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Indistinguishable from Magic

https://www.notboring.co/p/indistinguishable-from-magic

I too like to live with a thousand tabs, keeps me on my toes

It’s the features for me. Arc just takes what other browsers do and makes it slightly better, in some cases much better. Apple do the same, not always the first, but a lot of the time the best. It’s also highly customisable which I enjoy.

If you double click the faved item it takes you to the original page I think

I feel the same about Chrome, it does what I need and see very little problems, so I’m a little apprehensive to what value Arc could add.

Little Arc is something I never knew I needed and is now my most used shortcut

I’m a full time Arc since last fall and this silly browser still make me feel giddy about it on a weekly basis.

It took a month-ish going back and forth, but last two months I’ve opened Chrome maybe twice, and I’m not looking back

I find Arc sensational and I really think it could become a gamechanger but I have not been able to get used to it, at least not on the first try 🤷

Same. Haven’t been able to get used to it. Hoping that I will but I’m back on Safari for the meantime.

I can’t get used to the border around the browser and don’t think I’m the target audience for their tab organization stuff (I embrace the chaos)

it’s awesome, you can have different accounts, history, organisation, extensions… you name it ahah

Definitely does a better job than chrome for grouping tabs

I struggle with how favorites act as a “perma-state” no matter how far you navigated into the favorited site. Sometimes I want to reset them and go back to the original landing page I favorited. I can do it with pinned tabs but not favorites, I think.

I switched last month and will never look back. The only downside for me is the bookmarking, very messy at the moment

Arcs amazing! I'll never go back to traditional browsers, unless they reinvent themselves. Arc is a breath of fresh air and suits my workflow way better

I love it, especially for switching between work and personal accounts

I’m convinced, will give it another shot tomorrow, third times a charm 🤞

Spaces with different profiles are a game changer. You can use one browser window for you personal life, works, personal projects… etc

Making the border black for me helped me get used to it. Makes it less noticeable.

Yeah it’s all about this. I used to find e.g. locating the right google calendar a nightmare in other browsers

I think I’ve been using it happily for about year!

Has anyone successfully made the transition to Arc? I’ve tried twice now but can’t get out of old habits 🤦‍♂️

I have although I'm no power user of chrome and was primarily on Safari earlier! Big recommend though–features keep getting added (some delightfully unexpected ones!)

Yeah, like recent "Peek" feature!! One of the best UX improvements in any app in recent years

Fully transitioned to Arc and it’s a game changer. Being able to have spaces for personal and work things, plus the Mini Arc for temporary work or opening up web links in other apps is super nice.

Fired it up 4 months ago—never looked back 💅

I love it, can’t see myself going back. The spaces are especially useful when siloing different clients/work stream comms.

This! I am still using  Arc daily and giving it lot of chances. Too many features make it somehow less usable. Peek, Mini Arc, Spaces, 🤷🏻‍♂️

Oh wowww that totally works. Thank you! That was one of the only things I was struggling with in Arc! Thanks man.

Now this peaks my interest… I didn’t know that was a thing, sounds super useful 🤔

safari still got me hooked! i’m only on 4, 5 tabs at a time as a student

Took me two weeks of cynicism and then I became a convert. Need to learn all the key commands and really use the transient windows.

Swiping from space to space with all of my work/personal/freelance accounts logged in is amazing. I have yet to really utilize Little Arc. Peek, yes.

Same, tried two times but eventually returned to Safari. I can’t pinpoint what it is. Maybe it’s too much features and too designed for a browser. I need it as basic as possible.

Although it’s not perfect I think their approach to the browser open the door for refreshing new opportunities. Maybe this article will be interesting / useful to those thinking about the switch: https://www.notboring.co/p/indistinguishable-from-magic

It’s only been a week for me and I love it. First couple of hours was an up and down of excitement and uncertainty. But then I was like “I’m going all in” and I set up everything in it. So far I really love it. The spaces with accounts is amazing.

Exactly. And I can’t seem to get used to the sidebar. Muscle memory expects the tabs to be at the top 😄

It’s been hard for me to switch because I’m not unhappy with my browser ever since I just switched to Safari and kept things as simple as possible but I keep wanting to try it again.

For me, it was the interface. I mean, it's really beautiful. And "Spaces" is the best interpretation of the 'tab groups' idea that I've tried

Big fan. Took me a minute to get used to it but now I’m hooked. I don’t want to go back to the old way of tab management.

I have! The hardest part for me was that I heavily switched tabs with keyboard shortcuts. 

Difficult in Arc if you pin anything. That being said, Workspaces are your friend.

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