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Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

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Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

#11

Post by sprokolopolis »

I am enjoying this on OSX. I tried Tree Style Tabs in the past, but was not a fan of how it looked. This looks much better and is working nicely so far. In the future it would be nice to see collapse-able tab groups.

Pinned tabs should have a visual distinction, rather than only being pinned to the top. An icon, badge, or subtle change in background shade would work.

Looking good!

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

#13

Post by dhenein »

sprokolopolis wrote: post #11

I am enjoying this on OSX. I tried Tree Style Tabs in the past, but was not a fan of how it looked. This looks much better and is working nicely so far. In the future it would be nice to see collapse-able tab groups. Pinned tabs should have a visual distinction, rather than only being pinned to the top. An icon, badge, or subtle change in background shade would work. Looking good!

Thank you! Really appreciate it. My colleague's fork is tackling pinned tabs and some other cool ideas, check it out! https://github.com/dhdemerson/VerticalTabs

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

#17

Post by lcedp »

mordero wrote: post #2

I've been using Tree Style Tabs[0] with Firefox for a long time. Being able to nest tabs and then collapse them is awesome. It is hard to live without it when using Chrome (I know there is a similar addon for Chrome[1], but it doesn't have the same feel since it just adds a new window off to the side and still has the tabs across the top). [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... [1] https:…

TST is awesome. "Bookmark this tree" & "Close this tree" features make so much sense when one researches some topic.

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

#18

Post by randallsquared »

euank wrote: post #12
asakura89 wrote: post #8

Looks ugly in windows. And show to on the right is not working. Waiting for a better version. :)

"show on the right" required a restart after being checked to work for me in linux. Perhaps that helps?

Oddly enough, the apparent lack of the setting (or maybe it didn't seem to work) drove me to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/side-tabs/ around six or eight months ago.

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

#19

Post by dhenein »

erichurkman wrote: post #16

Slick. I've tried the popular tree style tab extensions a few times over the years, but this one feels the most natural. The others were always too complicated. One nit: the target area to trigger the resize is super tiny. 1 pixel, I think.

Thanks, glad to hear you like it :) Good call on the resize target, I'll look at that!

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

#20

Post by LaikaF »

mordero wrote: post #2

I've been using Tree Style Tabs[0] with Firefox for a long time. Being able to nest tabs and then collapse them is awesome. It is hard to live without it when using Chrome (I know there is a similar addon for Chrome[1], but it doesn't have the same feel since it just adds a new window off to the side and still has the tabs across the top). [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... [1] https:…

This is the feature I miss the most in Chrome. I wish there was a good way to add this.
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