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Re:Beam has raised $9.5M to reinvent the browser by GekkePrutser on Thursday February 04, 2021 @06:11AM (#26024419)
“You’re watching a video, you’ve got an idea, and then you’ve got to do the old dance,” he said. “I’ve got an idea and then I need to include it in my notes app. Then you navigate to it, you put it there, and then you come back to your content. You can do this two or three times a day. But if you do this 20 times, it’s completely breaking your mental flow.”

Hmm, I don't know if this is worth making a whole new browser. I use bookmarks for this, and if I'm really interested in posterity I use the OneNote browser plugin to add it to my notes. I know this experience could be a bit more integrated but it feels pretty smooth already, not like something that slows me down.

One thing I'm much more interested in in a new browser is breaking the Chromium monopoly. I hope he will take Gecko for his engine so it might get some more traction.

Re:Beam has raised $9.5M to reinvent the browser by mcjkrw on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:16AM (#26033626)
Perhaps the real problem is navigating between the apps. I use i3 and I have no problem switching between 2 workspaces in a fraction of a second. Most modern desktop environments try to slow it down by adding some fancy animation or some needless UI component.
Re:Beam has raised $9.5M to reinvent the browser by iFreilicht on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:30AM (#26033983)
Meh, in such cases I’d just put the browser and note-app side-by-side, so switching is quick even with traditional DEs. You can even do this on an iPad and some bigger phones. Why the hell is this guy getting 9.5m for solving a problem that has already been solved?