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Opera has sessions too, super nice if you want to clean up those 100 tags that accumulated in research.

by Sprint 13y ago

zamalek 13y ago
I was certain that I had seen it before - I think it was in Opera. The UX around it was horrible, it somehow got in my way (I can't remember why). I think the more important problem is how to solve sessions from a UX perspective. Another problem is that when you are building up all of those tabs you are setting up a lot of context in your mind, returning to that context is going to be jarring or impossible. Maybe a replay feature (to show how you created that session, link-by-link) would be a nice idea: "remind me what I was doing."
- mkr-hn 13y ago
  > Maybe a replay feature (to show how you created that session, link-by-link) would be a nice idea That sounds like browser history.
  - zamalek 13y ago
    That's a valuable and thought-provoking comment that deals with the meat of my comment. To make it crystal clear: Lets say you have 7 tabs open. Your browser history may include many more websites than were present in those 7 tabs: websites that you skimmed, rejected and immediately closed during your research, or websites you visited while slacking off. The history also doesn't describe how you reached those 7 tabs - it describes everything you have seen. 2 of them could be search results, 5 of them could be pages opened from the search results, and 2 of those 5 could be navigations done without opening new tabs. There may be 20 or so tabs that you opened that are now closed. It is not straightforward at all to manually derive that information from a simple list of sites that you saw. The replay would consist of seeing yourself navigate to that current state (ignoring all the abandoned paths a.k.a. closed tabs) - screenshots with the links you used highlighted as an uninspired example. Live action replay might have been more appropriate.
    - mkr-hn 13y ago
      It sounds like you mistook my comment for flippancy. I think it's a good idea, and it sounded like browser history was a good conceptual starting point.
      - zamalek 13y ago
        Indeed I did. Thanks for the feedback none-the-less, I guess my comment did need clarification. This would be really interesting to try out with that ExoBrowser tech - if I ever had the time.
        spolu 13y ago
        We'll release builds on OSX & Linux in the coming days. It'll then be quite easy to hack the default browser. We'll write a doc about it as well!

Opera has sessions too, super nice if you want to clean up those 100 tags that accumulated in research.

by Sprint 13y ago

Opera has sessions too, super nice if you want to clean up those 100 tags that accumulated in research.

I was certain that I had seen it before - I think it was in Opera. The UX around it was horrible, it somehow got in my way (I can't remember why). I think the more important problem is how to solve sessions from a UX perspective. Another problem is that when you are building up all of those tabs you are setting up a lot of context in your mind, returning to that context is going to be jarring or impossible. Maybe a replay feature (to show how you created that session, link-by-link) would be a nice idea: "remind me what I was doing."

mkr-hn 13y ago
> Maybe a replay feature (to show how you created that session, link-by-link) would be a nice idea That sounds like browser history.
- zamalek 13y ago
  That's a valuable and thought-provoking comment that deals with the meat of my comment. To make it crystal clear: Lets say you have 7 tabs open. Your browser history may include many more websites than were present in those 7 tabs: websites that you skimmed, rejected and immediately closed during your research, or websites you visited while slacking off. The history also doesn't describe how you reached those 7 tabs - it describes everything you have seen. 2 of them could be search results, 5 of them could be pages opened from the search results, and 2 of those 5 could be navigations done without opening new tabs. There may be 20 or so tabs that you opened that are now closed. It is not straightforward at all to manually derive that information from a simple list of sites that you saw. The replay would consist of seeing yourself navigate to that current state (ignoring all the abandoned paths a.k.a. closed tabs) - screenshots with the links you used highlighted as an uninspired example. Live action replay might have been more appropriate.
  - mkr-hn 13y ago
    It sounds like you mistook my comment for flippancy. I think it's a good idea, and it sounded like browser history was a good conceptual starting point.
    - zamalek 13y ago
      Indeed I did. Thanks for the feedback none-the-less, I guess my comment did need clarification. This would be really interesting to try out with that ExoBrowser tech - if I ever had the time.
      - spolu 13y ago
        We'll release builds on OSX & Linux in the coming days. It'll then be quite easy to hack the default browser. We'll write a doc about it as well!