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one reason tab management is so important is because bookmark management is so bad.
ive tried to solve for this with a thumbnail view for bookmarks on the new tab page:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/yet-another-speed-d...
it uses open graph images so the previews are more useful on a wider range of pages than simple favicons like the native new tab page.
any suggestions or feedback welcome, ama!
when i open a new tab its often to open a bookmark - so for me a speed dial is super useful. here's mine (open source): https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial
exactly!!! yes they are. for thumbnails im using webP which achieves much better compression than the more standard png (like 10:1) which enables us to do a lot more with them. and when navigating fullsize photos, using some intelligent preloading so we never bog out :D
i'll try to get some initial commits pushed up soon. u can follow me here, the project is called montage (open to suggestions on name too lol):
i have one pet peeve with every photo organizer or gallery i've tried: they are slow.. especially for very large galleries. if you read the original google blog post about how they built photos, a lot of effort went into performance. so i took that as inspiration to start building an open source offline-first organizer that takes this performance to your desktop (and up a notch). its not on github yet, but seeing the enthusiasm here i thought i would ask what else would you want to see in it? my hn username is also my github username, for the curious :)
to offer an opposing view: libraries are cool. i frequently reference and revisit links i have saved, and on a rainy day a quick browse of them often inspires a new project or advances some existing work. i don't know what i would gain by blowing that all away. naturally links that are infrequently used settle to the bottom of the list and die anyway.
i do manage my bookmarks visually, which i have found tremendously helpful since i first saw this functionality in opera years ago. its sort of like having album art.
so here is a shameless plug for my open source and cross browser implementation, yet another speed dial:
to help manage this i created a "speed dial" extension and use it basically as a visual bookmark manager. the advantage to tabs in a list is that they are easy to reference visually, and like any bookmark can be sorted and arranged into folders. for example i have one for technical references, various research topics, etc that i plan to come back to. and its easy to pop one off the list to maintain them. check it out if youre curious, its open source!
if anyone streams plesk on a browser, i made an extension that adds 21:9 ultrawide support, a dynamic audio compressor (night mode), library shuffling, and links to trailers. its open source and cross browser too! enhance-o-tron for plex:
me too! so i wrote this extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/yet-another-s...
its oepn source, and feedback always appreciated!
You can check out mine, Yet Another Speed Dial, on GitHub! It's a web extension in vanilla JS:
i made one and it supports mobile. it's also open source :)
that's the inspiration for my browser extension, Yet Another Speed Dial. it works as the new tab page but basically i use it as a visual bookmark manager. i find it way easier to scan my bookmarks as thumbnails to find what i want. it's open source and supports all the major browsers, check it out!
i'm working on this as a browser extension. to get my feet wet i created Yet Another Speed Dial (https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial) which many people find useful, but the end goal is to apply the same kind of richness to all bookmarks and history
as the nazi minister of propaganda once said, "truth is the foundation of the press, and all we ask of it!"
ah i could have used this. my readme is a simulation of a github profile ;)
to elaborate on my experience with the others, generally they are slow or have poor ux for common tasks like search or rename, lack a decent content view (thumbnails), etc
the comment was directed towards the default file managers, nautilus etc, not nnn. i love nnn! keep up the good work!
to me the most underrated thing i miss on Linux compared to mac is the file manager. I'm trying to get nnn setup efficiently but the out of the box options feel incredibly half baked in comparison to finder
that's always irked me about one of the common arguments against permanent DST -- "without DST kids would be going to school in the dark" (instead of coming home in the dark). i mean obviously the clock is the problem