Taboo, a firefox and flock extension I created with Manish Singh and Ian Fischer has been released!
Special thanks to Ian, who besides coding a bunch of it, helped push it through addons.mozilla.org (noticing that it was reviewed and submitting it to be added!)
What is Taboo?
Taboo is a solution to a problem I have. I want be able to save a page for later. While I could bookmark the page (locally or using delicious), I would lose my position in the page. As well, scrolling through tons of bookmarks is not fun.
So with taboo, we save your page for you. We use the session saver code to record your current location in the page. We use the canvas code to take a screenshot. We use sqlite to store all the information so you can search for previously saved taboos.... Then you can close the tab. When you want to return, you can find it with all the other tabs (searching, visual browsing or finding it on the calendar) and click it to go back to it - scrolled to the same position, form fields filled out, the back/forward button reverted to the history when you saved the page.
A meta goal I had for taboo was to make it easy to extend. That is why we have both a calendar view and a grid view. The code for both is about 20-40 lines of javascript and then css. So, if you want to build a better view, talk to us (taboo google group), and we will help you do it!
