Doublestitch - A Simpler and Cleaner Pocket for Firefox
I love Pocket and I love Firefox.
But two things were driving me batty about the Pocket feature built into Firefox:
- The design of the popup experience when you save a page to Pocket is... unfortunate. It stays up far too long, and it doesn't go away when you switch tabs. Yeah, it stays open for a given URL even when you're on a tab with a completely different URL! But regardless of whether you think that's as crazy as I do, I never want to add tags so just don't need it at all.
- The Pocket toolbar button doesn't indicate whether you've already saved the page or not. You have to click the button to figure it out. Now this might not be a problem for everyone. But the way I use my browser can best be described as "tabsplosion". I don't know when or where these tabs come from, or how they get there, or whether I saved it already or not. So this tiny piece of ambient visual signal would be useful for me.
So I took a couple of hours over the last few evenings and scratched the itch. I made a Firefox add-on which does the following:
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Adds a new Pocket button to the toolbar. (You can remove the old one by right-clicking it and choosing "Remove from Toolbar"). Mine is red. I want to make one that has nice gold double-stitching on it...
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The new button shows a check mark badge when the page is already saved.
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You can click the button to either add or remove the page from Pocket.
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No popup.
That's it. Simple, clear and out of your way.
INSTALL HERE (WARNING: Experimental side-project software. You've been warned.)
Source code: https://github.com/autonome/doublestitch
If you try it out, let me know if you find any bugs or have any ideas for improvements!