I have a silly white collar job, where I have to send a lot of emails and look at dashboards. Lots of dashboards. So I have to be on Chrome a lot. But there's so many opportunities for distraction, and, as someone with ADHD, this is Not Great. And, when I get home, I'm still on chrome a lot, because I use online dictionaries when writing and I just want to keep looking at content in my free time.
I discovered Sidekick from an article based on ADHD-focused tech and was immediately intrigued. It's a Chromium-based browser, so importing my bookmarks/cookies/etc was seamless for me. It automatically blocks a lot of trackers (to the point that it breaks some of my dashboards lol, but my job is digital marketing so it's understandable) and suspends non-active tabs.
But the real draw of this is that you just...don't need to have a million tabs open. You can have "sessions" with clusters of tabs that are remembered and can be pulled up when you need them. Like I had a session just for working on my CV, so they were never open when I wasn't working on it. And you can have separate "workspaces," which has different browsing data and apps.
And what are apps? Well, it's just a bookmark to a webpage, but the idea is you put your most-used stuff as apps, so now you don't have a million tabs (or the bookmarks bar) fighting for your attention. You get the little notification badges on the side. You don't have to switch out to Slack, or Discord, or Telegram, or your email. You can stay JUST in Sidekick! Everything is all there!
You can check it out with [this link]. But, for full transparency, if enough people download it from that link, I get the pro version for free for life, which would be very cool. And that's how they make money, people paying for pro, they don't do any ad tracking or data selling, which is neat.
At work, I've been burning through tasks. I'm on top of everything, my to-do list is all waiting on other people, and my email inboxes are empty (because I have to deal with multiple emails, since my life is hard). At home I'm laser-focused on what I have to do, which means I'm spending more time writing. And reading! Real books! And not Internet posts!
It's still in development and they're working on a bunch of stuff, like different workspaces having different sets of bookmarks. But I'm really happy to have found this bit of software and I hope it can help people out, too π If you have questions, let me know!