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The administration interface is Web-based, and he finds having it in an SSB makes for a smoother experience than letting it get mixed up with the rest of his browser tabs. Since the start of the pandemic, David’s company has used the Whova event management platform for online and in-person conferences.I wonder if that’s because YouTube is something you’re more likely to use opportunistically (“look, a cat video!”), rather than intentionally (“time to watch The Crown”).

Breaking Netflix out into a standalone app “just feels right,” David said, and although he has another SSB for YouTube, he doesn’t use it as much.

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He relies on the free Wave accounting package and appreciates how turning it into an app lets him focus on financial work without being distracted by other tabs.David Landes is an enthusiastic Coherence X user who regularly works with SSBs, and he provided these examples: Unsurprisingly, the most common case studies revolved around encapsulating a highly focused website into an SSB that acts like a native app. He did, and I’d like to share ideas I’ve distilled from them about how you might improve your productivity by turning a website into an app with Coherence X or another site-specific browser. Once I made the acquaintance of BZG’s Binyamin Goldman, I asked him if he had any case studies from his users that might help me-and perhaps you-glean inspiration from how others use site-specific browsers. Every day, I end up with a silly number of tabs open to TidBITS articles, TidBITS Talk posts, WordPress admin pages, and more, and they clutter up my browser terribly. However, when my activity is more general-I do many different things on my various TidBITS sites-I haven’t been able to break free from the default browser mindset, even though I’d like to. If it looks a lot like Brave, that’s the point. In fact, immediately after typing those words, I made a tabbed SSB for Mastodon’s Web client (a tabbed SSB ensures that I can follow links within the app). Upon reflection, SSBs work best for me if the site has a single unified function-just like an app. I’ve tried to turn a few other sites into site-specific browsers-including TidBITS and TidBITS Talk-but they haven’t stuck. My use of Coherence X beyond Google Docs is largely limited to another SSB that brings together tabs for iStock Photo, Unsplash, Pexels, and other sites I use to find royalty-free images for my TidBITS Content Network articles.

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I’ve relied on Coherence X for the past few years because it offers the best combination of features for my heavy use of Google Docs (see “ The Best Mac Site-Specific Browser for Google Docs,” 18 June 2021). (BZG also makes Unite, another site-specific browser app that relies on WebKit instead of the Chromium engine underneath Coherence X, and Aerate, a lossless image compression utility.)

A site-specific browser (SSB) lets you effectively turn any website into a standalone app that appears in your Dock and works almost like a native Mac app. We’ve picked up a new TidBITS sponsor for the next few issues: BZG, makers of the site-specific browser app Coherence X. Site-Specific Browser Examples from TidBITS Sponsor Coherence X #1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebook.#1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in Ventura.#1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.#1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials.#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD.