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Discoveries like kinopio.club is precisely why I find myself browsing HN every morning. This is incredible! It is now going to take over the world, and I don't

Discoveries like kinopio.club is precisely why I find myself browsing HN every morning. This is incredible! It is now going to take over the world, and I don't think it was meant to. <offtopic> This reminds me. For quite some time, I've been thinking about how the "infinite canvas" concept could be applied to a browser navigation (replacing tabs, history and bookmarks). Something like "tab overview" in Safari, but instead of just currently opened tabs, it takes you to an infinite canvas of tabs. </offtopic>

ilaksh 5y ago
I think the issue is that the computer does not have infinite resources. Even with tabs where they are hidden most of the time it's a big engineering challenge. If you can zoom out and expect all activities to continue in the iframes.. it can work but there is just a limit. But besides the infinite thing, I had kind of the same idea last week when I was looking for a mind mapping tool that I could just embed web pages in.
- pketh 5y ago
  Re infinite, Kinopio also uses tricks like this where the <canvas> you paint on is only viewport sized but moves when you scroll to give the illusion that it covers the page. That said, as cool as infinite sounds, you might not even want that irl. Truely infinite space, like in real life, is harder to find things in, and the content is likely less focused on a single topic, and therefore harder for a human to parse. (That said, I’m the kind of browser tab user to starts closing things after I get to like 10)
  - vladstudio 5y ago
    hey, you might like my wardrobe thing :-) https://wardrobe.vlad.studio/ https://wardrobe.vlad.studio/
    - beaconstudios 5y ago
      that's actually pretty cool! I often find myself researching a topic and then reluctantly having to close a ton of tabs when I have to do something else. This is a great solution - installing this, thanks.
- tshaddox 5y ago
  I wouldn’t focus that much on the word “infinite.” It’s more like “unbounded” or even just “big enough that you’re exceedingly unlikely to run out of space.”
pketh 5y ago
bah, world domination just sounds like stress to me :)
dang 5y ago
It was a Show HN in 2020—might be of interest: Show HN: Kinopio.club – visual thinking, brainstorming tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24132631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24132631 - Aug 2020 (64 comments)

ilaksh 5y ago

I think the issue is that the computer does not have infinite resources. Even with tabs where they are hidden most of the time it's a big engineering challenge. If you can zoom out and expect all activities to continue in the iframes.. it can work but there is just a limit. But besides the infinite thing, I had kind of the same idea last week when I was looking for a mind mapping tool that I could just embed web pages in.

pketh 5y ago
Re infinite, Kinopio also uses tricks like this where the <canvas> you paint on is only viewport sized but moves when you scroll to give the illusion that it covers the page. That said, as cool as infinite sounds, you might not even want that irl. Truely infinite space, like in real life, is harder to find things in, and the content is likely less focused on a single topic, and therefore harder for a human to parse. (That said, I’m the kind of browser tab user to starts closing things after I get to like 10)
- vladstudio 5y ago
  hey, you might like my wardrobe thing :-) https://wardrobe.vlad.studio/ https://wardrobe.vlad.studio/
  - beaconstudios 5y ago
    that's actually pretty cool! I often find myself researching a topic and then reluctantly having to close a ton of tabs when I have to do something else. This is a great solution - installing this, thanks.
tshaddox 5y ago
I wouldn’t focus that much on the word “infinite.” It’s more like “unbounded” or even just “big enough that you’re exceedingly unlikely to run out of space.”

pketh 5y ago

bah, world domination just sounds like stress to me :)

dang 5y ago

It was a Show HN in 2020—might be of interest: Show HN: Kinopio.club – visual thinking, brainstorming tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24132631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24132631 - Aug 2020 (64 comments)