Horse

Closing tabs kills your tasks.

Those tabs aren’t clutter. They’re tasks you still mean to finish. Made for people with ADHD, Horse replaces tabs with Trails®, keeping every page connected to the page that led you there. Follow an idea. Get interrupted. Come back tomorrow. You can see exactly where you were and finish what you started.

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How Horse works

Follow the thought. Keep your place.

Start with one page. Open a link and Horse puts the new page directly beneath it. Keep going and a Trail grows down the screen: a vertical journey through your task, with every page still in order. Follow the thought wherever it leads without losing sight of why you opened the browser.

  1. Start with a question.

    Search or open any page. This becomes the beginning of your Trail.

  2. Open what looks useful.

    The next page appears directly beneath the one you were reading. You can always see what led you there.

  3. Follow your curiosity.

    Read and compare. The Trail grows downwards in the order you travelled.

  4. Jump anywhere.

    Move straight to any page in the Trail. Everything before and after it stays exactly where it belongs.

Begin immediately

There are no folders to prepare and no tab housekeeping before you begin. Browse normally; Horse builds the Trail as you go.

One Trail keeps it together

Your Trail keeps the browsing journey visible from the page open now to anything worth returning to later. There is only one place to look.

I have not clicked 'back' in a long time with Horse.
deskinvestor avatar@DeskInvestor, Financial Investor

Come back

Come back knowing what happens next.

Life will interrupt you. Horse leaves the whole Trail intact, so the next step is waiting for when you return.

A BACP-registered psychotherapist describes Horse as an ADHD accommodation, not a treatment. It asks less of your working memory by leaving the task in view, freeing more of your brilliant mind for work you care about.

Your working page stays beside its whole Trail, leaving one obvious place to begin again.

Open Horse. Know what’s next.

Open Horse again and your Trails return with the same pages in the same places.

Name the work

Give each Trail a name and an emoji, so one glance shows what the task is and where to begin.

Horse Browser is my quiet, safe internet where I am free to explore something new.
Beth McClelland avatarBeth McClelland, Content & Marketing, Capacities

Several projects

Give every project its own place.

When your day changes direction, collapse the Trails you were using and open the project that needs you now. Each project can have as many Trails as you need, and every page stays in place. Change course without holding the other project in your head.

Keep projects ready

Collapse one project when another needs you. Open it again later and every page is still in place.

Keep your research together

Every useful page stays with the question that led you to it, ready to compare instead of scattered across windows and tab groups.
I booked a hotel with 0 cognitive load despite having 15 tabs open. I've been talking about it to everyone.
Gregoire Jeanneau avatarGregoire Jeanneau, Co-founder, Pantry Studio

Every window

Two windows.
One set of Trails®.

View different pages from the same task side by side. Every window shows the same live Trails®, so opening or moving a page updates each sidebar automatically. Compare in one window while you work in another, with the complete Trail visible in both.

Different pages side by side, with the same live Trails keeping the thread clear.

One live sidebar, everywhere

Open or move a page in one window and every sidebar updates automatically. Collapse a Trail there and the other windows follow.

Different pages, same task

Keep two useful pages side by side without losing the thread between them.

Keyboard

Run Trails® from the keyboard.

With Horse’s keyboard shortcuts, you can move through your work as quickly as you can think. Select a Trail, collapse it, move it, or create another without reaching for the mouse or clicking in the wrong place. Your hands stay on the keyboard, so there is no faffing to break your rhythm.

Jump between Trails and open the next task from the keyboard. Collapse everything you are not using without touching the mouse.

Move through your Trails

command+shift+
Select the Trail above
command+shift+
Select the Trail below
command+shift+
Collapse the Trail, or move to its parent
command+shift+
Expand the Trail, or move into it
option+L
Collapse everything except your current Trail

Create and rearrange

command+shift+option+
Move the Trail up
command+shift+option+
Move the Trail down
command+option+T
Create a new subtrail
command+option+shift+T
Create a new sidetrail
command+T
Create a subtrail from a Trailhead

Markdown export

Take your Trails®
with you.

Drag a Trailhead out of Horse and the whole Trail becomes Markdown, ready to move into whichever app you use next. Pages stay in order, with every link still clickable. Folders remain nested, with each note beside the page it explains.

Horse helps you build the work without trapping it inside the browser.

Drag out a Trailhead. The complete Trail lands as Markdown.

Everything stays in order

The exported outline keeps the complete Trail in order, right down to its notes.

Plain text. Yours.

Keep it, edit it, send it, or move it somewhere new. Horse is useful. Your work is yours!

Rider reviews

Riders report back.

I love the hierarchical tab feature. Soooo much better implemented than all the extensions for Firefox or Chrome.
halloleo avatar
@halloleo
Programmer
Really happy with Horse Browser. After a couple of weeks it fully replaced Arc for me. I'm feeling more productive and organized with it.
linuz90 avatar
Fabrizio Rinaldi
Co-founder, Typefully
Horse Browser has been my daily driver since the day I downloaded it.
Kevin Humdrum avatar
Kevin Humdrum
Editor, The Independent Variable
I just look to the left and clearly see how I got here. It's lifted the mental load of organizing my research while I'm researching.
Max Roberts avatar
Max Roberts
Podcaster, Max Frequency
Horse Browser feels like a safe home for my interests and my passions, a quiet place I can return to when I want to dive deep.
Réka Goupil avatar
Réka Goupil
@rekawrites
This is the first time I paid for a browser, and I do not regret a single dollar of it.
Philipp Temmel avatar
Philipp Temmel
@creativerly

Try Horse

Put Horse to work.

Horse is free to try for 14 days. Choose something you genuinely want to finish, whether it’s booking a trip or completing the admin you’ve been avoiding, and start it in Horse. Work on the task and follow the detours. Then close the laptop when you’re done for the day.

Open Horse the next day. The whole Trail is waiting in the same order, so you can carry on without hunting for your place. See the difference it can make.

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