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The problem with history is it loses spacial relativity. How does one tab relate to another. Which sites opened which tabs. Tabs are a poor but semi-adequate

by basch 6y ago

The problem with history is it loses spacial relativity. How does one tab relate to another. Which sites opened which tabs. Tabs are a poor but semi-adequate way to preserve the relationship between urls, by understanding their distance from each other and the rules of how they open. Another thing tabs do, is allow you to designate what NOT to return. If you use something like GoToTab [1], it will specifically NOT return results that have been closed. Merging everything to history doesnt give you that separation between "not relevant in the future" and "maybe relevant in the future." [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/goto-tab/hjfkaobgkmaeomgdhmhhipdbjdhhjkoi?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/goto-tab/hjfkaobgk...

Izkata 6y ago
> How does one tab relate to another. Which sites opened which tabs. > Tabs are a poor but semi-adequate way to preserve the relationship between urls, I recommend Tree Style Tab [0], which fully preserves this relationship. When one tab opens another, the child tab automatically becomes a child in the tree, making the whole thing very self-organizing. Also being a tree, the parents can be expanded/collapsed, if there's a group you're putting aside for the moment. That's for Firefox, at least. It looks like there's a few that other people have made for Chrome [1][2], but I can't speak to how well they perform. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidewise-tree-style-tabs/biiammgklaefagjclmnlialkmaemifgo?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidewise-tree-styl... [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tree-style-tab/oicakdoenlelpjnkoljnaakdofplkgnd?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tree-style-tab/oic...
- basch 6y ago
  But how does that preserve the relationship after I want them to no longer be tabs? The convert tabs to history or tabs to bookmarks destroys that relationship data.

by basch 6y ago

Izkata 6y ago

> How does one tab relate to another. Which sites opened which tabs. > Tabs are a poor but semi-adequate way to preserve the relationship between urls, I recommend Tree Style Tab [0], which fully preserves this relationship. When one tab opens another, the child tab automatically becomes a child in the tree, making the whole thing very self-organizing. Also being a tree, the parents can be expanded/collapsed, if there's a group you're putting aside for the moment. That's for Firefox, at least. It looks like there's a few that other people have made for Chrome [1][2], but I can't speak to how well they perform. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidewise-tree-style-tabs/biiammgklaefagjclmnlialkmaemifgo?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidewise-tree-styl... [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tree-style-tab/oicakdoenlelpjnkoljnaakdofplkgnd?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tree-style-tab/oic...

basch 6y ago
But how does that preserve the relationship after I want them to no longer be tabs? The convert tabs to history or tabs to bookmarks destroys that relationship data.