sui VS ankiTab

This is very nice. It does, however, assume you only use one browser, or one device. I use a static page (https://github.com/rcarmo/sui) that I’ve since hacked to have zero off-LAN dependencies other than the weather, and which I set as home in everything.

But I like the idea of having a few widgets, so this is good inspiration - I just need to add an express server to store a bit of JSON.

I generally agree - a new tab should, for the most part, be distraction-free.

However, with some cleverness, you can add content to the new tab page that adds value - e.g. AnkiTab (https://github.com/corollari/ankiTab) to help you review your decks. Sure, it's a minor distraction, but it's time-bounded (unlike a news feed), and theoretically it's a net gain if your decks contain knowledge that's genuinely useful to you.

Firstly, I want to say that I never looked into how the anki infrastructure and everything works. I've found the comment I was thinking about. The context was a browser extension that lets you do reviews whenever you open a new tab, and for that connected to the anki service, basically doing a sync each time. Now, dae explains that a sync after a delay results in reloading the data from disk on the server, which on scale affects hosting costs.