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Ask HN: Show me your New Tab
so I'm planning a new tiny web app to scratch my own itches, based on something I did before [0], but:
- a remote web app;
- available for any browser, including mobile;
- managed collections of links (obviously), quick notes, world clocks
- workspaces, or projects
- keyboard driven filtering (a-la Raycast or Alfred).
It got me thinking – how is everybody else using New tab? What is on your new tab page? Ideally, if you can share a screenshot, e.g. [1], I'd appreciate it a lot.
[0] https://new-tab.vlad.studio/
[1] https://postimages.org/ - you can simply Ctrl-V there.
- vladstudio 4y agoI'll start :-) https://i.postimg.cc/9XLZ8mCx/image.png https://i.postimg.cc/9XLZ8mCx/image.png
- thanatos519 4y agoMine is <html><head><title>~</title></head><body bgcolor="black"></body></html>
- vladstudio 4y agocurious what to you usually do after Ctrl-T then?
- mdwalters 4y agoProbably types in the URL or search query next
- 4gotunameagain 4y agoha ! same :) ctrl+t, ctrl+l, the first two letters of the website i intend to visit, enter. duckduckgo as a default search helps because you can do things like: "search term !yt" to search on youtube for example
- mdwalters 4y agohttps://i.postimg.cc/q7HP7JHn/Screenshot-20230131-080451-Firefox.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/q7HP7JHn/Screenshot-20230131-080451-Fir...
- vladstudio 4y agothanks! do you have any way to revisit often used web pages on your phone?
- mdwalters 4y agoi'd use the history function often, i don't like having my recent sites on display, for privacy reasons
- cloudking 4y agoCool idea, how would it work on mobile?
- vladstudio 4y agono idea yet, but hopefully it would work really well :-)
- u2077 4y agohttps://bonjourr.fr https://bonjourr.fr
- vladstudio 4y agoyeah kind of something like that, thanks for the link! I am a big fan of reinventing wheels, though, just for fun (and experience).
- akmann 4y agohttps://i.ibb.co/s9LPd4m/Screenshot-2023-01-31-at-16-21-55.png https://i.ibb.co/s9LPd4m/Screenshot-2023-01-31-at-16-21-55.p...
- vladstudio 4y agothanks! what do you usually do next, after Ctrl-T?
- comprev 4y agoAs I own "old" hardware - iPhone 7; MBA (2017) i5/8GB/256; iPad Air (3rd gen) - I always use a blank page as both start page and new tab. I've found the overhead in processing the "smart" widgets/links makes the device feel much slower, and was a constant reminder how "old" my hardware is.
- vladstudio 4y agonoted! How do you manage the pages that you visit often?
- comprev 4y agoBrowser history or favourites. I found that having a list of frequently visited sites dramatically reduced the number I would visit, including news sources. After a while I realised my "view" of the world/current affairs was from a narrow perspective simply because of the echo chamber that "top 5 frequently visited websites" produced.
- from 4y ago<!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> <title>New Tab</title> <style> html { background-color: #3a3a3a; } </style> </head> </html>
- vladstudio 4y agonoted, thanks!
- ksherlock 4y agoabout:blank
- fuball63 4y agoWhen I gave up social media sites, I created a little site that has some blogs and sites that are interesting to look at, and my new tab page is set to that. Yahoo initially began as a links directory, and I thought that was a nice idea, so I made Yayhoo: https://bmsauer.github.io/yayhoo/ https://bmsauer.github.io/yayhoo/ I like it a lot. I probably need to update it because I haven't done so in a while.
- vladstudio 4y agonice! Links in columns, never fails, always works well.
- fmerian 4y agohttps://papier.app/ https://papier.app/ // really enjoy its simplicity
- vladstudio 4y agothanks! this seems to be for notes only?
- fmerian 4y agoYep!
