Still the greatest feature in Firefox. Opening web sites in the sidebar. Especially when the web site scales down to fit the narrow space.
Ever since I took delivery of my Nock Hightower a few weeks ago, my notebook has been with me every where I go. Even when I'm at home it sits on my desk just behind my keyboard, always within reach.
Yesterday and today I took advantage of some downtime and sketchnoted a few blog posts I was reading in the morning.
Creating Great Content
Taken from The Next Web - "How to create consistently great content"
Writing for Your Clients
Taken from Curtis McHale - "Are you writing for your ideal client?"
Strategic IT Agility
Taken from Thoughtworks - "Reworking IT for Digital Success"
Each of these posts had value to them. Sure, I liked them on Instapaper after reading them which in turn added them to my Pinboard, but the chances of me revisiting these bookmarks in the next few days is slim. However, with the sketchnotes in my notebook, they are more accessible for review. Going to stick with this over the next few weeks.
Is Cleveland Cursed?
147 seasons without a title win. That's a long time. It could end this year though if the Cleveland Cavaliers win the NBA finals.
In-laws settled in for their stay. Now, back to work.
In-laws have arrived. Raise the DEFCON level!
Goodbye Yahoo Pipes.
Good to see tmux have left the growing mess that is SourceForge.
Fixie Friday - Father Tu's Affinity
Three point guide to selling from NB. Can it be that simple?
My Favourite Feature in Firefox
I think it's fair to say that I've finally settled on a browser that I enjoy using. For well over a year now, Firefox has been my browser of choice. Over the years I've used Internet Explorer (long story), Safari, Chrome and even Opera for a while. In between those I've used Firefox as well. Ditching all Google tools meant that I wanted something that had good development tools, an extensive library of add ons and a few other features that I just like as an individual. Firefox fitted the bill and I've been using it for two years straight now.
Firefox has added a number of great features of the years. Cross-platform support, continually improving security and even pinned tabs. They're all great features, but the single best feature I love about Firefox is this.
Opening tabs in the sidebar.
Expecting something else? Okay, it's not the ground breaking feature that everyone might rave about, but it's a feature that I like the most and here's why.
Ever since I seen split views in Vim, iTerm 2 and Tmux, I've seen the benefits of having multiple views open at once. Being able to switch at a glance from one file to another is a major productivity win. You can work on the part of the application that matters while having other parts of the application that you need to know in other views. You can even have your command line open in one view and your code in the other.
In Firefox a similar view can be achieved using Firefox's open in sidebar property in your bookmarks. What happens is that a second browser window will open to the left of your main window.
I spend most of my day on the web. Feedbin, Trello, Todoist and GitHub are where I spend most of my time. Siwtching between these tabs can be a pain if you require two of them open at once. Using the sidebar in Firefox though means that I can have one site open in the sidebar for taking notes or collecting information as well as allowing me to still focus on the immediate task at hand in my browser.
An understated feature of Firefox, but one that makes a productive difference to my day.