Tab-Session-Manager VS SingleFile

I also checked using two devices that it doesn't actually sync anything via Firefox Accounts.

By the way, Tab Session Manager [1] (another contender) can sync via Google Drive across different browsers (Firefox/Chrome).

[1] https://github.com/sienori/Tab-Session-Manager

Tab Session Manager. It’s had my back many a time. Can’t recommend enough. https://tab-session-manager.sienori.com

Tab Session Manager

Not sure if it does all of the same things since it has been a while since I made the switch - https://github.com/sienori/Tab-Session-Manager

Tab session manager by sienori. I have a weird bug where it duplicates tabs sometimes when I restore a session, so look out for that. It kind of helps to force me to keep the tab count down though lol https://tab-session-manager.sienori.com/

I use https://github.com/sienori/Tab-Session-Manager

I use the Tab Session Manager chrome extension to save tabs. The extension has the ability to export all your saved things as a JSON file. It also has the ability to import additional saved things via JSON as well.

Tab Session Manager has a setting that would probably work, though I haven't tried it. https://tab-session-manager.sienori.com/

7859.

Firefox seems to have problems around 8000 (or maybe it's just me?), so don't go there :).

If you do, and Firefox crashes at startup, you might need to delete (or better: rename) some files under .mozilla/firefox//:

.mozilla/firefox//sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4

.mozilla/firefox//sessionstore-backups/recovery.baklz4

.mozilla/firefox//sessionstore.jsonlz4

You'll obviously lose the tabs opened since the last start.

You can have a backup with Tab Session Manager (for Chrome too):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-m...

https://github.com/sienori/Tab-Session-Manager/releases

My go to solution for bookmarking is https://github.com/sienori/Tab-Session-Manager

(Available for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-m... and Chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-session-manage...)

It understands whether a bookmark should be opened as a pinned tab, and the tree structure of tabs saved together as a window if you use tree style tabs (in Firefox). It also saves the history of the tab, so going back on history works

It can even open the tab session window in a tab instead of the small tooltip, by clicking on the expand button in the corner. For me this is a killer feature

The only issue is that it is oriented towards saving whole windows (or even whole sessions) rather than a single tab. There is UI for saving just a tab at once but it's a bit hidden. But for your intended use cases, its workflow is perfect

> i want to be able to quickly load common favorite news sites & blogs.

> or load a window with all my productivity SaaS sites.

Saving a whole window at once is much better for this

> or pick up where i left off on a research rabbit hole.

Saving whole windows at time is much better for restoring your working memory, specially if you use tree style tabs.

Anyway the author has a patreon https://www.patreon.com/sienori (no affiliation)

That's interesting. I have been saving articles as PDF files, which is browser-independent, but useful just for search and reference, a nuisance to quote/copy-and-paste.

If I search only the computer, I don't get results from EBay and Amazon at the top. The idea of keeping the knowledge base separate from the primary notes is a good idea. In my case, that knowledge base is the file system, and the primary notes are whatever I choose.

When I was using Evernote, the inbox was the knowledge base and notebooks were the focus. I just had too many different potential projects going on to manage this well.

Looking to focus.

I'll revisit Firefox and SingleFile.

Explanation of the zip file inside.

https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/blob/master/faq...

[2] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/blob/master/faq...

I agree it would be "great" a complete website in the ZIP. I think this is technically possible, someone just have to code it.

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile#singlefile

Singlefile [1] works pretty well for me for that use case.

It has the added advantage that the file format is just plain HTML, and together with “reader mode” in most browsers, it’s a great way to save long-form text or other mostly static pages for later reference.

It obviously doesn’t work for very dynamic pages, let alone web apps.

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

I’ve tried all the third party services for archiving interesting things over the years but nothing beats saving everything to your local filesystem using [SingleFile](https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile) and using a full-text search front over the directory (something like Houdahspot, for example).

If you want to save them as a file locally you could use something like SingleFile. You could also put the URL for each wiki into archive.org's Save Page Now so that anyone can access it. Either way, without scripting, you'll have to do some manual labor to get the URL for each wiki.

For small numbers of pages, the SingleFile[0] extension for Firefox (WebExtension) is pretty handy. It's not "archival quality", though, if that's the kind of "archiving" you're doing.

[0] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile