The Hickensian

23.03.08 History Flow

10 comments

This is just superb.

Hetima had created a rudimentary version of this in an earlier version of SafariStand, but this has gone way beyond that. Rather than having to navigate to a folder in the Finder, this view is now activated via the History Menu. The web page thumbnails are better quality, and searchable too.

You can navigate using the arrow keys, and when you see the site you want, press return. It opens the site in a new tab, and closes the history flow panel.

Perfect for those ‘I can’t remember what it was called, but I can remember what it looked like’ moments. I tend to think visually about certain sites. I can’t help but just use Safari these days, and part of the reason is SafariStand.

Download from http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html

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No.1

∞ Justin Morris said 688 days ago:

Yeah i’m diggin this a fair bit!
Thanks for the tip! :)

No.2

∞ Jeff Croft said 688 days ago:

Freaking great idea. It’s really too bad InputManagers are so shady-feeling in Safari these days. I can’t bring myself to install them anymore (except for Inquisitor, which I make an exception for b/c it’s so damn useful). :(

No.3

∞ Jon Hicks said 687 days ago:

Strange man! If you can install Inquisitor, you can install SafariStand! ;o) Sure, InputManagers are hacks, but in the most part, they’re hacks that work. The problems occur mostly when Safari is updated, which isn’t that frequent.

No.4

∞ Jan Michael said 687 days ago:

Hi John,

looks like you have beneath the cover flow thingy some great HUD mod of your Safari history window. Do you mind sharing that with us?

No.5

∞ Jon Hicks said 687 days ago:

@Jan – if you mean the bit I think you mean, its all part of the same window!

No.6

∞ Dan Hiester said 687 days ago:

That really does look cool. I can’t wait to go home and try it!

I’ve been using the Firefox 3 beta lately because I love browsers that favor bookmarks and the titles of pages in your history for its URL auto-completion feature. Are there any bookmark plugins from pimpmysafari.com that you’re particularly fond of?

No.7

∞ Strony Internetowe said 686 days ago:

The new Safari is unbeliveable! I’m glad that there’s no monopoly with MS!

No.8

∞ Anthony Baker said 686 days ago:

Hey Jon, thanks (as always) for the pointer. Any idea if there’s a way to wire up a keyboard shortcut for History Flow? Also, are you getting a SafariStand error in the sidebar where the thumbnail images don’t resize properly and are clipped? For me, they seem to bleed outside of the area of the sidebar, regardless of how wide it is. Odd, that.

Personally, I’m torn more than ever between Safari and Firefox. FF3b4 is pretty brilliant (though there seems to be rendering problems on some sites — particularly when using more advanced CSS/AJAX effects). Have been using GrApple Yummy as my theme and it’s almost identical to Safari. Additionally, the sucker performs VERY well. Beats any kind of goodness that came from FF2.

Another feature I’ve added to FF3 recently is PicLens, which continues to completely blow my mind — there’s a version of it for Safari, but is nowhere near as brilliant as the FF one. Flickr viewing will never ever be the same…

No.9

∞ Olly said 685 days ago:

Heh, just noticed this post, complete with “I can’t help but just use Safari these days”, is on Planet Camino :)

No.10

∞ rich said 683 days ago:

Anthony Baker: as with any Mac menu command, you can create a keyboard shortcut in the keyboard preference pane. I’m loving the History Flow. My one request is to have a keyboard shortcut in the HUD to go to the search field.