Comments on: The Browser Inbox- Organization by Tabs

By: michi

michi — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:41:34 +0000

Great suggestions, I do these things all the time now (a year later…I’m sure lots of people do too.)

But, instead of copying links and so on, *click* the wheel button on your mouse (it’s a button too!) to open a link in a new background tab.

To get to the google search bar, hit Ctrl+k (or Cmd+k on a mac) on a mac, Cmd+w closes the current tab.

Also, every now and then I discover some new interesting top and end up opening 40+ tabs on it. As I’ll never be able to read them all in one day, I “save all tabs” to a bookmarks folder and then can open them all up in tabs on a later date, delete the original tabs folder, and at the end of that day, resave the remaining in a new folder again.

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By: glen

glen — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:52:12 +0000

@Leo: Great Idea!

I don’t even think you’d have to hit enter, if you didn’t want to. You could also achieve the same effect by typing the task into the address bar and not hitting enter.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:15:22 +0000

I didn’t know about ‘V’. I ctrl-click a lot from within reader for the same reason. It also lets me stay within the google reader tab without digging through preferences.

If only our inhouse tools at worked worked in firefox.

By: Leo

Leo — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:05:41 +0000

OK, how about this:

If you have a task that comes up while you’re at the computer, and it doesn’t have to do with any site, just pop open a new tab (control T in firefox), press tab to get to the google search box (it may vary on your computer), type the task name and hit enter.

This will result in a google search result page, but you could ignore the results. For example, if I need to call my mom, I could quickly pop open a tab, type call mom, hit enter, and I’ve got my bookmark for that task. When I’m done, I close the tab.

Quick and easy! This is an interesting idea, Glen.

By: glen

glen — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:26:05 +0000

hrm… interesting question. If you had some other tasks that had to be done at a specific site, those would work too.

IE. paying bills, research… I’m sure there are more, I just can’t think of any off the top of my head.

I imagine this could be even more powerful with the help of a web sticky program where you can attach virtual sticky notes to web pages.

Anybody else have some other physical examples?

By: Leo

Leo — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:10:17 +0000

Good post, Glen. I do the same thing with Google Reader, except that if I don’t have time to read it, I bookmark it in Google Bookmarks under the tag “Inbox” … then I process my inbox at some point in the day.

Question: could the Browser Inbox be used to bookmark other types of tasks (not just reading/writing about web pages)?

By: glen

glen — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:08:43 +0000

Yeah, I used to do the same with Del.icio.us, but I am tentatively trying out Google Notebook right now.

By: Kaj Rietberg

Kaj Rietberg — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:40:08 +0000

I mostly do that to. But when it is to much I have top open or I think that it can wait to write about. I put it in my furl account under still to write about.
And sometimes when I don’t have anything to read. I take a look there.