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Feature Request: Web pages tabs saved as files, as a form of bookmarking

Open profucius opened this issue 1 year ago • 7 comments

Feature Requested

Idea: Tabs can be "saved" into a file within the vault, with a filename designated by the user. When that file is clicked within the filetree to open it within a pane/tab, instead, a Surfing tab is launched and the webpage is launched.

Think of this as similar to bookmarking, but as files, which can be organized, and even placed into a Canvas or other plugins features, which when clicked will open the webpage.

Checklist

  • [X] The feature would be useful to more users than just me.

profucius avatar Jan 03 '23 06:01 profucius

available in #122

Quorafind avatar Jan 05 '23 01:01 Quorafind

Thanks. Question, I just installed the most recent version 0.8.7. Is this feature included?

I am looking for how to use this feature but am not finding anything yet. To reiterate what I'm trying to do, I want to create a "file" in the left sidebar, which when clicked, opens a Surfing tab directly to a webpage.

Do I need to create an actual markdown file in my vault, with the web-link in the frontmatter?

Apologies if there is documentation for this and I missed it. Thank you.

profucius avatar Jan 05 '23 23:01 profucius

There is a command in Obsidian named 'Copy tabs as markdown' from surfing now, it will copy current tabs title and url as markdown link. And you can manage it yourself.

Quorafind avatar Jan 06 '23 00:01 Quorafind

Ok I will try that.

I think perhaps there was a misunderstanding about my original post. I was requesting a feature that seems different from what you've described above.

I believe the idea I wrote in my original post would be valuable. It would allow users to create "file bookmarks" which are like browser bookmarks but are instead files, in the folder structure. I imagine being able to create a folder of files which are technically bookmarks, which when clicked will open a Surfing tab to the URL.

If that is not technically possible, then perhaps you could add a command which detects a specific frontmatter value, which contains a web URL, and automatically opens it in another tab. This could serve close-enough to the idea that files can also be bookmarks. For example:

'--- surfingurl: http://website '---

Anyway I hope that I am explaining this well enough. Do you think that this would be possible?

profucius avatar Jan 06 '23 01:01 profucius

Oh, do you mean something like this : image

Quorafind avatar Jan 06 '23 01:01 Quorafind

Oh yes that looks similar to the idea! I wonder, do you think that is possible?

The feature could be as simple as just clicking one of them, and a webpage opens in a designated pane (like a Note.md file would). But I can see more possibilities down the road, like clicking on one opens both a Note and a Webpage side-by-side in tabs/panes, for taking notes while researching. Or, click a file, and it opens in a hover popup window (the native one introduced to Obsidian recently).

Anyway this is all just brainstorming for the future. But a first idea implementation of clicking a file and a webpage opens is already game changer in my opinion. People tend to think hierarchically with files as well as bookmarks, so it fits.

profucius avatar Jan 06 '23 04:01 profucius

+1

obezzad avatar Apr 07 '24 05:04 obezzad