Start pages are still “a thing”.

https://jon.bo/posts/new-tab/

Call me old, but I can glom onto the notion of a start page more readily than I can an MOC, and there’s a lot of crossover between the two concepts.

There’s a whiff of this in my daily log/journal template, but having read this post, I realise there’s more I can do (without overdoing it).

in search of a new tab

A few months ago my friend Eli was sharing his screen and opened a new tab on his browser. Instead of the usual inspirational quote or clock extension, commonly-visited tabs, or my personal pet peeve - recent breaking news articles and photos from disaster zones - his new tab was a map of his internet and most important documents: I was enthralled: it was the most useful thing I’ve ever seen on a new tab page, completely personalized to his needs and his perspective on the internet.

up & to the right
@jslr I use TiddlyWiki as my start page, it is my bookmark manager and net-notebook. It has proven over the years to be a great asset, letting me keep and find things easier.
@jake Lots of love for Tiddlywiki! It's one of those apps I've always been curious about but never dove deeply enough into. Was thinking about using it for a family tree for a bit— something I could put some effort into and send off to members of the family that might want to access it, without them having to install anything. Might still do this at some point, when I've got a minute to dig in... :)

@jake would love to hear more about how you use it, though. For bookmarks I use Raindrop; my notes live mostly in #DraftsApp.

Do you have a bookmarklet or extension for capturing bookmarklets? And how do you deal with "collision detection" (if you save the same link again without realising)?

@jslr i was a nerd and wrote up a quick thing a few years ago: http://jacobhaddon.com/2018/12/22/tiddlywiki-home-page/

I started with it years ago, when I kept it on a thumb drive (128 MB drive!) as my notebook!
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