I wrote a lil' app to provide a fast, uniform, search-based UI: https://keminglabs.com/finda/ (I got tired of every app implementing its own tabs.) Works with OS X windows, file system, browser tabs, history, Emacs buffers, VSCode, etc.
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Replying to @hadleywickham
Ranking is based entirely on how the item label matches your query words. An earlier prototype considered when you last selected items, as well things like the "last accessed" date from the browser history, but I nixed it. Reasoning here: https://kevinlynagh.com/datatron/
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Replying to @lynaghk
Ordering change from invocation to invocation can also be super annoying
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Replying to @hadleywickham
Yeah, totally. I do think a unified command-tab switching behavior could work well, but it'd require a lot of technical work --- every app would need to notify Finda when switches occur within that app so that Finda can keep a global list.
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Another behavior I've discovered in my own usage is that I don't really care about tabs anymore --- since Finda searches browser history, it doesn't matter if a page is "open" or not, since you type the same thing to pull it up either way.
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