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I’ve slowly trained myself to adopt some new digital habits, but boy, it’s not always easy!
Years ago, I mapped the Action button on my iPhone to launch the flashlight. But, like a pigeon, I was so accustomed to the software button on the Home Screen, I always used that instead.
Same with Camera Control: I was so used to launching the camera from the Home Screen icon, I never trained myself to utilize the hardware button.
The only way to change my habits was to remove those two software buttons from my Home Screen. Once I did that, it didn’t take me long to get used to the new way.
Now I’m really looking forward to ditching one of my worst digital habits ever: having hundreds of open browser tabs all the time.
I often open new tabs to research this or that, and I keep them open to remind myself when I leave something unfinished. It’s like a half-assed Reminders system, without the useful stuff like due dates or notifications.
But I can see that a design change in the new Safari’s Reading List feature will immediately help me ditch that bad old habit.
And there’s another change that sounds positively insane: You can vibe-code your own Safari extensions. I’m definitely going to re-create the one in our post because it’ll be handy for me, too.
In fact, there’s a bunch of great new stuff coming in Safari — page-change notifications will be very handy, too.
This is one of those rare posts where all the new features are hits — not just one or two!
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