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> I wonder if this "I want to read this but I'll set it aside for now" model of browsing might be better served with a different UI metaphor... Sure, you're we
by Arelius 9y ago
> I wonder if this "I want to read this but I'll set it aside for now" model of browsing might be better served with a different UI metaphor...
Sure, you're welcome to design it, I'll even give other methods a try occasionally, but for me every other metaphor has proved worse in some way and I'm perfectly happy working this way, there could be something better, but it isn't bad in a way that I feel needs to get fixed.
- hbosch 9y agoHave you tried tree-style tabs, for instance?
- Arelius 9y agoSure, I think they take up more real-estate and didn't really improve my workflow.
- zzalpha 9y agoWe'll, I can think of one obvious problem right off the bat: when you accumulate enough tabs they're no longer discoverable. Many folks here have offered extensions or workarounds for making finding/searching tabs easier, but to me this is an issue introduced by the UI metaphor, and maybe better solved some other way. Maybe. I just observe that tabs seem to be a cumbersome tool for a very legitimate use case, and I gotta think there must be room to innovate.
- Arelius 9y agoDiscoverability is a bit of a weird metric, if you have very few tabs you don't really need discoverability since you just put the tabs there. So this isn't really strictly worse when you have many tabs.