- emrox 4y agoOn Chrome (browser I use for development) I use the Google Arts & Culture Extension, to have see something nice while working (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-arts-culture/akimgimeeoiognljlfchpbkpfbmeapkh https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-arts-cultur...) On Firefox (my main browser for all non-dev related things) I just use the main screen with the shortcuts - some of them sticky, most are just often visited pages gathered by the browser itself
- antipotoad 4y agoUsing A Fine Start [1], with a collection of links to frequently used sites. [1]: https://afinestart.me/ https://afinestart.me/
- vladstudio 4y agonice, thanks!
- nouryqt 4y agoI use the Tabliss[1] add-on as my new tab and set it to show me a new unsplash background every time instead of every 15 minutes by default and to show me the local weather in the middle. Looks like this right now: https://i.imgur.com/YRGD0gB.png https://i.imgur.com/YRGD0gB.png [1]: https://tabliss.io/ https://tabliss.io/
- vladstudio 4y agothanks for the link! (and the screenshot too)
- saghm 4y agoI wrote a small page that displays a list of "favorites" supplied by the query string that I can "click" with a given keyboard shortcut[1]. This lets me just do <ctrl+t> followed by "0" to go to my first shortcut, "1", for the second, and then going into letters with "a", "b", "c", "d", etc. if there are more than ten (I've never had anywhere close to 36 things that I check often enough to want a minimal shortcut too, but I'm sure someone with the need could come up with some way to modify it to work in a way they liked). I had a Chrome extension that provided a new tab page like this years ago, but when switching to Firefox and not finding something similar, I realized that it wouldn't be too hard to implement it in a browser-independent way. [1]: https://gist.github.com/saghm/6caf46436f204199d622d6c4d6a41cbb https://gist.github.com/saghm/6caf46436f204199d622d6c4d6a41c...
- TechBro8615 4y agoI use about:blank (empty page) via this extension. [0] I don't need a new distraction every time I open a new tab. [0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/empty-new-tab-page/dpjamkmjmigaoobjbekmfgabipmfilij https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/empty-new-tab-page...
- vladstudio 4y agothanks! What do you usually do after Ctrl-T?
- TechBro8615 4y agoI type the URL of the website I want to visit into the URL bar. Usually I only need to type a few characters to find the match. I also have autocomplete and preloading disabled, so that text I enter is not sent to any remote server before I press the return key.
- bravetraveler 4y agoI tend to gravitate towards an empty page, or just leave the default of 'most visited'. For Firefox I disable Pocket and everything, I only really benefit from shortcuts to where I go most I would enjoy moving these features out of my launcher (and the new tab page seems fine): calculator, unit conversion All of that said, I don't really want a lot. I browse by typing what I wish to visit
- gomako 4y agohttps://papier.app/ https://papier.app/ I find it good for keeping temporary notes and to do lists. More than anything I am opening new tabs so it's great to remind me. I us nvAlt for note taking and it's quite a natural extension.
- BerislavLopac 4y agohttps://momentumdash.com/ https://momentumdash.com/
- leros 4y agoI used Papier, which is a Chrome extension that turns your new tab into a Markdown editor. I use it as my scratchpad. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/papier/hhjeaokafplhjoogdemakihhdhffacia https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/papier/hhjeaokafpl...
- lab 4y agoMy custom new tab showing my company's metric updated daily [0] [0] https://p1asm0.notion.site/Change-Logs-1781b2744e61495ba6e87189b751d834?p=4a243f6d2ca54cfdb3b447897aebc50d&pm=c https://p1asm0.notion.site/Change-Logs-1781b2744e61495ba6e87...
- wruza 4y agoEmpty dark page (technically it’s a speeddial with no items because about:blank is too bright). I transitioned from using speeddial to bookmarks bar with links and folders instead, middle-clicking them to open in a new tab. Ctrl-t only for web and history searches. Why: new tab is a “click into unknown” ui pattern. With bookmarks bar I see the target right away (unless it’s in a folder ofc). It’s not even that faster, but feels more predictable.