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I feel like what I want is really a 'view' rather than bookmarks.

Create/label a collection of tabs as a view. When you can name, 'work', 'bills', 'house', hobbyX, hobbyY, hobbyZ.

Open a view and it'll open all the bookmarks associated with that view. Edit views by simply dragging and dropping tabs into them.

Even better would be to include files and documents as well.

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Nah, you are thinking like an engineer. What my wife wants is “papers scattered around the desk” in a digital form.

I have been waiting for the same since PDF got invented. I thought it was going to be an obvious consequence, but I guess it hasn't.

I was hoping this would happen when tablets were introduced. But apparently, for some reason, the idea of infinite, zoomable canvas for interactive objects and annotable documents is alien to most software developers. All the products I've ever seen either a) allow viewing and/or annotating single documents, and/or b) use a very limited canvas with a zoom limit, and/or c) don't allow to put documents in it in other ways than rendered images.

http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/pubs/Henley2018bDissertation.pd... FWIW, for those interested, there's some discussion of the "Code Bubbles" environment which allows arranging working sets on a canvas. (IDK if this falls under "limited canvas" or whatever).

I think a big part of why this hasn't caught on is that the benefits of a layout which maps to a mental model are _generally_ less than the cost of arranging things.

Sounds sort of like tab groups, a function that was removed from firefox. It can be added as an extension.

It was an extension until Quantum. Then there was a vacuum for some time. The closest I can find today is this one:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...

This gets a lot closer to what was removed from Firefox:

https://projectdelphai.github.io/panorama-tab-groups/

I came to share basically the same idea. I know there are extensions but I want some kind of workspace/session support built in so the browser can do stuff like cache tabs in a workspace so I can load a workspace and resume instantly. Switching workspaces should be quick with maybe a UI like ctrl p in sublime text or VsCode or even like the gnome dash. I would pay for a license to use a browser that focuses on being a productivity tool with features like this.

Check out https://workona.com/. Been using it for work recently and really enjoying it.

Been really enjoying workona as well. Have found myself recommending to folks on my team. I organize my tabs into their “workspaces” which map to the strategic and tactical projects I’m juggling. Helps me switch btwn contexts

I actually changed to Chrome only for this. I have been looking for months for something like Workona for Firefox but to no avail.

I used Firefox for years and I want to continue using it, but for my way of work (multiple tabs open in several spaces and changing computers often) Workona is just great, nothing comes close.

You can do that by creating a folder with all the bookmarks you want, then right click on that folder and select “Open all bookmarks”.

Except there's no way to sync the state back. Say you open another tab in that window. If you bookmark that window again, you end up with dupes. There's no coupling between a window and the bookmarks folder that spawned it.

This sounds a bit like workona, which is a chrome extension I use. I believe tabs are limited to one category per tab.

Been desperately searching for something similar for Firefox, but no luck so far.

This sounds a little like mind mapping, which definitely would be good for sorting and maintaining these things.

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