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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 eviks »

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?

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

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Post by hnlmorg »

spicybright wrote: post #18
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.

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?)

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

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Post by eviks »

Tiberium wrote: post #13
ajma wrote: post #2

where does data get synced to?

It doesn't get synced anywhere - "cross-browser" in this case means that the extension works in multiple different browsers, but you still have to manually export/import sessions between them.

thanks for the clarification, what an awful workflow

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

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Post by clumsysmurf »

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…

FWIW, I am able to keep tabs organized in Safari because it has tab groups. But my Firefox sessions always explode because there is no such feature, creating a self perpetuating problem of disorganization begetting more disorganization.

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

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Post by sapiol »

clumsysmurf wrote: post #24
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…

FWIW, I am able to keep tabs organized in Safari because it has tab groups. But my Firefox sessions always explode because there is no such feature, creating a self perpetuating problem of disorganization begetting more disorganization.

You might be interested in the Firefox Extension "Tree Style Tab". I can't live without it and refuse to use any browser that can't offer any similar experience.

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

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Post by smcleod »

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…

Yeah I’m the same. As soon as I’m done with a tab I’ll close it, I’d rather close something and reopen it than have a bunch of sites open for no good reason.

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

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Post by Beijinger »

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…

It is really important to stay on top of the literature in your field. Here's my approach:

1. See an interesting paper, open in a web browser

2. Start to read, but get distracted, leave for later

3. Find a new study, open that one.

4. Have too many tabs open, close all.

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

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Post by dxuh »

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 visit HackerNews and immediately see a few posts I find interesting and open them in background tabs. I'm scared to just read one and then go back to the home page, because it might have disappeared or changed the title or something like that. Then I read one or two of the open tabs, get distracted and do something else. That nets +3-+5 tabs. Repeat the same on reddit and YouTube. The fear of hitting the back button is much worse on those sites.

The other kind of tab-explosion is when I am doing something specific, like researching some topic and open tabs end up being stuff that I deemed worth reading or that remains a to-read. And often enough I don't come back to them and they just sit around. As soon as even more tabs have piled up to make them disappear across the tab bar, they are almost lost in my open tabs forever.

Also I am not addicted to heroin, but I can understand that people can get there and can't get out. I keep a very clean apartment, but I understand that not everyone can. I go to the gym 5-6 times a week, but I understand that not everyone can. I consider it part of becoming an adult to understand that not everyone finds it easy to do things you yourself find easy to do.

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

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Post by themoonisachees »

clumsysmurf wrote: post #24
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…

FWIW, I am able to keep tabs organized in Safari because it has tab groups. But my Firefox sessions always explode because there is no such feature, creating a self perpetuating problem of disorganization begetting more disorganization.

Firefox has tab groups. By default it only has a few preprogrammed groups but extensions can add more

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

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Post by themoonisachees »

sputr wrote: post #20

Does it, by any chance, have any kind of an api a bash script could use? For work flows like: "open browser, then open saved session X"?

I don't think this is exactly the workflow you're asking for, but there exists an extension that creates a folder structure that you can interact with using OS tools such as bash.
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