Quick session switcher with auto-saves

[Mark Hicken]

Nice work on the awesome Chrome Extension! I'm curious what people think about a "quick select" for your sessions. The workflow seems a bit wonky to me. 

If you could specify session names like this...

"Work"

"Personal"

...and then have a quick select drop-down on the Session Buddy icon it would make the workflow WAY better. Then you could auto save the last 3 updates to your currently active session. 

I'd love it if this got implemented soon because it's something I really need. If you don't end up doing it, I probably will but I'd rather contribute than compete. :)

[Session Buddy Support]

Hey Mark, thanks for the suggestion. 

If I'm understanding you correctly, you're basically suggesting a popup for the browser action that lists a subset of saved sessions (via favorites, last n viewed/updated, or whatever). Is that correct?

I get the value of that, but not sure how it's connected to "auto saving the last 3 updates to your currently active session" or what that even means. Can you elaborate?

Thanks,

Hans

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[Mark Hicken]

I was thinking a pop-down from the extension icon in the tool bar that might look something like this...

https://jsfiddle.net/nk8Ly25L/2/

[Session Buddy Support]

Thanks for the clarification, Mark.

This splits into two features, both nice ideas, that are identified but still being spec'd.

1. Favorites/shortcuts. A set of UX enhancements facilitating access to frequently-used saved sessions. This could certainly include a popup option for the extension icon as you suggest.

2. Linked sessions. An option to open a saved session in a linked mode that automatically applies navigation and other changes in tab state back to the saved session. This one has some challenges related to managing expected behavior for establishing and communicating the boundaries of a linked vs non-linked session and reconciling (or perhaps preventing) direct edits to a saved session while open in a linked mode.

Hans

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[Brendan Barnwell]

On Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 10:21:53 AM UTC-7, Session Buddy Support wrote:

Thanks for the clarification, Mark.

This splits into two features, both nice ideas, that are identified but still being spec'd.

1. Favorites/shortcuts. A set of UX enhancements facilitating access to frequently-used saved sessions. This could certainly include a popup option for the extension icon as you suggest.

2. Linked sessions. An option to open a saved session in a linked mode that automatically applies navigation and other changes in tab state back to the saved session. This one has some challenges related to managing expected behavior for establishing and communicating the boundaries of a linked vs non-linked session and reconciling (or perhaps preventing) direct edits to a saved session while open in a linked mode.

I recently was wishing for something like #2 as well.  Basically what I'd like to be able to do is to use saved sessions sort of like "tab groups".  Potentially the way this would work is I'd have various tasks, and each task would have a single-window session associated with it.  Then whatever I do in that window (navigating, opening/closing tabs, etc.) would automatically be saved to that session.  This would let me keep related tabs together without having to worry about manually re-saving it.

I think the challenges you refer to would be somewhat mitigated if these linked (or "autosave") sessions were linked to windows.  That would make the boundaries clear: everything in this window goes with this session.

[Mark Hicken]

For #2 that's exactly what I had in mind. Thank you for clarifying.

[maxdu...@gmail.com]

I would like #2 as well. 
Was there any progress on this?? 

Thanks, 

MD