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Re:Firefox tab groups are here on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @01:09PM (#43835325)
one reason tab management is so important is because bookmark management is so bad.

ive tried to solve for this with a thumbnail view for bookmarks on the new tab page:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/yet-another-speed-d...

it uses open graph images so the previews are more useful on a wider range of pages than simple favicons like the native new tab page.

any suggestions or feedback welcome, ama!

Show HN: Yet Another Speed Dial – a better new tab page

Posted by conceptualspace on Thursday April 03, 2025 @12:13PM
from the show-hn dept.

I last post this back in 2021 when I started development -- nothing like google enforcing all extensions to migrate to manifest v3 to refactor the whole codebase for b̶e̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶e̶f̶f̶i̶c̶i̶e̶n̶c̶y̶,̶ ̶p̶r̶i̶v̶a̶c̶y̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶s̶e̶c̶u̶r̶i̶t̶y̶ no reason!All jokes aside, if you're looking for a fast, open source new tab page that gives you instant access to all your bookmarks in a visually...

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Re:Show HN: Minimal, customizable new tab for Chrome/Firefox on Monday November 25, 2024 @04:23PM (#42240359)
when i open a new tab its often to open a bookmark - so for me a speed dial is super useful. here's mine (open source): https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial
Re:Photoprism – open-source Google Photos Alternative on Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:12AM (#34726191)
exactly!!! yes they are. for thumbnails im using webP which achieves much better compression than the more standard png (like 10:1) which enables us to do a lot more with them. and when navigating fullsize photos, using some intelligent preloading so we never bog out :D

i'll try to get some initial commits pushed up soon. u can follow me here, the project is called montage (open to suggestions on name too lol):

https://github.com/conceptualspace

Re:Photoprism – open-source Google Photos Alternative on Thursday February 09, 2023 @09:51AM (#34724770)
i have one pet peeve with every photo organizer or gallery i've tried: they are slow.. especially for very large galleries. if you read the original google blog post about how they built photos, a lot of effort went into performance. so i took that as inspiration to start building an open source offline-first organizer that takes this performance to your desktop (and up a notch). its not on github yet, but seeing the enthusiasm here i thought i would ask what else would you want to see in it? my hn username is also my github username, for the curious :)
Re:My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information on Friday January 06, 2023 @07:47AM (#34274072)
to offer an opposing view: libraries are cool. i frequently reference and revisit links i have saved, and on a rainy day a quick browse of them often inspires a new project or advances some existing work. i don't know what i would gain by blowing that all away. naturally links that are infrequently used settle to the bottom of the list and die anyway.

i do manage my bookmarks visually, which i have found tremendously helpful since i first saw this functionality in opera years ago. its sort of like having album art.

so here is a shameless plug for my open source and cross browser implementation, yet another speed dial:

https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial

Re:My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information on Friday January 06, 2023 @07:38AM (#34274003)
to help manage this i created a "speed dial" extension and use it basically as a visual bookmark manager. the advantage to tabs in a list is that they are easy to reference visually, and like any bookmark can be sorted and arranged into folders. for example i have one for technical references, various research topics, etc that i plan to come back to. and its easy to pop one off the list to maintain them. check it out if youre curious, its open source!

https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial

Re:End the Streaming Struggle with Plex on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @07:04PM (#30926273)
if anyone streams plesk on a browser, i made an extension that adds 21:9 ultrawide support, a dynamic audio compressor (night mode), library shuffling, and links to trailers. its open source and cross browser too! enhance-o-tron for plex:

https://github.com/conceptualspace/enhance-o-tron-for-plex

Re:My essential Firefox fixes in 2022 on Sunday March 13, 2022 @04:57PM (#30665618)
me too! so i wrote this extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/yet-another-s...

its oepn source, and feedback always appreciated!

Re:Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page? on Thursday December 02, 2021 @08:31AM (#29415839)
You can check out mine, Yet Another Speed Dial, on GitHub! It's a web extension in vanilla JS:

https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial

Show HN: Yet Another Speed Dial – An open source new tab page

Posted by conceptualspace on Monday August 30, 2021 @01:12PM
from the show-hn dept.

Show HN: Yet Another Speed Dial - An open source new tab pageI made an open source, cross-browser new tab page inspired by the Speed Dial in Opera.It also works great as a bookmarks manager because it gives you visual thumbnails for bookmarks instead of just a list. When you bookmark a site, just choose the Speed Dial folder (or one of its subfolders) and you'll automatically get a screenshot,...

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Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:09AM (#28129784)
i made one and it supports mobile. it's also open source :)

https://github.com/conceptualspace/tablist

Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:08AM (#28129762)
that's the inspiration for my browser extension, Yet Another Speed Dial. it works as the new tab page but basically i use it as a visual bookmark manager. i find it way easier to scan my bookmarks as thumbnails to find what i want. it's open source and supports all the major browsers, check it out!

https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial

Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more? on Monday December 28, 2020 @08:15PM (#25565466)
i'm working on this as a browser extension. to get my feet wet i created Yet Another Speed Dial (https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial) which many people find useful, but the end goal is to apply the same kind of richness to all bookmarks and history
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:59PM (#25364864)
as the nazi minister of propaganda once said, "truth is the foundation of the press, and all we ask of it!"
Re:CSS in GitHub Readmes on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @03:07PM (#25350650)
ah i could have used this. my readme is a simulation of a github profile ;)

https://github.com/conceptualspace

Re:Moving from Macbook to Linux on Saturday November 21, 2020 @09:40AM (#25169956)
to elaborate on my experience with the others, generally they are slow or have poor ux for common tasks like search or rename, lack a decent content view (thumbnails), etc
Re:Moving from Macbook to Linux on Saturday November 21, 2020 @09:33AM (#25169924)
the comment was directed towards the default file managers, nautilus etc, not nnn. i love nnn! keep up the good work!
Re:Moving from Macbook to Linux on Friday November 20, 2020 @03:08PM (#25164386)
to me the most underrated thing i miss on Linux compared to mac is the file manager. I'm trying to get nnn setup efficiently but the out of the box options feel incredibly half baked in comparison to finder
Re:My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:13PM (#25144528)
that's always irked me about one of the common arguments against permanent DST -- "without DST kids would be going to school in the dark" (instead of coming home in the dark). i mean obviously the clock is the problem