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It’s opera:speeddial. A grid of thumbnails 5xN that I use daily: searches, gmails, translate, youtube, docs, tv series bookmarks, links for what I’m working on
by wruza 5y ago
It’s opera:speeddial. A grid of thumbnails 5xN that I use daily: searches, gmails, translate, youtube, docs, tv series bookmarks, links for what I’m working on right now, links for remembering to educate/research myself on.
If someone asked me how to change it, I’d say that I want not that stupid grid, but a surface with smaller (but varying) tiles organized into groups (which are bookmark folders). E.g. the top row for services I use often with medium icons and titles below them. Below that, to the left, a column of non-tall (hierarchical) rows with links to various documentation (~15 of them which right now live in a folder on a bookmarks bar), like node fs, express {index, {request, response}}, bulma {index, {buttons, forms}}. Small icon and text to the right, offset for subitems, you get the idea. To the right of that a column of address box and various search boxes for npm, google, images, wiki, etc. No need for the address bar at the top, just focus on it in the tab area and allow to <tab> my way to other searches. Below that: few other categories like “attic”, “work”, “to read”, also placed/layouted by myself (but not with css, give me easy structure and mouse-way to do it). I actually want this in file explorers too. These grid/table interfaces are nice for a naive user, but are stupid as hell for those who want to organize their “start area”.
- vladstudio 5y agoAhh, thank you! I _think_ my extension does things almost exactly the way you described. Alas, it is, for now, for Chrome only. https://new-tab.vlad.studio https://new-tab.vlad.studio Thanks again - the idea to "<tab> my way to other searches" is inspiring. I'll give it a thought.
- wruza 5y agoHoly. This could be a reason to try switch to chrome for me again, thanks for sharing! And btw I think it’s completely worth hitting the frontpage.
- vladstudio 5y agoI could not agree more :-) thanks!
- vladstudio 5y agoNecessary disclaimer - the primary goal of my extension is yet another way to deliver my artworks to my users' screens. I wrote a bit about it here - https://vlad.studio/blog-post/1002 https://vlad.studio/blog-post/1002 . Hope you are not annoyed too much with my selling vlad.studio accounts through the extension!