I tried a hidden tool in Edge and Opera. Now it’s hard to go back to safari
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Imagine a browser that allows you to create a visual journal, what saves all your favorite content with rich observations and clean organization while synchronizing in all your devices? Well, you won’t find it Nirvana in Safari, but you can try it in Opera and Microsoft Edge.
Over the past two years, my browser’s loyalty has been cruelly shifted. From the comfort of Chrome and Safari to experiments with Firefox and ARC, I have tried to find a home elsewhere, but I was unable to climb one.
I love my supplements, and this is one of the essential reasons I spent most of my professional time with chrome -based browsers. But the situation becomes more complicated as one moves from desktop to mobile.
My love for tablets keeps me not to commit to a single desktop experience, but it comes with my own set of compromises. Finally, I realized that the best browser is where I can get into all my ideas, highlights and content – with smooth synchronization thrown into the mix.
Safari, unfortunately, offers a versatile experience. In addition, Microsoft’s Edge and Opera do a fantastic job in it. After experimenting with the underestimated feature of collections in Edge and Pinboards in Opera, I do not see myself returning to Safari at any time soon.
Safari is bad in the organization

The Apple browser allows you to organize your content as sets of tabs, which can thankfully be synchronized through the equipment. But as a journalist and science reporter, I have many groups open at all times, which means they quickly eat system resources.
The only other option you have is to store websites as a page, add them to a reading list or save a local copy. But when you are making a half-dozen groups, each with 15-20 research tabs, their saving is not possible.
It’s not just about the work, but also the treatment of a list of content you want to read later. Safar’s approach is neither efficient nor elegant. This also explains why tools such as Pockets are a hot favorite in the Apple community for organizing online content.
Moreover, the reading lists in Safari are neither divisible nor allow any form of cooperation. Plus, they look weird without any content observation and do not support any custom additions. All they do is save a URL in a container.
Pinboards in the opera browser

This is probably the most useful content organizer I have seen so far. Think of it as Pinterest boards, but about the opera browser. The idea makes sense, and is beautifully executed with a host of additional conveniences in the traction.
To get started, you can create a pinboard directly and add the website you are currently being monitored by clicking on the Pin icon on the URL bar. Otherwise, you can add it to any of your existing pinboards from the drop-down box.

Dedicated Pinboard page is where things get interesting, and a more convenient tad. For example, if you have a dozen active files but do not want to add them one after another, you can simply open the desired board and import them all together using the “Add tab” feature.
CARDDO Article card on a pinboard is also personalized. You can add your title, short description and a personalized image to go with it. Otherwise, the URL you add will automatically select the web survey, with the predetermined image of the article in traction.

While adding custom descriptions, the card size is dynamically adjusted. It may start to look a little casual, but there is a nice return available. Instead of using predetermined and dense formats for card adjustment, I went with the wide model.
This accumulates all the cards on a pinboard vertically, like a social media food. This layout also gives more horizontal space to each card, such as a news food with large figures. I prefer the vertical movement format much more than the arm accumulation of the article card.

You can adjust each pinboard with its own paper to fit the topic, copy entire boards and move around the cards using a simple crawl and drop. You can even adjust the appearance of pinboards, just the way you adjust the appearance of the cards.
What I like most about opera pinboards is that not only are they synchronized in the equipment, but they can also be separated. Once the pollution is fired, a custom URL is generated that you can share with any person in a vision form.

The recipient can see pinboards in any browser of their choice, just as they were created in opera. Moreover, you do not need to go through entry or access requests so you can see pinboard separated by another person.
Collections at Microsoft Edge

To do the work done on my tablet and desktop, I save all my ideas, research materials and fast access tools on their dedicated opera pinboards. Whenever I am on the go, I simply ventilate the pinboard connections on my equipment and continue with my workflow on every device of my choice.
Microsoft Edge’s browser is not far away. At the advantage, you get a dedicated system called collections. Unlike the opera, which step pinboard on a dedicated tab, Edge opens collections on a side panel on the right edge of the screen, which is less intruders and more convenient.

To add a page to a specific collection, you simply open it to the side bar using a keyboard shortcut and hit the “Add the current page” button on top. You don’t have to go through the trouble of copying and climbing URL. However, unlike the opera, you cannot import all the active tabs together.
However, Edge offers its own set of leaves. With a single click, you can open all the links in a single collection across different tabs, or in a completely different window. For additional intimacy, Edge also offers a one -click path to open all these links in incognito mode.

Another neat structure is that with a single click, you can also copy all the items to a collection on the local clipboard. Items are copied as they appear on the side panel. This includes titles, resource names, URL bonding and paintings, too.
You can even add custom notes on each reference collection in the future. The EDGE collections are synchronized on all your devices as long as you are registered with your Microsoft account. Another essential benefit is that Edge smoothly integrates copilot, opening doors for deep research questions.

This feature has saved me in some cases when I lost my tab groups and could not recover them. In Safari, the only recourse available to me was to dig in history and pass the tedious process of recovering a file at a time.
To perform my work on various platforms and equipment, collections and pinboard serve as a fantastic way to catalog my research and resume work at my pace. I wish Safari would offer a similar blow, and until that happens, I am not returning to the Apple browser for my daily work.
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