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Distinguish different branches/pages under a common domain #4

Open dajare opened 4 years ago

dajare commented 4 years ago

I've just "discovered" NelliTab as I begin to use Edge (!) on MacOS (!) (and I'm normally an Ubuntu guy!).

Most of the similar tools I've used distinguish different "branches" of a website in your history, e.g.:

It seems to me that NelliTab's listing of "Top Sites" does not distinguish the most visited pages in this way, but rather sees only www.bbc.co.uk and does not differentiate pages from that site, and so too for my example.com example(!), above.

I suppose this is an enhancement request (it is not a "bug"!) that NelliTab offer the same differentiation, so that the "Top Sites" section would include these different "branches", each in their own right.

Perhaps this could be implemented as a new "section", "Top Pages", which would then be a different kind of listing from "Top Sites"?

Thank you for this great tool. Although I have only been using it a short time, I am already enjoying it! (I've left a review on the Edge extension store, FWIW.)

I'm on MacOS 10.14.6, using NelliTab 2020.5 beta (883) with MS Edge 83.0.478.58 (not that this probably helps with this "issue"!).

ideaweb commented 4 years ago

Currently NelliTab uses a standard function to retrieve the top sites (https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/topSites). The browser returns a list which is shown unchanged in NelliTab. I do not know the algorithm behind it. There is only a limitation that the function may return only ~10 records and NelliTab add some entries from history if more rows are configured in options.

In short, top sites in general seems to be not quite good. I already planed to improve it and wrote a "better" own function, but will it better than the list coded by Chromium team? But how to detect "branches"? For BBC it seems the 2 second dir, sites like Google maybe the first like google.com/mail, but not always... seems to be unpossible to know it for each site.

The same problem with "branches" exists in NelliTab with icons. Currenlty www.bbc.co.uk/news/world and www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk are in NelliTab //bbc.co.uk/news/. If you want to upload a custom icon, "Host" means //bbc.co.uk, but the button for "URL" not the entire url, only first dir like //bbc.co.uk/news/, that if the urls changes the custom icon is kept and shown e.g. for other history items. But causes that it is not possible to upload own icons for www.bbc.co.uk/news/world and www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk, both icons are always stored as //bbc.co.uk/news/.

Anyway i let this issue open for future improvements, but not easy, becuase i have currently not so much free time.

BenjaminRosenzweig commented 3 years ago

I see this as like the only problem in Nellitab so far as i am using it. I think that Nellitab is a great concept for the new tab page and the management of bookmarks. Now that the confusion of different URL's on the same domain all get the same screenshot an/or icon can perhaps be solved if there is a single collect/safe of a current screenshot/icon on a first visit or opening of a folder of bookmarks. This also helps in recognising the bookmark visually at a later time. As an addition there could be a right mouse click option to manually renew a screenshot or site icon plus some other site specific options like manually editing a sites variables. The same could be done by a right click option on a bookmark folder where as a screenshot would be made of the screenshots of the bookmarks within that bookmark folder which again helps to visually recognise sites and bookmarks. The screenshots change during a site visit resulting in getting a screenshot on a bookmark of any page which is also confusing and makes sense only on the bookmarks of the most visited sites. Static visual information is easier to remember i think especially with a lot of bookmarks.