refresh browser study

https://refresh.study/ what mercury os was based off ^1fFsvpfBj

• biggest problems in current browser are ^0z4FIwG5P
  • tab management:: Browsers should help in sorting open tabs and making sense of past browsing sessions.
    • they allow for management via Spaces which allow you to categorize
      • problem you run into is decision paralysis and gardening your information garden, requires constant upkeep for categories — associative is better like roam
        • how do this process associative?
      • good thing is ability to easily group tabs together
  • Saving and recalling:: saving information + files for later should be more intuitive
    • timeline view of history is super interesting because allows you to see everything that was open at a particular time
    • this method is also very associative — associated some idea or tab with a specific time and subject
    • tags are also associative but problem is maintaining them. Can you do Named Entity Recognition to make this easier? could at least do dates proper nouns… maybe link to personal tags like via roam
  • context sensitivity:: browsers should be more proactive in suggesting useful actions based on type of website
    • questions what are the diff types of websites that exist? ^IqDPuz4WB
      • Article/Media vs. Reference vs. interacive vs. business vs. consumption vs. creation/production vs. social vs events
    • hijacks creators content with ”focus mode” which is like Pocket in changing styling of different types of content to fit individual
      • comes back to fundamental question of how much power individual can assert vs. what the creator should be able to assert
        • more and more power is going over to individual as described in The Revolt of the Public, especially so in digital environments