Solved Possibility to keep tabs for later / Set Aside Tabs / Reading List

[Ornorm]

Hello,
one of the main usage I have in Vivaldi is to make a lot of searches to collect different references (studies, scientific reports, etc.)
Therefore, I quickly have dozens of tabs open that I want to keep for later researches.
I already use the great Tab stacking feature or the bookmarks in order to circumscribe the number of tabs I have to keep for later but I would like to have something more user friendly to be able to keep my "sleeping" tabs for later and that would not pollute the browser when I want to use it for usual surfing.
One possibility might be (see picture below) to :

• have a new button on the side panel that would, when clicked, open a section where all the tabs that could be set aside can be found (panel with the 5 tab windows on the picture)
• be able to "set aside" any tab in their context menu
• close the tabs that are kept into that new side panel when necessary
• have a search option into it
  Edit : features added from @Hallker's post
• Remind me later (using just simple time of the day or specific time and/or maybe even a specific machine) this way I can easily mark tabs I wanna come back to later on at home
• Send to specific machine, which would happen either right away or when that machine comes online
• Being able to create tab stacks that automatically popup when I reach a certain website (but I guess that is too similar to saving a session)

Is this a feature that could be taken into account for future developments?
Thanks in advance for your reactions.
Enjoy your weekend!

(mod edit: title)

[pafflick]

This feature has been added with the Vivaldi 5.1 update:

Go to Settings > Address Bar > Reading List and check:

Show Reading List Button

Find out more about this new feature here.

Side note: the feature request includes a couple of things that were implemented differently or weren't added yet, but as per our "one feature request per thread" policy, I'm marking this one as done, and all follow-up requests should be added separately, to keep things more transparent.

[Knuthf]

You have this as "sessions" - see File - Open Session - "Save as session".
You save all your searches as a session - the lot, and then kill it all and return to whatever you did earlier.
The "Search in session" is not a new request, but: If you have been to a page, it is in your history and will crop up here. But it comes long with search and use of bookmarks and sessions - why not treat a session as a special "group" of bookmark, that may be related - say as you, to one specific search. Opera had the ability to view sessions, and open individual windows as long time ago. Why not develop this? I frequently search and keep the result as open tabs, why not store the marked tabs as a session "Search for thisandthat" - and allow my to just open the fourth tab.. and then DELETE them all, they are relevant in the context of the search only.

[Pesala]

@ornorm Take a look at the request for Tabs Outliner, which is similar.

[Ornorm]

@knuthf Thank you very much for your suggestion and I'm quite embarrassed about the fact I didn't know this incredible feature I just tested...
Nevertheless, I think the feature request might be worth it in order to have a smoother user experience. What do you think?

[luetage]

@ornorm That's really exactly what a session does – keep tabs for later. Now it can be argued that the current session functionality could be streamlined/improved, but I don't think we need a redundant second system that does the same.

[Pesala]

The feature request for a Sessions Panel currently has 76 votes. There are some other requests to improve sessions too. I think with these improvements saving and organising sessions will become smooth and easy to use.

You could always search for an extension.

[Ornorm]

@pesala Thank you very much for the link Pesala. I didn't know about sessions before I read Knuthf comment so I didn't search the forum for anything related to the word "session".
I think my post is then a duplicate.
Should I just remove it? or is there a way to link it to Rotfl's feature request?

[Ornorm]

@luetage You're really right. My intention wasn't to have something developed that would be a kind of duplicate of something already existing but just to have an enhanced user experience.

[Ornorm]

@pesala Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, the link doesn't work and I can't find it manually in the webstore. Did the extension disappear?

[Ayespy]

@ornorm There is more than one session extension in the Chrome WebStore. The one I have seen referred to most frequently on these forums is Session Buddy.

[Ornorm]

@ayespy said in Possibility to keep tabs for later:

Session Buddy

Quite nice! I could maybe install it awaiting to have the same kind of feature natively developed in Vivaldi

[luetage]

@ornorm You can never be sure, maybe it was just renamed. The search on webstore isn't very good.

[brianerc]

I think the best thing is to have a system that allows you to save links to read later, grouping them by tags to search for them, personally I would like to have a "tab", as SpeedDial has it, where we can add, search and navigate between the saved items. Similar to what GetPocket offers, but native to Vivaldi

[luetage]

@brianerc Make a bookmarks folder called "Reading List" (or whatever you like to call it) and set it to use as speed dial. As soon as you do this the folder will appear as selectable speed dial tab. Since it's bookmarks you can, search/add/delete items.

[stilgarwolf]

But what would differentiate a "Read it later" feature from current bookmarks system or saved sessions?

I think "Read it later" could be a bookmark system with autodelete: after reading, a stored page should be deleted automatically when closed (with option to ask user before deleting, maybe a specific autodelete option: yes/no/ask).

It could be just a special folder within current bookmark system.

[opera6rules]

You can also simply mark multiple tabs and pin them, or move them to their own window first and pin them there. (or just keep 'em opened in the new, separate window if you do not want to close the browser before a deep dive anyway)

[brianerc]

Bookmarks and reading then respond to different needs, so they should be separate functions. For example, Gmail, Google, Frequent journals, etc. are content that we mark as a bookmark, to which one wishes to have direct access because it enters frequently. However, what is marked to "read later" is because you do not want to have the same vision, nor do you like to combine the contents because they respond to different tasks. I currently use GetPocket and tag the contents, when I read them I delete them or simply file them on another label if they are going to serve me for the future.
In addition, the fact of being able to show them in SpeedDial in a different way than we have the shortcuts (for example, link lists simply showing their titles, with tabs for the tags could be a great addition). But be careful, I understand what you are saying, that in the heart of the function, it shares contact points with the bookmarks, that is, from a programming point of view, Vivaldi could simply create a folder in the bookmarks exclusively used for this function. , where the subfolders are the tags, and manage them transparently to the user. But for the end user, I think that the functions are perceived differently and respond to different times as well, it is not expected to interact in the same way.

Regards!

[Hallker]

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[Ornorm]

Hello Hallker and welcome to Vivaldi!

You're right :
@Hallker said in Being able to mark some tabs for later reading:

Also I am aware that this has been mentioned here at least in two duplicate topics.

If you're interested, you could upvote the following request and add the specific (and interesting - I like specific time schedule/machine) features you describe here :
Keep tabs for later.

This, in order to make the requests grouped to give their more chance to be taken into account one day...

[LonM]

@Ornorm @Hallker I merged the related requests so that all the discussion is in one thread.