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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 hnlmorg »

cj wrote: post #46
hnlmorg wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

People complain about all sorts of stuff that’s of their own making:

- “The house is a mess”

- “I eat too much junk food / takeaways”

- “I’m so hungover”

Etc

A lot of the time it’s more a just small talk, rather than a genuine complaint. Or in the case of tabs during a screen share, a way of filling an uncomfortable silence while they’re getting set up for a meeting.

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

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Post by specialist »

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?

While both are belligerently user hostile, History is the only feature set worse than Bookmarks.

Safari live updates the displayed history if you reopen a link. Which resets your cursor.

Bulk deleting selected entries deletes. each. and. every. single. entry. one. at. a. time. It can take minutes to delete 100s of entries.

With a bunch of entries selected, to bulk delete them, it's common to accidentally unintentionally reopen them.

There's no way to filter noise entries. Like search results and shopping carts.

Using a treetable, with each visited domain as a top level node, would be spiffy. Double extra bonus points for cascading trees mirroring the URL. As God intended.

Search is painful.

I have similar complaints for Firefox.

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

#53

Post by hnlmorg »

corbezzoli wrote: post #43
bakugo wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Searching for stuff in your history is just as painful as searching from scratch. It doesn’t discern from the stuff that was worth revisiting from the stuff you opened and then closed again because it was garbage.

Which means you then need a browser plugin to manage your history more effectively. And then someone else will say “I don’t understand people who are constantly search for stuff in their history…” followed by them describing their workflow as if it’s the only way to effectively manage data on a computer. ;)

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

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Post by raybb »

It would be nice if they made a video demoing how to use this.

I like the idea but don't really get how this particular extension is used. When you save sessions is there a way to modify them later? or is it assumed you'll delete them and save again each time you change them?

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

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Post by atemerev »

I always start my day with an empty browser window, otherwise I immediately become distracted by the no longer relevant tabs of yesterday. I have opposite problems: it is impossible to make Firefox forget its session after reboot or shutting down the computer.

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

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Post by khimaros »

gpchelkin wrote: post #32

I am using a similar extension Session Sync, but it exists only for Firefox and has an ability to sync sessions. It just saves sessions as bookmark folders, and sync is done natively by Firefox Account Sync. Despite the last update was in 2019, it still works pretty well. As I can see from changelog, sessionic also supports sync [3]. It would be nice if it is added to description/readme. [1] https://github.com/ReDEne…

if you are referring to this change, i don't think it is related to synching between browsers: "Sync autosaved sessions with all views in real-time"

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

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Post by eviks »

corbezzoli wrote: post #44
eviks wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

> If you need to save things, use bookmarks

my losses:

- time spent copying the information, even more so to have the same subgroups/order

- losing that order when you regroup tabs during continuous work

- harder navigation as now I need an extra "bookmarks" UI instead of existing tab lista

What would the universal gains be that would justify this?

> If you don’t, don’t keep clutter around.

Did you notice the word 'sessions' in the title? That's for organizing

> Do you still keep all the files in the download folder since 2013?

Nope, I split them into folders, just like I split my tabs into sessions

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

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Post by wintermutestwin »

cj wrote: post #46
hnlmorg wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

I have ~350 tabs open across 12 thematically titled FF windows. I am not complaining about the # of open tabs - my complaint is that stock browsers suck and that I have to install a bunch of extensions from random sources to get to workflow happiness.

If you have more than 12 tabs open concurrently, vertical tabs are a hard requirement. There isn't even a workable vertical tabs solution for Chrome or Safari. Ironically, Edge and Orion have it out of the box. At least Mozilla has validated Sidebury, but they still make it a big pain to turn off the damn default horizontal tabs.

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

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Post by DavideNL »

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...

Related: I used OneTab a while a few years ago, until i shared a tab with a friend (via e-mail if i remember correct), and later found out that OneTab lists shared tabs of all users publicly on some webserver, even searchable by Search engines. You cannot disable this.

Flabbergasted...

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

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Post by wintermutestwin »

mrtksn wrote: post #8

Safari is doing this great with profiles and tab groups. The profiles help you have multiple workspaces where different sessions are start so you don’t have to sign out and sign in for different accounts all the time. And every profile has a tab group which is a collection of tabs. All that synced across all of your iDevices. However tab groups have a bug that hasn’t been fixed since almost 2 years now: https://apple…

Safari is useless for any workflow that requires >12 tabs because it lacks a vertical tabs solution.
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