Love this idea! A browser tailored for wiki-style exploration would be amazing, especially for diving deep into interconnected topics.
Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing
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#52Looks 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.
adhd, end up in a lot of rabit holes. Had 1500 tabs once. (It's possible to have these many tabs open)
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#53Interesting! 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, just offer an alternate tree listing of open tabs.
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#54I 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…
You can also pin papers, photos, notes, etc to the wall or a giant pinboard, and then use red string and thumb tacks to link related items, etc.
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#55> For example, a good window manager could replace Cartographist almost completely
I can see a neat way of doing this with Niri[0] and its recent IPC layout interface, combined with an extension like URL in Title[1] to expose the full window URL to the wm. Someone may need to hold my beer
[0]: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri [1]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/url-in-title/ignpac...
Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing
#56Looks 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.
For me tab accumulation is often related to fear of loss, sort of a digital hoarding of things that I might need someday. So it's possible I'd be better here knowing that my history was always there.
I think it would be even more helpful if I could easily tag things along the way, and then quickly search both my tags and content of seen pages. Confidence I could find something again would make it easier for me to close tabs.
For what it's worth, as a fellow ADHD person, these days I regularly go on tab-closing sweeps (generally at some related event, like starting or stopping work for the day or when starting or finishing a task). I try to have one window per ongoing task, and then find places for the other tabs. E.g., if a task represents or is related to a possible to-do, I'll put in in my kanban board. If it's a to-read, it goes to instapaper. If I just thought it was interesting and might want it again, I'll put a line in my LogSeq journal with a short description. The general theory being that if I'm not just hoarding, the I'm saving a tab for a reason, so I should articulate the reason and put the tab somewhere I'll find it again when the the time is right.
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#57Chrome apparently also keeps track of "trails" but i did not find the implementation particularly useful unfortunately
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#58Everybody is talking about the existential risk posed by AI but this guys release this tool in the wild without any rail guards... concerning, really. A bit more seriously, it can be really useful to have a graph of ArXiv tabs instead of a linear range of tabs, this can be very handy when doing a dive in scientific literature.
How does this related to "AI"?
The joke is that this tool is compelling enough that people might die from it.
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#59Is there a way to get this running without having to install the tool chain to build this? Is this an Electron app? Is Electron Fiddle [1] what I am looking for? Can I have Electron Fiddle in the browser?
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#60Interesting! 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…
i’ve only ever seen foxytab rearrange tabs in the window