It's time to say goodbye to tabs!
👴🏻 BookLinks Technologies Internet Work has the privilege of being the first browser to add tabs to its user interface, in 19964, 30 years ago! Tabs were a workaround at the time, and they’re still one today. As the browser gradually became more and more important, people needed a way to organize the pages they had to keep open.
🤖 On a regular computer you would have saved them in a folder, kept them open in their respective app, but the browser is the overarching app, the one app to access all of those other web based content, documents and programs.
🗑️ It’s time to trash tabs and to create a real environment around the browser. There’s no reason to access the web from one single place. The web is pervasive, everywhere, it shouldn't be trapped behind the a single software or gate keeped through apps.
✂️ You should be able to invoke the web from anywhere, and take the relevant information with you. Today’s Kosmik update in a step in that direction, allowing you to organize your links, bookmarks, services and any other web content along with files, notes, drawings in a unified canvas that you can share with a click.
🌿 Here’s how we use this at Kosmik for example:
1️⃣ Create a canvas, paste the links from all the relevant services (Notion, Figma, Gitlab),
2️⃣ Add context (diagrams, notes, post-it, highlights)
3️⃣ Share.
This makes collaboration much easier, replaces a ton of messages, works super well asynchronously and gives us a centralized source of truth that we can reference easily.
Trash the tabs! Embrace the canvas 🌌
