Time Capsule

The best person to send you links matching your interests is a time traveling version of yourself: create a time capsule by choosing when the current tab should be re-opened; this will bookmark the current tab, and program to re-open it in the future, according to the choosen periodicity, be it an hour, a day, a month, a year, a decade!

Summary

• Install
• Context
• Development Setup
• License

Install

• Firefox
• Chrome

If you use a different browser that implements WebExtension, that shouldn't be hard to make it work for you too: make a request in the issues or on mastodon to let me know, and I will see if that's possible.

Context

This is a reboot of the awesome, but out-dated, Browse Periodically (repo):

Browse sites you want to check periodically (every hour, day, week, month and so on). You can also use for reminding pages, for example, by browsing every month.

I started working on it before Firefox was up to speed with WebExtension so had to let it sleep for a moment. Meanwhile, a team started working on SnoozeTabs, it's quite similar, but TimeCapsule offers a few more things:

• re-open tabs periodically (rather than just one time)
• more flexibility to set the periodicity
• more time-traveling jokes

Development Setup

git clone https://github.com/maxlath/time-capsule
cd time-capsule

• in Chrome

  • open chrome://extensions
  • tick the developer mode box
  • click load non packaged extension and open the project's extension folder where the manifest.json file is

• in Firefox: instructions

  • open about:debugging
  • Load Temporary Add-on and select the ./extension folder

  See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Debugging to debug Browser Action popups

License

AGPL-3.0