I use different web sites in different ways

There's sites like news sites or Wikipedia that feel more "webby" and then there's other sites like Trello, Google Play Music, Google Keep that I use more like regular applications.

I recently started using Chrome's feature that creates "desktop" applications out of sites to use these app-like sites as actual apps.

In Chrome, if you click the 3 dot menu > More tools > Add to desktop, Chrome will add a shortcut on your desktop that opens the current site in its own window that doesn't look like a browser at all. It looks like a desktop app.

I find it a useful mental model and organizational tool to separate my apps and websites in this manner. Maybe you will too.

  1. Cool – thanks for sharing!

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