Station

I think this could be very good app with some improvements. However I do have couple of issues at the moment.

1. App bugs - I think I force restarted session 10+ times in one week. Sometimes apps won't load when you first add them, sometimes you'll get logged out of apps for no reason, and sometimes certain links that open in a new window just won't work.

For example, I got logged out of my Office365 session, and it required me to delete the app and add it again. In the same app, replies to calendar invites also don't work. Adding both Salesforce and HelpScount required restarts.

2. One of my biggest issues is that it took me ages to figure out how to open a "new tab" of a specific app so that I could save it as a bookmark (which I really like as a functionality). To do this you need to right-click a link in your app and select "Open in new tab" (so essentially this works like a browser), but the tabs themselves are hidden in the dock which only appears once you hover a mouse over an app icon. My intuitive feeling was that I'm supposed to do this from the dock, given that by default you don't see the open tabs, so maybe that's just me.

Combine that with the fact that you can't open the dock with a keyboard shortcut, or that you also can't pin it so that it's always open, and I think it loses a lot of its appeal.

I'll try using it again in a few months to see if there's any improvements.

I’ve tried Station for a couple of days and so far I don’t see it working for me better than the browser.

1. Putting apps to sleep is actually a major con for me.

- Chat apps - Hangouts, Telegram, Whatsapp - when they go to sleep you don’t get any notification about new messages. Which kind of kills the whole purpose of chat apps.

- Waking up an app takes longer than switching to an open loaded tab in browser.

2. Useless badge count.

I’m not a “zero inbox” person. So I have about couple of hundreds of unreads in my Gmail inbox. So now Station badge shows 99+. And this makes it useless for me.

3. Inability to use browser extensions.

I have several Chrome extensions that I rely on - like Streak for Gmail. And so switching to Station I just lose features that are important to me.

4. No advantages over pinned Chrome tabs and bookmarks.

I usually keep 3-5 apps I use most often used apps pinned in Chrome. And other useful apps just a click away in bookmarks. And I just don’t see how using Station is better.