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Horse — The Organized Browser
Browse the internet with one simple sidebar that organises every page, task, and project inside 'Trails®' — nested groups of pages that capture the natural flow of each internet journey. That's right, – no more tabs, bookmarks, or history.
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Horse came up on my Twitter (X) feed after the news that the folks behind Arc were pivoting to build another browser. Seems pretty interesting and like a lightweight version of Arc that could be a good alternative for power users.
Been using Horse for over a year now. Love it! Pascals attention to detail with the UX is what makes this a pleasure to use.
Amazing work @pascalpixel
Also, respect the Mustache! 🫡
If I may so ask you - industrial/IxD designer and career product pro here - I would be pleasantly surprised if you acquired a patent on Trails.. have you?
I would guess it would be super hard to secure one for the proposed interface workflow that you built into Horse.
What would stop other browsers from simply Sherlocking the feature into their own?
Great work Pascal! Been following the project for a while and it looks very interesting.
I support anyone who takes the utterly infinitely complex task of trying to solve tab & link management :) I saw this on Twitter the other day as well! Love the concept of Trails, definitely a unique way to manage the browsing experience. But on it's own I think it still leaves a lot of things to be solved. Curious to see how it develops overtime. All the best @pascalpixel
@owenfar a loooooot of work went into the linking logic, sadly the hardest part is always invisible, you probably know this better than most!
Wow, there's a saying in russian which goes "Да ты на коне!" which translates literally as you're on a horse but it means that you're having a streak of success lol
Congrats on the launch!
Keychain/login is the biggest block for me to start using it for some of the usecases but I'm looking closely at where horse can get to with all this attention and success?! Maybe we'll see nested tabs in arc and horse gets sold to apple?
I've used Horse for the last 4 months, switching over from Arc (before it was cool 😂).
I switched because (1) I love vertical tabs (2) For all the shiny features of Arc, I found the spaces more overwhelming than they gave me a feeling of organisation and being in control. Arc is a lot of fun little ideas put together but eventually it felt like less than the sum of its parts.
I really wanted a simple browser where I can can organise myself around my projects easily so I can be more intentional, and Horse 🐴 is that for me.
It's early days so it doesn't do everything, and isn't for everyone. I know Pascal has a million comments asking for full chrome extension support to come sooner! But if you are borderline ADHD or someone who saves a lot of pages and wants to get their projects done, I really recommend it.
Excited to see where this ends up 🚀
@jonnymiles this review/comment is making me want to try Horse even more now. I'm still on Arc and I personally do love Spaces. before I just had multiple Chrome windows open with different profiles.
The full extension support is a biiitttt of a turn off, so might try it after a couple more releases. Thanks for sharing!
@jonnymiles thanks for being such a huge support these last few months and for all the insight when we spoke during my 'learning to talk to customers' series a couple weeks ago
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glad to hear horse is helping you stay intentional and organized around your projects excited to keep improving it, and grateful to have power users like you on board
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All this time we were told that browsers needed to be made by huge teams with millions of $ in VC funded, and the legions of influencer hype that comes with it – but then I used Horse and realized that was a lie.
Lol but seriously, Horse is a great browser that really excels if you're the kind of person that thinks of your tabs as series of web of pages grouped around research themes (aka Trails).
In this case 'research' doesn't only mean scholorly academia, but also tasks like buying the perfect blender, or figuring the error message on some code that won't compile means.
@pketh i love kinopio and we should do a collab that’s just an art installation of connected links on post it notes
Just wanted to say, been trying this for the last few days and it's great. It's so much easier to follow a trail of thought, rather than having a million tabs open, going to make a cup of coffee, losing your place and then closing them all in frustration.
One idea: I'd love if the notes used markdown. For example, being able to have a place to add todos as you are researching a project, or just generally formatting your notes would be really useful.
I wonder, how this compares to Tree Style Tab or other similar extensions? And what was the thought process of forking Chromium as opposed to creating a chrome extension for this?
@mkotsollaris visually, it looks like tree style tabs, but most of the work is in the interactions, which can’t be done as an extension. there’s a quote on our homepage of how it compares to tree style tabs.
I know Pascal well and he's an awesome dude, that cares a lot about the things he makes. He has a relentless focus on delivering quality. Keep it going homie.
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