Workona is a blueprint for effective Workspaces in Vivaldi

[jrsilvey]

Have any of the devs involved in workspaces seen a Chrome extension called Workona ?

Workona is SAAS that lets you create Workspaces that save tabs for projects, suspend tabs, keep track of tasks & notes. You can develop these Workspaces into Workflows, and even use the Workspaces to create Templates for future Workspaces shared with other users grouped in teams.

It allows the New Tab to be used to keep track of your Spaces and all of your links.

I found this looking for a way to share links from Chrome to Slack. It allows you to do that.

After I started playing with it and gave it control of my New Page tab I was absolutely blown away because this is one brilliant way we could integrate Workspaces more directly into Vivaldi's browser.

Im not sure where to post this to get the attention of the devs or staff in charge of Workspaces but I strongly believe they should take a look at this services because it provide an amazing blueprint that Vivaldi could emulate to implement a much more tightly integrated version of Vivaldi Workspaces!

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[Catweazle]

@jrsilvey, certainly a great functionality, but the problem, it can't be integrated so easy in Vivaldi, due it is a paid proprietary soft, which for sure depends also an other third party services.
You may be able to expand some more functionality in Vivaldi Workspaces, but I don't think you will be able to have all this functionality in this app.
That is, the only thing is to use this extension, if you want these functions, being willing to pay for it, or well, using some alternatives instead which can be forked

[mikeyb2001]

@Catweazle I think he said blueprint. He didn't say copy it verbatim or put the extension itself Built-in he just wants similar functionality

[barbudo2005]

Tab handling is the core of a browser, so the Vivaldi team should devote all its effort to improve it by "taking ideas" from other browsers or extensions.

[jrsilvey]

@mikeyb2001 That is exactly what I intended, thank you.

[mikeyb2001]

@jrsilvey no problem

[jrsilvey]

@barbudo2005

Vivaldi handles browser tabs better than any other browser, hands down, no question. I recall when Tab Stacks first came out in Vivaldi it was just a month later that the Edge Browser (pre-Chromium) adopted them.

All other browsers on the market imitate current Vivaldi features, some better than others.

The Dev Team is doing a great job with their current Workspace implementation. There is room for improvement but the functionality is solid and has advanced the development of the browser as a whole.

However, I feel that implementing Workspaces on the New Tab page would greatly benefit the overall design and use of the browser as a whole.

This would be in addition to, not in place of, the current Workspace feature built into the tab bar.

It could function similar to the Window panel which shows Open Tabs on the current device.

Now, how I envision it, we could have a Workspaces Panel. When you press it the New Tab page opens up (like how opening the Mail panel opens up the Mail page too). Open Tabs could be included as an additional Speed Dial.

This would provide the drag and drop functionality that is what I absolutely LOVE about Speed Dials. (I just wish it would grab the site Favicon, which is what keeps me from using Speed Dials).

I think this would allow users to better visualize the Workspace feature and make it easier to create and organize Workspaces.

If we were to go even further, (although this is unrelated to the Workspaces feature) we could make the Feeds panel operate in a similar way, opening up groups of RSS feeds that we create ourselves (similar to Feedly), but then the Feeds appear on the New Tab page.

Opera's in-browser feeds functionality is the -only- feature that is comparable to anything Vivaldi has.

In closing I think the New Tab page is under-utilized, and I would love to integrate features I use directly into the New Tab page (like Notes, History Calendar, etc but as a page instead of a panel). Workspaces are GREAT but allowing for customization like this would complement the current Workspace features very much that would work in addition to, not replace, the current implementation.

[ybjrepnfr]

@barbudo2005 said in Workona is a blueprint for effective Workspaces in Vivaldi:

Tab handling is the core of a browser, so ... Vivaldi ... should ... "taking ideas" from other ... extensions

...or indeed certain specific excellent add-ons...

@jrsilvey said in Workona is a blueprint for effective Workspaces in Vivaldi:

Vivaldi handles browser tabs better than any other browser

• natively, yes.
• when certain other browsers have certain add-ons installed, absolutely not. then, vivaldi's tab management is inferior [treestyletab & especially sidebery].

[jrsilvey]

@ybjrepnfr

In my view these are matters of preference. I've tried Sidebery on Firefox and think it's a solid extension.

For me, personally, the best bookmark functionality is Vivaldi's native system.

CTRL+D, Input Bookmark Nickname, the end.

Vivaldi's Bookmarked are easier to create and open using just the keyboard. I really don't need anything other than that.

However, Workona helped me understand Workspaces not so much as a way to organize tabs, but as a way to structure projects. The pages in each Workspace can be viewed as pieces of a puzzle that, when put together, allow projects to be completed. Workona's Workspace templates can be used to create specific workflows that can be easily shared between teams.

On it's own, I think Workona is interesting and potentially useful to some people.

But I came away with a completely different perspective on how Workspaces could work here on Vivaldi based on Workona's model.