Show HN: Organize your open Chrome Tabs like apps on a desktop (opens in new tab)

Vivaldi, the Chrome-engined browser made by people who left Opera after it was bought by a dodgy Chinese company, has (like Opera), tabs that are configurable to appear on any side of the window:

https://vivaldi.com/wp-content/themes/vivaldicom-theme/img/f...

from: https://vivaldi.com/features/tab-management/

as well as a open (and closed) tabs manager across all windows: https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/tabs/window-panel/

I guess I've been using tabs on the side for over 10 years now. IntelliJ also has this feature for open files.

Neat idea but I'm not sure it scales to handle the sometimes hundreds of tabs some of us hoarders have open at once.

This is so sick. I'm going to use this. I'm getting to that point to where, "open tabs" and, "temporary bookmark(s)" are largely that same thing. I've got 23 tabs open right now and each is something I want to, "remember;" but it adds to cognitive load to keep track of, "things not wanting to get lost."

There's something in the air that sort of sings; the first person to figure out a better, "experience" for the current World Wide Web++ which effectively would amount to better way of doing Bookmarks, Open Tabs, History, and (in the view of some) social annotations with note-taking characteristics (Roam Research) is going to have a powerful tool on their hands. I've taken several passionate, "swings" at this problem but I believe it to be a sort of, "Wicked Problem" as the temptation is always to just sort of, "build a new Internet/World Wide Web" but that's just my take on this. It's worth pointing out that we're probably not going to get another, "sociopolitical shot" at creating a, "successor Internet" as attempts to bolster private or commercial networks at scale would have financial incentives for non-compatibility with each other. We kind of saw this in the proto-Internet of the 80's. The ARPAnet worked because it could be (inter)nationally homogenized as a, "military" network. You can see why, "startups" can't solve this kind of problem. I personally think it's unlikely that, "Web3" will do much either.

It's worth noting though; in the World Wide Web Browser for the NeXT Computer (which was the development IDE for the WWW) there were two features that we don't commonly see in web browsers today-- the first was an, "edit" button (think Wikipedia) and the other was a complete lack of, "personal" bookmarks. The idea was that you might keep track of interesting links by keeping an index of them on your own personal site. This seems to anticipate social bookmarking. It's also worth noting that in Vannevar Bush' Memex machine the idea was that people would benefit from viewing the, "search history" (associative trail) of researchers/scientists/the like as a new kind of research tool and there seems to be little in the way of, "authoring" the microfilms that make up Bush' early conception of a world wide hypermedia system. I almost think that would be a much richer form of, "social web;" We spend time, "surfing each other's wake" getting a fix for each other's reading and we add, "noteworthy content" as links to our own or our colleague's personal page(s) when we wish to make a contribution to the literature rather than having comments sections or social newsfeeds. You preserve openness without turning the international communication network into a bathroom wall. Food for thought!

(The Internet has yet to be invented and the computer revolution hasn't happened yet. Remember!)

Looks really great!

this is really cool.