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Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

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Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

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Post by corbezzoli »

bayindirh wrote: post #10
corbezzoli wrote: post #6

I’ll never understand people who hoard tabs. Every time I’m done with something, I can close all the tabs in a few seconds. A single search can generate 15 tabs, and then after the solution is found I close them all. Anything I can’t handle now is pinned or added to Read Later, depending on the urgency. Same goes with the files on my desktop (which is also the download folder). Select all, delete. Multiple times a da…

The tabs pile up, not because I hoard them, but because the task has not been finished yet. I start researching a thing, or troubleshoot a problem, and I dig for some time. This digging generally routes me to places of internet not found or shown by my search engine of choice, hence if I close that set of tabs, I'll lose another half day to find them. However, I can't touch that set of tabs, because a small or anothe…

Your browser doesn’t have a history tab?

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#42

Post by westurner »

lencastre wrote: post #3

So basically OneTab [1] and/or xBrowserSync [2] but across devices? 1 → https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/onetab/hoi... 2 → https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xbrowsersync/lcbjd...

https://github.com/cnwangjie/better-onetab :

> A better OneTab for Chrome Temporarily removed from firefox V2 is WIP

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#43

Post by corbezzoli »

bakugo wrote: post #39
corbezzoli wrote: post #6

I’ll never understand people who hoard tabs. Every time I’m done with something, I can close all the tabs in a few seconds. A single search can generate 15 tabs, and then after the solution is found I close them all. Anything I can’t handle now is pinned or added to Read Later, depending on the urgency. Same goes with the files on my desktop (which is also the download folder). Select all, delete. Multiple times a da…

Do you also throw away books after you read them once? Just curious.

I think you’re talking about browser bookmarks.

Open tabs are not books, they’re mail. You deal with it and discard what you don’t need. Heck we even have browser history to find what we saw in the past.

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#44

Post by corbezzoli »

eviks wrote: post #21
corbezzoli wrote: post #6

I’ll never understand people who hoard tabs. Every time I’m done with something, I can close all the tabs in a few seconds. A single search can generate 15 tabs, and then after the solution is found I close them all. Anything I can’t handle now is pinned or added to Read Later, depending on the urgency. Same goes with the files on my desktop (which is also the download folder). Select all, delete. Multiple times a da…

Do you also fail to understand the barbarians who sort their files into folders?

Tabs are not files. If you need to save things, use bookmarks. If you don’t, don’t keep clutter around. Do you still keep all the files in the download folder since 2013?

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

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Post by Ndymium »

corbezzoli wrote: post #41
bayindirh wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The tabs pile up, not because I hoard them, but because the task has not been finished yet. I start researching a thing, or troubleshoot a problem, and I dig for some time. This digging generally routes me to places of internet not found or shown by my search engine of choice, hence if I close that set of tabs, I'll lose another half day to find them. However, I can't touch that set of tabs, because a small or anothe…

Your browser doesn’t have a history tab?

History is an unorganized pile of stuff, I wouldn't be able to find things I once had open possibly months ago - if I'm not lucky I can't even remember what page titles to search for.

In my tab bar things are organized into groups that I collapse when I'm not actively using. Thus I can easily find those GitHub issues, discussion forum posts, datasheets, or whatever else I was looking at when I last worked on e.g. my brother's keyboard USB conversion, which sadly had to be put on hold due to other life stuff.

This could be replicated with bookmarks, but I have no reason to use bookmarks when my tab bar already works the way I want it to.

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#46

Post by cj »

hnlmorg wrote: post #15
corbezzoli wrote: post #6

I’ll never understand people who hoard tabs. Every time I’m done with something, I can close all the tabs in a few seconds. A single search can generate 15 tabs, and then after the solution is found I close them all. Anything I can’t handle now is pinned or added to Read Later, depending on the urgency. Same goes with the files on my desktop (which is also the download folder). Select all, delete. Multiple times a da…

I never understand people who can’t understand that different people have different usage patterns and workflows.

It’s hard to understand the “I have a hundred tabs open” usage pattern because the same people constantly complain that they have too many tabs open.

It’s logical to not understand other people’s workflows when they themselves complain about their own workflow frequently and vocally (not on HN, but where I work it’s a frequent comment whenever anyone is getting ready to screenshare something)

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#47

Post by cj »

hnlmorg wrote: post #22
spicybright wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If anything we should applaud how flexible modern software can to accommodate a user. I still remember a time before tabbed browsing existed.

> I still remember a time before tabbed browsing existed. To be fair, it wasn’t actually that long ago :) (or maybe I’m just old too?)

Browser tabs were invented about “25% of the average human lifespan” years ago. I think that classifies as “long ago” :)

A bit of a scary way to measure time, I definitely feel old now.

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

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Post by okwhateverdude »

Ndymium wrote: post #45
corbezzoli wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your browser doesn’t have a history tab?

History is an unorganized pile of stuff, I wouldn't be able to find things I once had open possibly months ago - if I'm not lucky I can't even remember what page titles to search for. In my tab bar things are organized into groups that I collapse when I'm not actively using. Thus I can easily find those GitHub issues, discussion forum posts, datasheets, or whatever else I was looking at when I last worked on e.g. my…

TreeStyleTabs in Firefox has a feature to bookmark the whole tree you've built. I find that very useful for a similar workflow as you. And keeping the tree structure is important because it lets me back up a level or two in case there were more resources to explore that I've not.

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

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Post by hnlmorg »

cj wrote: post #47
hnlmorg wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I still remember a time before tabbed browsing existed. To be fair, it wasn’t actually that long ago :) (or maybe I’m just old too?)

Browser tabs were invented about “25% of the average human lifespan” years ago. I think that classifies as “long ago” :) A bit of a scary way to measure time, I definitely feel old now.

Yeah, but that’s not beyond the memory of the average person. Usually phrases like “I remember a time before” prefix something that most people weren’t alive for.

That all said, it’s still longer than I thought. Time flys!

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