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Prakhar Gupta
I think it's time for me to finally say goodbye to station. I really loved it but now the station app store is not working. And the new app is not helpful at all.
Please bring back the old station.
Maud Miguet
Hello Prakhar Gupta, we just fixed the app store of the desktop app. But we understand your feeling as we are not really maintaining and updating the desktop app anymore.
You should check the last versions of the extension, it's still in beta but we are adding new things all the time! :)
Kyle Burns
Hey all! I will also add my two cents here. One of my favorite parts of the desktop app was the ability to switch between my personal Gmail account, calendar, and Google drive while also having my work G Suite account accessible at the click of a button. When using the Station Chrome add-in, I cannot switch between apps. The sidebar was the reason it was so easy to move around the app. Now, it take many more clicks to do the same task which is a direct contradiction of what the new Station Chrome extension is intended to be. Please bring back the sidebar!
Damiano Barbati
Honestly, I really don't understand this new version of station.
Kyle Burns
Damiano Barbati: I'm still trying to find the benefit of the new Chrome extension myself. I haven't found the extra seconds and minutes the new interface claims to save. I'm disappointed but hopeful that the feedback provided in threads like these will encourage the Station team to find a solution that works for all parties.
Daniel Zavala Svensson
+1 on this. The sidebar WAS station for me. Specifically:
- Being immediatly able to immediately see and navigate all open tabs, for a specific app.
- When no tabs where open for one of my favourite apps, I could with just one click open a new tab with that app.
- Opening a new tab would open the "main page" or similar, not the last page I happened to visit which is no longer relevant to me. If the last page I visited was still relevant I would have left it open, see point 1.
- Only show apps I had specifically added, and remembering the order. This let me learn my sidebar so that after a while I using it was almost subconscious.
Kyle Burns
Daniel Zavala Svensson: You're so correct. The sidebar was Station for me as well. I am increasingly considering a subscription to Shift where the sidebar exists in the standalone app.
Philip Stanley
Prior to Station I'd used a lot of website-as-a-desktop-app solutions, but Station's ability to aggregate those desktop 'apps' into a workspace was great, and a real boon to an efficient workflow.
Genuinely depressing news on the new direction even with limitations and difficulties with some apps (always wanted to have Dashlane integration) and some lacking features such as pull through of chrome extensions I use for Trello. They're all tradeoffs I was happy to make for the daily delight of just getting on with stuff.
Multiple tabs, however managed, are painful. I'm using safari whilst writing this at the moment. I can't abide the way it hides tabs by horizontally scrolling them out of the way - on a 15" I have 13 mixed tabs I can just about read a word from.
In my Station I have 15 apps in immediate view with each small collection of their associated regular pages (particular boards in Trello for instance) a click away, and another 32+ 'apps'- not browser windows - a scroll away with a click, and notifications for all of them.
47 apps that I don't need to worry about.
If you would like to knock up a quick video on how to set that up in Safari or Chrome using the extension alongside the normal browsing tabs I have open (currently 23 as I'm researching some software) so I can make sense of it on a 15" screen I'd be immensely grateful.
Forgot to add the smiley - I would like the help :-)
Jesse Stigile
I want to love this, but I am already drowning in the tab clutter.
I'm not opposed to using station in a web browser, but only if I'm able to pivot between pre-loaded apps - picking up right where I left off at - from a sidebar/menu (wasn't this always the point??). Otherwise Station is just a glorified bookmark menu, pumping out new tabs and overwhelming my workflow.
Kit Lemmonds
The sidebar was actually the only reason I used Station. The current beta extension doesn't seem to improve workflow significantly over simple browser bookmarks, and I don't see the sidebar in the extension's roadmap at all. I'd actually quit using the app months ago because notifications in the sidebar were constantly broken. Without the sidebar, there's really no reason to use Station in my workflow.
Walter Siedschlag Jr.
Kit Lemmonds: I agree
Alex Godbehere
Kit Lemmonds: Agreed.
Sloan Stewart {Dev}
Yep. I just used station as a completely separate app than my browser to consolidate work tools like Slack, a time tracker, and some others. It never really worked well with the web version of Outlook so I kept those up in other tabs, although I would have rather had them in Station.
Station on one monitor for those work apps, and then a browser for other work uses since I'm often copying and pasting urls or other things.
Having Station in the browser completely negates this workflow. Gotta find an alternative.
Rohan Agarwal
Yeah, first thing I miss is the quick navigation to the app when I click on it. I don't want to make the decision on which page to open after I click on app. It should automatically open the last open page or my last workflow for the app. Right now, this feels more like an alternative to the chrome search bar itself where I can type the app name and open the recent page for the app from the suggestions. Don't see much value being added. Sorry if being harsh, just trying to give an honest opinion.
Shirley Li
Same... I get that this updates might be great for some users, but the reason I used Station is to have something different than using Gmail in my browser; unfortunately, now it's of no difference... Waiting for more updates to change my opinion...
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