Solved Sync Workspaces
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I thought everything syncing across devices was like the entire selling point... wtf.
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Yes, but the sync of workspaces should be a property of each individual workspace.
Each workspace should have a property of being either local or synced.
We might need additional terminology to discuss this - i.e. local (only on a given device), synced (accessible via cloud), mirrored (synced as actual workspace across browsers).
Additional local parameter of each workspace should be displayed / hidden, so that we can hide some
syncedmirrored workspaces on some devices (i.e mobile).This is the minimum meaningful requirement in my opinion to make the sync work for majority of power users.
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This is a MUST HAVE for me. Until then I'll have to keep using Workona to manage lots of tabs across multiple machines.
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@RadekPilich I agree, great idea to add
mirrored
to the list! Step 1: sync everything. Step 2: configure per workspace sync based on flaglocal | synced | mirrored
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+1 for @RadekPilich 's suggestion.
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VOTE for Sync Workspaces
I'm using 3 devices, so it would be really usefull. -
Definitely workspace sync. Workspaces should basically be a unique identifier bookmark folder, and every workspace a subfolder. I manually did this to get my workspaces synced and rebuilt.
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I agree, this is definitely a must have now that we use workspaces in our everyday browsing.
Workspaces allowed me to organize dozens of tabs on my main system.
And now, I need to sync them among laptops, other systems, ...
Please provide us with this killer featureThank you so much in advance
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Hi everybody,
I have 5 devices (desktops and notebooks). I installed Vivaldi on a first desktop, and configured my workspaces and all my 6 email accounts that I frequently use and I synchronized everything. When I installed Vivaldi on the second desktop, logged into my account and downloaded the synchronized settings, to my surprise both the workspaces and the settings, the email accounts did not appear, I had to configure everything manually, and the same happened on the other devices. I think these synchronizations would be very desirable in future Vivaldi updates. -
I've noticed that Safari allows users to group and sync tabs across different devices. While it's easy to sync workspaces, I was anticipating a similar function to Firefox's tab containers, which allow for detached work across multiple tabs.
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Absolutely.
This is a 'no brainer'.
I can't imagine anyone, including the devs, who use multiple devices and workspaces wouldn't want the ability to synchronise workspaces across devices.
The added functionality that's been suggested of being able to have local, single device, workspaces also sounds like a great feature.
I guess that the devs are already working on this, as like I say, to my mind it just feels too obvious for them not to be. If they aren't, then they need to start practising what they preach: using workspaces on multiple devices; I'm sure that synchronised workspaces would then follow in pretty short order!!!
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@nutter Not a no-brainer. Actually, an extra-brainer. How to synchronize workspaces without crippling or overwhelming the sync servers with the amount of data required to capture, preserve, and re-send all of the data in a workspace.
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@Ayespy Well, I was actually referring to the introduction of this feature being so obviously needed.
But, as a former developer myself, I can't see something like this 'crippling or overwhelming the sync servers' - seem like a few flags and a small UUID or two as pointers would suffice? The pages themselves could be handled using the existing set-up, so it doesn't seem like much of an overhead compared to what they're already doing, when you consider that they're already handling pages, bookmarks, passwords, settings, history, notes and more...
I've not really read up on how they're handling sync though, so I could be wrong.
Either way, I'd love to see this implemented as soon as practically possible, as would the others who are finding this thread...
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@nutter As nearly as I can tell, most who desire "sync" between devices want the page content from one instance to another to be the same. This requires acres of server space. If all that was wanted was a syncing of URLs, people would not complain bitterly that opening a hibernated page causes it to reload.
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@Ayespy there's not a single request in this thread for what you're describing, perhaps you're responding to the wrong one?
I, and I suspect many others using Vivaldi, work in tech professionally. What has been described here is very much a solvable problem.
But again, working in tech, I fully appreciate the challenge of competing priorities and limited resources.
So to the engineers and product managers that are hopefully listening...
- Syncing workspaces would be a killer feature!
- I suspect I'm like many others using Vivaldi in that I have multiple machines that I need to stay synchronized. Without synchronization this feature isn't useable for me. (I'm paying $7/mo for Workona for managing and synching tabs numbering in the triple digits, I've already put my money where my mouth is.)
- My sincere thanks to everyone that makes Vivaldi possible, it's a shining beacon of what the internet used to be and still could in an otherwise expansive darkness.
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@loikawhaticando Workspaces have tabs/pages. Users often want those tabs/pages to have the same content across devices.
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@Ayespy This is an assumption, not supported by posts I have seen.
All I want is Workspace names & URL synced.
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@Milliways It's not actually an assumption. It's based on having read every comment posted in English in this forum in the last eight and a half years.
Either way, Sync continues to evolve. More and more items are added to it all the time. At some point, it will be rather comprehensive. 3 or 4 years ago, it synced less than a third of what it does now. This is a feature request to sync workspaces. Have you upvoted it?
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@Ayespy you appear confused, perhaps you're in the wrong forum entirely? The rest of us are here to discuss Vivaldi, it's a web browser, arguably the best one currently in existence.
I encourage you to read this thread requesting synching of workspaces. You'll find there's not a single post requesting content synching. Baselessly claiming otherwise does not change that fact.
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@loikawhaticando I understand what you want.
Your snark is also noted, if not well-received.
The kind of thing you are asking for is the kind of thing sync may well bring at some point.
You will have to forgive me if I initially imagined that when the topic addressed syncing workspaces, I reacted as though it meant the same thing most users mean whey they think of syncing (a carbon copy of everything - structure, settings, prefs, data and content at both ends of the sync transaction). Terms like mirroring and work "sessions" are being used. Surprise was also expressed that mail accounts were not (of course) synced.
Many users also think that their entire browser and everything in it is backed up to a Vivaldi "cloud," because they are "signed in to Vivaldi." They want to know how to recover that backup after their laptop was run over by a truck. Unrealistic expectations (unspoken) are the rule, not the exception.But as mentioned, we have the voting system and everyone's upvotes are noted.