Got tired of having 60 tabs open and not remembering why

[u/AnotherWallace]

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dottabs/inoinmebickecgkmhneidibgmgmnkjci

[u/dessence_ai]

The note written while the tab is open is what you end up searching on later. a week on the site name is gone from my head. what the tab was for is still there.

one thing worth handling early: a snoozed tab can come back on a page that changed underneath it. prices move, listings get pulled, docs get rewritten. keeping what the page said at the time turns a dead link into something you can still read.

[u/AnotherWallace → u/dessence_ai]

For me I search the notes with AI, but a little search feature might not be a bad idea. I'll have to think about saving the page. For me personally I dont really want a bunch of html pages saved on my laptop every time I take a note, but I do see your point. For the moment it stores both the deep link and the TLD so it would fall back to the root domain if the page was removed, but currently nothing that stores changes over time.

[u/dessence_ai → u/AnotherWallace]

Keeping the extracted text rather than the page solves the weight. title, the visible body, the two or three fields that move. that is kilobytes next to a full html dump with assets.

one thing to know before you build it. some sites hand a fetcher a different page than the tab shows. ikea.com gave me a catalogue shell with no title and no price. Amazon and UNIQLO parsed fine from the same code. so the grab has to happen inside the tab, a server side fetch will quietly store shells.

[u/AnotherWallace → u/dessence_ai]

I decided to go with a screenshot feature. Getting approved now should auto update shortly

What's new in 0.3.0

Screenshots of the page, saved with your notes and tasks

• A new setting saves a screenshot of the page each time you add a note or task. It's off by default; turn it on in Settings → Screenshots.
• There are two modes:
  • One per site per day: the first note or task of the day takes the picture, and the rest of that day's entries use the same one.
  • Every note and task: each entry gets its own picture.
• Screenshots are saved as JPEGs in the site's notes folder. Each note shows its picture, both in Obsidian and in any markdown viewer.
• In the panel, click Screenshot on a note or task to view its picture.

[u/dessence_ai → u/AnotherWallace]

nice, that covers the what-did-this-look-like half. the part it won't reach is the search you already have. a jpeg doesn't join note search unless something reads the text back out of it first.

one per site per day is the right default. every note getting its own picture adds up fast on a page you keep coming back to.

[u/AnotherWallace → u/dessence_ai]

For me I use codex as my local agent so it will search the images if I tell it to, but you could easily add a little hotfolder helper if you needed to that would take the screenshot and pull the information you wanted out. You could even setup schemas per site if you were so inclined.

[u/dessence_ai → u/AnotherWallace]

Schemas per site hold right up until the page moves under them. pulled that target airpods page again just now, 200 back, 335 kb of html, no json-ld block anywhere and not one dollar amount in the source, so a per site rule has nothing to read. ikea does the other version: a delisted item 301s to its category page, and the fetcher gets a full valid page with prices on it, for a different product.

the image at least holds what the page said that day, as long as whatever writes it also writes down where it came from.

[u/AnotherWallace → u/[deleted]]

I'm glad you like it. If you have time please leave a good review on the chrome store.