Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

szymonkaliski.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

71–80 of 122 posts

Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

#73

Post by msephton »

arromatic wrote: post #25
felipesabino wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I mentioned, it is a research project, so I would not expect production ready code or multi-browser support. They are indeed not supporting the old version, as they are rewriting almost everything from scratch. Last time I had contact with them, they were exploring using Plasmo [1] as building block for the extension, instead of doing everything vanilla as they did in the 1st version, which would offer cross-brows…

Thanks . The the site [1] dead linked in [2] [1] http://sensemap.io/

FWIW, sites [1] and [2] work for me.

Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

#74

Post by ta988 »

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…

Sideberry is a more advanced version of those.

Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

#76

Post by popol1991 »

We developed a solution in the same space called Skipper (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/skipper-fewer-tabs-...)

Two features to help with rabbit holing, both automatic:

1. Close tabs that are not used for the ongoing topic

2. Group the browsing history by topic so that users can go back and review their research journey

Here's the website: https://www.skipper.co/

Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

#77

Post by keepamovin »

gmurphy wrote: post #3

This is sweet! When we made Chrome some of us (OK only me) were enamoured with an IE shell browser named iRider - it had tree style tabs and pinning, so was useful in very similar ways IIRC one of the things they did well that could work here is batch control of tabs by dragging across them - you could click on a close or pin button, then drag vertically across other tabs to apply that action - it made handling the g…

I would like to add this horizontal historying to our "virtualized Chrome" (chrome as a client server app) BrowserBox, and its SaaS, CloudTabs. https://browse.cloudtabs.net

Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

#80

Post by cloverich »

Yoric wrote: 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 recently discovered the working memory component of ADHD and it became somewhat of a transformative moment for me. It helped me realize that clearing my plate was the most important activity I could do on any given day, because it created the space I needed to focus, and reduced the strain I felt in a day. It has taken time but I've now found when I look at tabs (or screenshots or whatever clutter) and think not about what I'll save or lose, but about how much more I will do if I don't have the clutter, I start to see it not as something lost but something gained, and it has helped. It doesn't always work, but sometimes it does, and its amazing on those days.
Post reply on HN