Had tried it early this year, when you guys were covered by Techcrunch or some other publication I think.
I liked the idea, and gave it a shot. I think that was a very early version, and while I did like some of the features, I returned to doing it on chrome.
What I liked:
- Use of apps.
- Design: I liked the thought behind using both horizontal and vertical switching (not sure I described it right) which would means less tabs. More familiar for me since me taskbar is always on left.
Why I went back to chrome:
- I usually have two gmail accounts open simultaneously (one personal), so if I were to use station, I would still have to use Chrome anyways.
- No way to import history from chrome. (useful if I wanted to visit the same websites that I do now)
- Memory usage and performance (I am sure that would have been fixed now.)
- Autostart on every reboot: I am sorry, but this was the only reason I uninstalled it. I used it sparingly when I needed to focus, but autostart was really irritating so I uninstalled it.
Wish you all the best, and would love to use it more, but right now, I can focus with Chrome itself.
In a similar boat; I switch between multiple AWS, Gmail, Digital Ocean, GCP, etc accounts and it just didn't handle a 'full on power user'. I dev everything in Chrome and just utilize pinned tabs still.
The autolaunch was also very annoying. Having user profiles or personas to handle all my logged in states for that user would be awesome. let me know when that's in there and I will get it another try.
I host a few services for family/friends/clients and am also working on a couple of projects at a time so I am forever switching accounts on a weekly basis.
Thanks for your feedbacks! On some of your points:
- we do allow you to use multiple Gmail accounts, back when you used it it might not have been obvious enough but you can use as many Google accounts as you'd like
- indeed we are working hard on memory usage and performance at the moment. Since the TechCrunch cover you should definitely see a difference. Let us know in our community if this is not the case
- we've fixed that since then, you can remove autostart in the settings and it works now
Hey, one more reason I preferred Chrome was Adblocker. Sorry, forgot to mention this in previous post. Not so sure if it can be integrated in this, but I had gotten used to it, so it's weird to see the ads popup again. Especially when you are looking at marketing channels, and browse Instagram and Twitter too.
Have installed the app yesterday. The interface is more intuitive now. Looks good. Love the collection of apps too. And the quick switch as well.
Yes we didn't dedicate efforts to integrating an ad blocker because we mostly integrate applications in which you shouldn't see ads but Twitter or Instagram are good examples of where it's needed. We are working hard to integrate more extensions in the future and Ad blockers rank high on the list.
I liked the idea, and gave it a shot. I think that was a very early version, and while I did like some of the features, I returned to doing it on chrome.
What I liked: - Use of apps. - Design: I liked the thought behind using both horizontal and vertical switching (not sure I described it right) which would means less tabs. More familiar for me since me taskbar is always on left.
Why I went back to chrome: - I usually have two gmail accounts open simultaneously (one personal), so if I were to use station, I would still have to use Chrome anyways. - No way to import history from chrome. (useful if I wanted to visit the same websites that I do now) - Memory usage and performance (I am sure that would have been fixed now.) - Autostart on every reboot: I am sorry, but this was the only reason I uninstalled it. I used it sparingly when I needed to focus, but autostart was really irritating so I uninstalled it.
Wish you all the best, and would love to use it more, but right now, I can focus with Chrome itself.