show HN: Organize your open Chrome Tabs like apps on a desktop

21 pointsby bachmitreabout 3 years ago

5 comments

netsharcabout 3 years ago
Vivaldi, the Chrome-engined browser made by people who left Opera after it was bought by a dodgy Chinese company, has (like Opera), tabs that are configurable to appear on any side of the window:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vivaldi.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;themes&#x2F;vivaldicom-theme&#x2F;img&#x2F;features&#x2F;tabs&#x2F;vertical-tabs.webp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vivaldi.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;themes&#x2F;vivaldicom-theme&#x2F;img&#x2F;f...</a><p>from: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vivaldi.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;tab-management&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vivaldi.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;tab-management&#x2F;</a><p>as well as a open (and closed) tabs manager across all windows: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.vivaldi.com&#x2F;desktop&#x2F;tabs&#x2F;window-panel&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.vivaldi.com&#x2F;desktop&#x2F;tabs&#x2F;window-panel&#x2F;</a><p>I guess I&#x27;ve been using tabs on the side for over 10 years now. IntelliJ also has this feature for open files.
rantallionabout 3 years ago
Neat idea but I&#x27;m not sure it scales to handle the sometimes hundreds of tabs some of us hoarders have open at once.
kwatsonafterabout 3 years ago
This is so sick. I&#x27;m going to use this. I&#x27;m getting to that point to where, &quot;open tabs&quot; and, &quot;temporary bookmark(s)&quot; are largely that same thing. I&#x27;ve got 23 tabs open right now and each is something I want to, &quot;remember;&quot; but it adds to cognitive load to keep track of, &quot;things not wanting to get lost.&quot;<p>There&#x27;s something in the air that sort of sings; the first person to figure out a better, &quot;experience&quot; for the current World Wide Web++ which effectively would amount to better way of doing Bookmarks, Open Tabs, History, and (in the view of some) social annotations with note-taking characteristics (Roam Research) is going to have a powerful tool on their hands. I&#x27;ve taken several passionate, &quot;swings&quot; at this problem but I believe it to be a sort of, &quot;Wicked Problem&quot; as the temptation is always to just sort of, &quot;build a new Internet&#x2F;World Wide Web&quot; but that&#x27;s just my take on this. It&#x27;s worth pointing out that we&#x27;re probably not going to get another, &quot;sociopolitical shot&quot; at creating a, &quot;successor Internet&quot; as attempts to bolster private or commercial networks at scale would have financial incentives for non-compatibility with each other. We kind of saw this in the proto-Internet of the 80&#x27;s. The ARPAnet worked because it could be (inter)nationally homogenized as a, &quot;military&quot; network. You can see why, &quot;startups&quot; can&#x27;t solve this kind of problem. I personally think it&#x27;s unlikely that, &quot;Web3&quot; will do much either.<p>It&#x27;s worth noting though; in the World Wide Web Browser for the NeXT Computer (which was the development IDE for the WWW) there were two features that we don&#x27;t commonly see in web browsers today-- the first was an, &quot;edit&quot; button (think Wikipedia) and the other was a complete lack of, &quot;personal&quot; bookmarks. The idea was that you might keep track of interesting links by keeping an index of them on your own personal site. This seems to anticipate social bookmarking. It&#x27;s also worth noting that in Vannevar Bush&#x27; Memex machine the idea was that people would benefit from viewing the, &quot;search history&quot; (associative trail) of researchers&#x2F;scientists&#x2F;the like as a new kind of research tool and there seems to be little in the way of, &quot;authoring&quot; the microfilms that make up Bush&#x27; early conception of a world wide hypermedia system. I almost think that would be a much richer form of, &quot;social web;&quot; We spend time, &quot;surfing each other&#x27;s wake&quot; getting a fix for each other&#x27;s reading and we add, &quot;noteworthy content&quot; as links to our own or our colleague&#x27;s personal page(s) when we wish to make a contribution to the literature rather than having comments sections or social newsfeeds. You preserve openness without turning the international communication network into a bathroom wall. Food for thought!<p>(The Internet has yet to be invented and the computer revolution hasn&#x27;t happened yet. Remember!)
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taubekabout 3 years ago
Looks really great!
ei8thsabout 3 years ago
this is really cool.