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Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

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Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

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Post by amadeusw »

This is great, I appreciate the ability to save and restore the "trails".

Similarly to OP and many other like-minded commenters, I've also built an interface for rabbit-holing [0]. This is a 10 year old, purely JS+CSS solution you can open in your browser. It's limited to Wikipedia and its UI seems broken after Wikipedia's style updates, but nevertheless wanted to share the source code [1] for anyone who's interested

[0] https://amadeusw.com/WikiDive/ [1] https://github.com/AmadeusW/WikiDive

Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

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Post by [deleted] »

bee_rider wrote: post #92
berkes wrote: post #22

Slightly unrelated: > As an aside, I also use this technique for navigating code with Vim, where a single shortcut goes to a definition of a function in a new pane I was intrigued by this, and searched the author's github for their .vim. This is how they do that: nnoremap gF vgF https://github.com/szymonkaliski/dotfiles/blob/357fc7c76ca86... and nnoremap gD :call CocActionAsync('jumpDefinition', 'vsplit') https://git…

For any vim feature we can think of, somebody has implemented it. So I say this knowing that I’ve almost certainly just not seen it yet. But, it would be sort of nice if there was a key combo that basically said “just bring me to this definition if moving there would still leave some of the currently visible text on my screen (so I’m not jumping out of my current context and getting lost), but if it is any further of…

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Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

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Post by sourcepluck »

anthk wrote: post #97
sourcepluck wrote: post #96

I wonder if someone will implement this in Nyxt... it seems appropriate for such a browser.

https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/global-history-tree.org Already done As Nyxt is for browsers what Emacs is for editors, you can put crazy stuff on it with very little.

I guess it does count... I knew about global-history-tree, but maybe the visualisation in the blog fooled me into thinking this was somehow a bit /different/. Maybe Nyxt could use some slick demo videos :)

Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

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Post by Dylan16807 »

pjerem wrote: post #86
dmvdoug wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I regularly have to declare tab bankruptcy. By which I mean I bookmark the several hundred still-open tabs in a folder named after the date of said declaration. …you know, in case I, uh, want to continue to work through them some other day... :|

Isn’t that the history feature ? :)

Well chrome only stores history for 90 days. And firefox has some mystery algorithm if you don't override it. But even if that gets fixed, raw history is a horrible mess compared to saving just the tabs that stayed open.

Also a bookmark folder is itself inferior to actually saving tabs with the per-tab history intact.

Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

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Post by Izkata »

sigtstp wrote: post #53

Interesting! Some overlap with these Firefox add-ons: - Tree Style Tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... (more simplistic, no session saving functionality) - Tree Tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-tabs (more complex, can also save sessions, but incompatible with some other add-ons and not evaluated for security by Mozilla) Neither rearrange tabs in the window, j…

Firefox did have an addon to show tabs in a grid in the same window, but it died along with XUL.

Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

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Post by ukuina »

davidcollantes wrote: post #82
ukuina wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was going to suggest this. https://browser.horse is more feature-complete for daily usage.

Yes, but it costs $100 (currently on discount, original $200).

True, and it is perpetually "discounted". A free trial would be neat.

Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

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Post by ukuina »

jschrf wrote: post #91

Reminds of Hofstadter's concept of the "Parallel Terraced Scan". Kind of a mix between breadth-first and depth-first search or unsupervised learning. Nice write-up here: https://www.menimagerie.com/manuscripts/2018/6/9/v-douglas-h...

The font on that page is lovely.

Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

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Post by skavi »

kristopolous wrote: post #24

I made something like this over 20 years ago. It also had full text searching of the contents of the page and also worked as a browser history. I used it for a few years. The real solution I saw in a roomful of butcher paper tucked in cabinets in the basement of a really dedicated guy who had a learning disability. He went through textbooks and had to come up with his own special syntax in order to comprehend the tex…

Could you explain the linking system in another way? it’s not quite clicking for me.

What does it mean to unroll the earmarked “indexing” roll to the linked region?

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