In Search of a New Tab

jon.bo

6 points·jborichevskiy··6 comments

Was fully expecting this to be "the usual inspirational quote or clock extension, commonly-visited tabs, or my personal pet peeve - recent breaking news articles and photos from disaster zones"

Was pleasantly surprised it wasn't. So many useless lazy new tab designs out there. This is much closer to what I've been looking for every time I bothered to looks for an extension for the new tab.

I use an empty new tab page. I don't want to be distracted when I open a new tab. But I like the idea of a page with links that you often want to visit. But why not put it on the web? Make it easy to open it from the addressbar. Make it possible to share it. Maybe even have multiple linked pages.

> But why not put it on the web?

I probably will, at some point. I take my writing laptop out to nature a fair bit and would like the Obsidian links to still be present if I'm offline. I recognize there are other ways to do this though, local HTML file was simply the dumbest and simplest place to start.

You can make web apps work offline with service workers.

I use a bunch of web apps like that, like a notes app, and the great advantage is that you can open them from the addressbar.

Oh, very neat. Do you know if they do it with PWA or some other approach?

I made these apps myself, and I used SvelteKit, which has a page in the docs with some code you can copy-paste to make apps work offline: https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/service-workers

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