I just have my browser open the tabs I had open when I last closed the browser.
I have two or three specific sites always open in Firefox and a half-dozen or so in Vivaldi.
Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
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#82Oh please please may I shamelessly link to the Vlad.studio new tab extension [0] - I built it to solve this exact problem for myself, but also as another way for my wallpapers to be seen. This is how my new tab page looks now: [1]
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#83Here is mine in its entirety:
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Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#84Oh please please may I shamelessly link to the Vlad.studio new tab extension [0] - I built it to solve this exact problem for myself, but also as another way for my wallpapers to be seen. This is how my new tab page looks now: [1] [0] https://new-tab.vlad.studio/ [1] https://i.postimg.cc/y8R3x0Yt/my-new-tab.jpg
That looks great!
Do you know of any similar efforts for Firefox?
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#85I just restore the last session to reopen all my tabs.
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#86I have raw html in one file, which contains a list of named links and a bit CSS from one of those "This is a motherfriendly website" variants.
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#87Oh please please may I shamelessly link to the Vlad.studio new tab extension [0] - I built it to solve this exact problem for myself, but also as another way for my wallpapers to be seen. This is how my new tab page looks now: [1] [0] https://new-tab.vlad.studio/ [1] https://i.postimg.cc/y8R3x0Yt/my-new-tab.jpg
That looks great! Do you know of any similar efforts for Firefox?
Thanks! I do not, unfortunately. I'm thinking of making my New Tab just a webpage, though, so it can be used with any browser (with obvious disadvantage of storing your data on someone's server).
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#88I have a couple of folders in the bookmarks bar and I just Ctrl+Click them. There's always one for each project I'm working on, there's one for some admin stuff, and a side project or two.
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#89Empty new tab in Firefox works great. There are also blank new tab extensions if you use Chrome.
I, too, rely on a completely blank tab. I've never seen a need for a "start" page. The context when I open a browser changes almost every time; I never follow a routine.
I like having half a dozen frequently used sites on my start page, as a better bookmark solution. Don't want a bar taking up screen real estate, but if I can click into my issue tracker, doc repo, email, etc from a new tab, that works great and then it goes away once I've loaded the site. Would be great if I could just have iframes of some of them (like the page listing all the timezones for my team so I know what time it is everywhere).
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#90This sounds an awful lot like a portal that was so popular around 2000. That’s the way it used to be. You’d setup a personal portal on Yahoo or MSN or iGoogle or whomever provided your email. Then you’d load up whatever widgets you wanted and placed them in an organized grid. News and fresh content was populated by RSS and you’d have you own personal start page on the Internet. The goal for any portal site was to con…
I think that portals lost traction much before social media rise.
I switched to Altavista, Google because of the lightweight home page.