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Vlad Thank you for the reply and the resource. I understand your concern and was just suggesting something that would enhance a large segment of web apps (I guess).

I'm not actually looking to create multiple instances. My intent was organizing and multitasking in web-apps.

I could just create many new windows of Orion and open the site(notion or something) and put on focus mode (btw the focus mode is so awesome) and That's what I was doing before the web-apps anyway.

And it wouldn't clutter the the bar below with many clones of same icon like in the ss below and it would also work nicely with mission control too unlike the below implementation of creating a new instance from terminal with

do shell script "open -n /Applications/Simplenote.app"

which is actually an awesome method (only worthwhile method from that list 😄) for edge cases.

I was just expecting "one more" 😉 option when creating web-apps in this case creating new windows. (Which honestly I've tried to press CMD+N in majority of the web-apps I've created and later realized it wouldn't work and got frustrated.)

But I also understand your goal of keeping the web app simple. That's why I suggested giving it as an option when creating and keeping it off by default like "Float on top" option. But if you consider that undermines the purpose of web-apps that's ok. I just feel like it's just a natural thing in most electron based implementation of apps too so it wouldn't be a far fetch to consider new windows as a natural feature of web-apps.

At the end of the day it's up to you to envision the Orion and what the implementation of web apps is to be. I would be happy if it was available in web apps otherwise I'll flirt with Orion a bit more. Kudos 🙂

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      thuvasooriya Thanks for understanding that when we do the first "one more thing" we create a precedent and have no way against defending adding much more. There are at least 10 other things that we already said no to for web apps , all sounding equally useful, but we have to draw the line somewhere otherwise web apps will converge back into a full browser as a matter of time. If this got 20+ upvotes that would be a different thing.

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          When installing The Assistant (https://kagi.com/assistant) as a web app (Tools > Install This Site as an app), the app should allow multiple windows.

          When The Assistant is installed as an app through Safari (using the Share menu > add to dock) multiple windows of the app can be spawned with ⌘ + N.

          Having multiple windows of The Assistant allows managing and referencing multiple chats at the same time.

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