Taboo

Wednesday, Aug 18, 2010

Choose to save websites as organized images you can retrieve easily and read later. Eliminate the need to keep tabs open as a reminder to review content in the future.

Keeping track of the sites you love—or just suspect you might want to read—can be tricky. And everyone has method they prefer best. It could be that Taboo does the trick for you.

To understand Taboo, start by thinking about tabs. Many users keep a site tab open just because they see something they want to read later, and don’t want to forget the site. This method results in lots of tabs open in the here-and-now, even though content isn’t read until far in the future…

Taboo gets the tabs that are better read tomorrow out of your tab line up, while still saving them for later.

After you install Taboo, you’ll see two red and gray icons in your toolbar. Here’s a nice explanation of what they do:

And here’s a view of how Taboo saved tabs. You just click on a screenshot to go back to a site:

You can also choose “save all tabs” and save all open tabs at once.

Try it out. Taboo may work for you.

Post from Elise Allen, who gives extra points to Taboo because it's such a clever name. See all posts by Elise Allen.

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  1. Lukas Blakk

    This type of tool came up the other day too as I was testing out tabCandy in the Firefox 4 beta – saving things to read later is always awesome. I didn’t hear mention of Taboo at the time – people mentioned Read It Later – but it’s good to know that this is out there and I will add it to my work-space improvement testing.

    August 18th, 2010 at 6:27 pm

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  2. pritam sanyal

    YEAH! That’s really a good & nice and make my firefox simple and easier, therefore I must say that it is cool and awesome…………

    August 19th, 2010 at 8:06 am

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  3. Mic

    Might be interesting, but there’s something else I’d like to comment on: the screenshots are … bad. Why? They show almost anyhting but the things it should.

    The background color/theme/persona is non-default and distracting. There’s plenty of icons lying around. Even though you might know which ones are important for the extension you like to advertise, most users won’t know and most likely feel as confused as I did. That includes bookmarks as well.

    I guess having screenshots taken on a new profile with everything set to default and only the extension of interest installed /or at least activated might be best.

    I hope you don’t mind this unsolicited advice.

    Regards, Mic

    August 20th, 2010 at 1:55 am

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    1. Elise Allen

      Thanks Mic,

      That’s great advice, and I’ll definitely heed it in the future. It’s true that I just use my normal Fx configuration to take these screenshots, and now that you point it out — Yikes! This review is a particularly good example of why not to do that.

      Before I review an add-on I need to use it in the most genuine way, so I add it to my normal routine, amongst all the other stuff I have on my browser. That said, putting it in a default setting for screenshots is an easy solve.

      Thanks for reading Rock Your Firefox

      August 20th, 2010 at 4:15 pm

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  4. plonut

    Amazing app. I’m now able to fit just my rss feeds on my bookmark toolbar. Very useful. Thanks!

    August 20th, 2010 at 3:27 am

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  5. Jake

    It’s a pretty useful plug-in, now instead of adding pages to the bookmarks tab and forgetting they are there, I use taboo :)

    August 20th, 2010 at 3:56 pm

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  6. Vijay James

    I tried installing Taboo on Firefox 4Beta 3 but it turned out to be unsuccessful. There was an error message that mentions “Taboo is not supported for this browser”.

    August 21st, 2010 at 12:11 am

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  7. Download

    hey, great post.. thanks for sharing !

    November 14th, 2010 at 9:04 am

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