move over Vivaldi i have a new sidekick
Posted on 16 May 2024 by penguiva — 2 min
Sidekick is basically Flock browser reborn, and it’s a good thing. Similar to Vivaldi, incorporating keyboard shortcuts with Sidekick can greatly improve your productivity and efficiency. Using Alt + S allows you to search for more than just apps, bookmarks, history, and documents. This feature goes beyond that by offering you the option to run commands, making it a versatile and comprehensive search tool. By utilizing various profiles, users have the ability to create separate accounts, such as work and personal accounts, each having their own unique browsing history and collection of applications. One of the standout features of Sidekick is multiple accounts. You can add another copy of the same app to the sidebar with a different account. Sidekick also offers split view functionality, which offers users a simplified version of Vivaldi’s tiling tabs.
Workspaces, quick notes, and sessions are some of the other interesting features you can find. One way to organize your unique sets of tabs is by using sessions to divide them. It is possible for workspaces to contain varying combinations of apps and sessions. In addition to its other features, Sidekick also provides you with the capability to develop custom apps, allowing you to transform any website into an app, and the best part is that there is no limit to the number of website apps you can create.
Vivaldi caters to the power user, someone who values complete control and customization options, while Sidekick is designed for the intermediate user or power user who is willing to compromise on some customization and control in exchange for enhanced productivity and organization, without relinquishing too many of the features that power users demand. Vivaldi, much like the new Arc browser, is encumbered by an abundance of features and choices for customization. The inclusion of various additional features, like built-in email, calendar, and easels, adds to the confusion. The fundamental problem arises from the misconception that browsers should function like operating systems.
Hopefully, Sidekick will learn from the mistakes of Vivaldi and Arc, and focus on maintaining a limited yet useful set of features. Extensions are a valuable tool for catering to the needs of power users, as they allow for the provision of non-available features that ensure their requirements are fully met.