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Tile View
An improved method for managing numerous tabs simultaneously.

How it works
Essentially, this functionality enables users to drag tabs directly from the menu bar and, by pressing Shift, snap them into a grid-like arrangement. Meaning that you would do the same thing as creating a new orion window by dragging a tab, in addition to holding shift. (Photo: https://ibb.co/tJCsBDv, Photo 2: https://ibb.co/PCHqgpz)

Detect
To help a user utilise this feature more effectivly: When a user drags a tap holding shift tiles will automatically resize, giving the user a preview, simular to multitasking in IPadOS. (Photo: https://ibb.co/Y7Fwhm9, https://ibb.co/cCQPxFp, https://ibb.co/Y7Fwhm9)

Menubar buttons
To accommodate for such a feature the menu bar will always adjust to the window currently hovered, although a user can lock the menubar to a certain tile if they so wish. In addition to the lock button two other buttons will automatically appear on a selected tab in a tile view.

Edit Mode: Move and Resize all Tiles in a tile view
Maximise: This Button removes this window (or potentially all windows) from the tile view and brings them back to fullscreen

-All features should have keyboard shortcuts-

I hope this is more helpful. 🙂

    Paul_Snowy Thank you for very detailed proposal.

    Note this is a very serious UI undertaking, and I am not sure how any 'buyers' are out there for this (seems to be a feature for people with very large monitors only). If/when this gets 20+ upvotes, I am glad to engage in further discussion.

        3 months later
        Merged 5 posts from Tile View and much more.
          15 days later

          Hi, has there been any update on this that you could share, as we're well past 20 upvotes now? 🙂

            One suggestion here I'd like to mention is the ability to have multiple windows for the named window.

            Being able to have multiple windows side by side (or 2x2) is critical to many workflows.

            From an organization POV, each named window to organize a partcular topic. It would act like a workspace for the topic.

            Example:
            If working on a coding project, I might want 1 entry to be the documentation page, One to be the github source, and another to be some research associated with the feature I'm building.

            From a workflow perspective, I would want everything to be organized to the same named window, but I would want the documentation window sit side by side the github window.

            Details:
            Assume there is a named windows called "Database" with tabs "github, google doc, and hackernews" with the github tab currently selected.

            • A user could enter a keyboard shortcut and create duplicate window for "Database". that selects the next tab in the list (google doc)
            • User could also click a link with a keyboard modifier (shift, option) and open a new link in "Database" but in a new window view

            The second one ask is low priority but the first would be really useful

            Merged 2 posts from [Feature Request] - Multiple Instance of Named windows..

              Still love the idea...so excited that it is finally happening. the way i want it to work is mentioned on https://abetterorion.framer.ai or in my other post. This could be the thing that brings me back to Orion...
              (I have recently switched to arc and safari😢)

              • Vlad replied to this.

                Paul_Snowy As far as I know Safari does not have this feature. What does it have?

                    It doesn’t which is why I’ve also started to use arc though I am really fed up with it not working with my password manager.

                    I am currently testing out basically every browser I am interested in. Here are my thoughts if any of you are interested.

                    https://www.craft.me/s/oL1sFRgXoodlzk

                    Note I haven’t updated it for around a month, so certain things have happened since… I will probably update it within the next few weeks.

                      eirk

                      Partially. From a functionality POV, I tile other apps (Pages, Slack, Obsidian, etc) in split screen view next to Orion. Tiling within orion would be more limiting (especially doing quadrants

                      Also It seems to be way more engineering effort to do tab tiling within Orion then to just let other tools handle tiling (betttertouchtool, swish, etc)

                      The bigger fix for me would simply be to have multiple instances of a named window (I treat them more like workspaces then just named windows). Ironically, a bug actually triggered the functionality I wanted about 3 versions ago, but it stopped working

                      I think this is a seperate (simpler) ask then tab tiling.

                      • belg replied to this.

                          RaviPatel

                          I'd rather have tab tiling for the browser handled by the browser. Arc does a really great job at this. I understand there's more engineering overhead, but from a user perspective they do not want more apps to do the same things if it can be achieved within the app itself. Simplier is better. This also allows for different keystrokes to trigger different ways of tiling. Ie. holding option such that it opens in the window, etc.

                              5 days later

                              belg

                              I think there are definitely arguements for both. I'm not arguing agains tab tiling. Like I said, my feature request is somewhat orthogonal and was merged into this conversation.

                              I'm more asking for named workspaces. A similar function is achevied already in safari's tab groups.

                                  3 months later

                                  This feature allows the user to easily load two websites side by side, which can be highly effective for needing two separate tabs on the screen for various purposes. Effectively, it creates the same benefits of having two browser windows open and utilizing MacOS's split screen feature.

                                  I have often used this feature during two instances:

                                  1. While on a video conference call (such as Google Meet). Half of my screen is the google meet tab, while the other tab is a notes document where I am taking meeting notes.

                                  2. While performing research. The first tab is my research notes document, while the other tab is for searching and reading links from search engines.

                                  I have been using this feature on the Arc browser and Edge browser for the past year, and I can confidently say that it's one of the defining features that keep bringing me back to these browsers. The best execution I have seen is in the Arc browser, where you can Option + Click on any link and automatically open it in the screen split screen mode alongside the currently open window.

                                  I would love for Orion to adopt this idea.

                                    Merged 2 posts from Splitscreen Mode.

                                      I liked the expose mockup from the website, and behavior wise perhaps similar to SigmaOS where you can drag and drop (and or show a separate section in the tabs to indicate the split view slots in the tab bar as well) into the "slot" of the layout in the split view anytime you wanted.

                                      But anything that you all do would be greatly appreciated.

                                        22 days later

                                        please don't make it limited to 2 splits, I have 32:9 monitor and even maximum of 4 splits in arc is sometimes limiting for me. Arc does it great, similar to how Vim handles splits. So each tab has its own split. This way you can have multiple tabs that each have their own splits and you can switch between them.

                                          21 days later

                                          Just wanted to give a big +1 to this one. Lack of split view is the only reason I stick to Arc at work where I have a big screen and need to do a lot of research with two or more tabs side by side.

                                          • Vlad replied to this.

                                            Vlad Sorry, you didn't ask me, but I will also reply to this:
                                            It's because in Arc you can have a tab with multiple splits, and you can go back and forth between this tab with splits and another full screen tab, if you have two windows side by side, you have to have a separate window for fullscreen tabs, or to resize the window all the time, and window management on mac isn't that great. Also opening a tab in a split view in arc is just option+enter, super easy, wish more browsers had this feature.