April 1, 2024

It's Time to Say Goodbye to Tabs

It's Time to Say Goodbye to Tabs

Tab management and Kosmik

Paul Rony

Paul Rony

Founder of Kosmik

Founder of Kosmik

It's time to say goodbye to tabs!

👴🏻 BookLinks Technologies Internet Work has the privilege of being the first browser to add tabs to its user interface, in 19964, 30 years ago! Tabs were a workaround at the time, and they’re still one today. As the browser gradually became more and more important, people needed a way to organize the pages they had to keep open.

🤖 On a regular computer you would have saved them in a folder, kept them open in their respective app, but the browser is the overarching app, the one app to access all of those other web based content, documents and programs.

🗑️ It’s time to trash tabs and to create a real environment around the browser. There’s no reason to access the web from one single place. The web is pervasive, everywhere, it shouldn't be trapped behind the a single software or gate keeped through apps.

✂️ You should be able to invoke the web from anywhere, and take the relevant information with you. Today’s Kosmik update in a step in that direction, allowing you to organize your links, bookmarks, services and any other web content along with files, notes, drawings in a unified canvas that you can share with a click.


🌿 Here’s how we use this at Kosmik for example:
1️⃣ Create a canvas, paste the links from all the relevant services (Notion, Figma, Gitlab),
2️⃣ Add context (diagrams, notes, post-it, highlights)
3️⃣ Share.
This makes collaboration much easier, replaces a ton of messages, works super well asynchronously and gives us a centralized source of truth that we can reference easily.


Trash the tabs! Embrace the canvas 🌌