startertab VS ankiTab

You can see the code on GitHub here. I always want feedback on my code, please have at it!

The site is completely customisable, you can create a start page that suits your own style.

Initially, I built the site to only work for me, however I wanted the website to be re-usable for anyone. You can now login to your own Twitter/Spotify/Strava accounts for your own personal feed.

Everything is stored locally in your own browser so there's none of your data floating around in the clouds somewhere.

You can find the code at https://github.com/allister-grange/startertab.

Here are some examples of themes in a gif:

To get rid of or re-organise tiles you could fork the repo, and comment out ones you don't want in this file here. You can change the spanning of the tiles with the rowSpan and colSpan props. You would then need to host the site yourself on Vercel, or some other platform, with your own API keys.

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.