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It's built with a simple single file PHP that loads a list of links and formats them into collections of topic cards. The edit button lets me update the links file where-ever I am.
It's held centrally on a spare domain, and is set as the home and new tab page on all my machines.
- uses plain text files as storage
- embedded option to run shell scripts while rendering. Eg `!date +%D` would execute date and insert contents.
The part of using text files was that I can leverage unix tools. This allowed me to grep for todos, follow up things. Keep a format that works for me.
To your question about widgets, it mainly renders Markdown dolls so adding HTML should be simple.
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I'm using a local html file as a start page in Safari right now, and used the same file on Windows (Firefox) just a few months ago.
I believe Firefox and Chrome do not allow you to set a local html file as a new tab page. You can set it as a home page but then you need to manually navigate to it after creating a new tab.
Empty new tab in Firefox works great. There are also blank new tab extensions if you use Chrome.
I've never seen a need for a "start" page. The context when I open a browser changes almost every time; I never follow a routine.
Amazingly, it still exists and appears to be up-to-date.
The main/first page of a website was the "frontpage" to its visitors (but it surely felt like a home page to the owner - and it may have been).
In any web event, I think you will be best served by plain old html. It will be faster (in nearly all ways) than next.js or Gatsby.