Workona makes browser-based work a pleasure. I’d used tools like Sidewise or Tree-Style tabs to bundle groups of tabs by the type of work I was doing. These tools were better than nothing but fundamentally flawed. Navigation was clunky and slow, all tabs took up visual space and computer memory, there was little support for accessing recently used tabs, and state was local to the browser instance I was using on the single machine I was on.
Instead, Workona seamlessly gets right:
Activity-based grouping of Tabs, Notes, Todos, and Resources in Workspaces
Browser Session Management and Synchronization across computers
Blindingly-fast switching
Minimizing resource usage
Quick, simple shortcuts for navigation, switching, search, and organization
Instant Search across resources and tabs
Simple access to recently visited tabs
Teams and Workspace Collaboration: Disclaimer—I have not explored this.
On Chrome the Workona dashboard in the first pinned tab will look like this.
From there you can access all your Workspaces, Tabs, Resources, and Notes. But, you don’t have to be in the dashboard.
For example, from the tab where I’m writing this article, in my Writing workspace:
with its own collection of tabs related to my writing activities, I can search by typing Shift-Option-F How<Enter>, during which I’ll see this:
which transports me instantly to the tab with the article I was looking for in what might be my Research workspace where I was reading it, with all the other tabs from Research swapped into the browser window.
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I find the Notes, and Todos nice to have’s, but not crucial as I use other tools for that. Workona shines when used with collaboration tools like Google Drive or Dropbox, and I have yet to use the collaborative features, which allow the definition of Teams of collaborators, and let you share workspaces updated in real-time.
Workona is (mostly) free, and was mid-wifed by amazing seed-stage VC and operator Manu Kumar, who also started Carta.
Let me know your impressions of Workona or your other favorite productivity tools in the comments.
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In a brief prior post I recommended Workona, my favorite browser productivity tool. Here are some more details.
Workona makes browser-based work a pleasure. I’d used tools like Sidewise or Tree-Style tabs to bundle groups of tabs by the type of work I was doing. These tools were better than nothing but fundamentally flawed. Navigation was clunky and slow, all tabs took up visual space and computer memory, there was little support for accessing recently used tabs, and state was local to the browser instance I was using on the single machine I was on.
Instead, Workona seamlessly gets right:
Activity-based grouping of
Tabs, Notes, Todos, and Resources in Workspaces
Browser Session Management and Synchronization across computers
Blindingly-fast switching
Minimizing resource usage
Quick, simple shortcuts for navigation, switching, search, and organization
Instant Search across resources and tabs
Simple access to recently visited tabs
Teams and Workspace Collaboration: Disclaimer—I have not explored this.
On Chrome the Workona dashboard in the first pinned tab will look like this.
From there you can access all your Workspaces, Tabs, Resources, and Notes. But, you don’t have to be in the dashboard.
For example, from the tab where I’m writing this article, in my Writing workspace:
with its own collection of tabs related to my writing activities, I can search by typing
Shift-Option-F How<Enter>,during which I’ll see this:which transports me instantly to the tab with the article I was looking for in what might be my Research workspace where I was reading it, with all the other tabs from Research swapped into the browser window.
More
I find the Notes, and Todos nice to have’s, but not crucial as I use other tools for that. Workona shines when used with collaboration tools like Google Drive or Dropbox, and I have yet to use the collaborative features, which allow the definition of Teams of collaborators, and let you share workspaces updated in real-time.
Workona is (mostly) free, and was mid-wifed by amazing seed-stage VC and operator Manu Kumar, who also started Carta.
Let me know your impressions of Workona or your other favorite productivity tools in the comments.