| Browsers today are not made for the kind of browsing that I often do: playful surfing. When I say playful surfing, this XKCD strip comes to mind: https://xkcd.com/214/ I'm doing an open-ended exploration on what I'd like a new browser to look like, and the workflows/modalities I want it to unlock. Pain points: - Navigating a flat list of tabs feels like a chore - Tab search only indexes title/url, not the content
- If I have 50 tabs opened, currently on tab 35, and remember a vague term I read in one of the 34 tabs before – How do I trace my way back to it? - Bookmarking should be tag based, not folder based - History is siloed My wishlist: - Tree-style tabs sidebar (like the Firefox add-on) - Full-text search over open tabs with ability to narrow down on specific sub-trees - Interaction-aware search ranking. For instance, if you scroll 60% of the way through on one tab and then search for a term that existed at the 55% mark on that tab, it should be show up first. - Tag based bookmarking - Built-in annotation tools & Google-docs style collaborative marginalia - Timeline-based history (Inspired by https://maggieappleton.com/historical-trails) - Bring your own sync server / self-hostable sync server - Everything gets saved to a SQLite database, so you can plug it into your own home-made tools What features would you like to see in a new browser (interface)? What workflows would you want it to unlock? |
Better yet, give me a keyboard-shortcuts.json that I can customize myself, in case one of your commands conflicts with one on my machine.
I want to get in and out of your shitty program as quickly as I can and get on with my life.
~ end old man rant