Comment by robotamerica 2 days ago
found this on your ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear Blog. having fun with it. set it up like my zen browser (with the sidebar + pinned tabs) and testing it out for my productivity stack at work. I themed out the glide-hint css via userChrome.css to better match my aesthetics. keep up the great work, i will be keenly following along.
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i typically have 5 tabs open, no more, no less. i always have them in the same order so that i can navigate via alt+1, alt+2, alt+3, etc.. one tab is always my personalised homescreen which has all the main links+software i use in a day. having them in the same order means i don't even need to look at the sidebar to navigate to them, it just helps to see what tab i am focused on sometimes.
with glide you can also make keymaps:
glide.keymaps.set("normal", "gd", () => openOrFocus("docs.google.com/document", "https://docs.google.com"), { description: "Go Docs" });
so i can close a tab quickly in normal mode using: tx. then hit gd to open google docs as an example.
i do have a hidden bookmarks bar with a ton of junk and sites i rarely open, but it is there if i need to find something.
Huh. I always end up with a mini tab explosion every time I do anything intensive like skimming docs or shopping/product comparison. Does that ever happen to you? Or do you just close all the resulting tabs as soon as you're done?
Sorry if the questions are a little much; as a tab hoarder I'm always curious when productive people make do with small numbers of tabs.
no worries about the questions, happy to share. i am pretty good at closing off unused tabs as i don't like the clutter.
for comparative work i use split tabs and for document skimming i use reader mode + anytime i feel overwhelmed i will start saving things to pocket to skim or search through later.
How many tabs do you have open on average? Do you ever have trouble finding tabs with just being able to see the favicon?