The Browser Pane is ready!
The Email Pane is now the Browser Pane. Gmail and Outlook still work the same way as before, but now it’s a full browser so you can open any website.
It now has an address bar and a Favorite button so you can save your favorite sites into the overview.
The Browser Pane has a plugin system that I’ve filled out with some popular apps that I’ve wanted to be able to save links to. The main purpose of the plugins is to add or adjust draggability to save permalinks correctly. It should handle any hyperlink on any site already, but some of them just need a little adjusting to the saved text or link. More complicated apps need a bit more complexity, like for Slack and Shortwave it adds a little Legend icon that you can drag from, and I’m planning to also make it a button to quick add to a document.
I’m planning to eventually make a way to create custom plugins, or submit plugins to a public repository. But for now while I’m still figuring out what features plugins need to have to support most sites, I’ll keep making more and find the patterns between them.
I also changed how Legend handles opening links - they now open in a popup browser view rather than open your browser. I think that should be a less jarring experience, and you can press Cmd + O or Ctrl + O to open in browser. I’ll make that a setting soon.
I’ve been playing with the browser pane for the past couple of weeks and it’s been a big help in managing tasks in Slack, to take unstructured messages and threads and put them into my organization system. And it’s been great for organizing the open issues/PRs in Legend-State’s Github repo. I’m just starting to play with using Shortwave for email instead of Gmail directly so I needed it to work in Legend too 🙂.
What do you think?
- Is this (or could this be) useful to you?
- How could it work better for you?
- Are there any other sites you’d like to have a plugin for?
Install
