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Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

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Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

#11

I had this exact idea and I've described it to colleagues before. Fun to see parallel evolution. It feels like a simple concept that should already exist, so I'm surprised it's not more commonly attempted. But you're missing a few of the features that I came up with that build on the initial idea. I haven't gotten around to implementing it yet, but it's on my todo list for this year/next year. I was planning to build…

would be curious to know what other features you thought about

Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

#13
>Yes, it's sometimes good to know how you ended up somewhere, but I think what's most valuable about "research" is the synthesis part — grabbing parts of larger wholes, rearranging, recombining, thinking with the material. A small step in this direction could be persisting scroll position or maybe selection, and making the history editable — allowing users to remove dead ends, add notes, etc.

I need to know how this guy will escape the curse of reimplementing a less-VR version of XanaduSpace over HTTPS. Will search his RSS.

Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

#14

This is pretty neat! And I strongly suggest that you contact Kay Xu , who is doing research on sensemaking [1] [2] and berrypicking [3], I think he is currently working on newer and better version of his approach with browser extensions (as opposed to a separate renderer), and you both would benefit from collaboration. [1] https://vis4sense.github.io/sensemap/paper.pdf [2] https://vis4sense.github.io/sensemap/ [3] ht…

No FF support :(

Also [The old version of SenseMap is no longer being maintained. A new version called HistoryMap is currently under development ] > site is dead .

Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

#20
post #16

Looks like the stuff of dreams and nightmares for a ADHD user. Am I the only one who regularly ends up a browsing session with 300 tabs? This feels like a feature I'd overuse, and which would only make my life much worse.

I had exactly the same. I need something to keep me on track. Or, at least something that signals me "headsup! you are rabbit-holing" rather than encouraging me to rabbit-hole.

OTOH, being able to quickly go back to the junction where I left the path I was supposed to follow, is invaluable too.

In vim, I also never got my head around the undo-branching feature. I understand it, but fail to use it in practice. I guess my ADHD brain can handle linear history better than a branching history.

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