Dia - Chat with your Tabs

How the Dia Browser Uses AI to Transform Tab Management and Productivity 🚀

Hi!

Welcome to the first issue of OmarKnowsAI. I’m Omar, and I’ve been writing on a blog since 1996. I’m the author of OmarKnows, an opinionated product review newsletter. I’m in love with AI productivity and I feel like for the past 2 years I’ve been playing the role of a kid in a big toy store. We are in the midst of a productivity renaissance.

I have a lot that I want to share, and I’m going to do that here. My plan is to push out short articles whenever I can find a few minutes. My goal is to document what tools I’m using and what I am learning or what they have done for me.

This period of time reminds me of the Web 2.0 era where productivity tools arrived on our phones with cloud based services and we slowly got faster and more capable mobile devices. This feels similar.

So with that, let’s dive in with the first product I’m going to talk about: Dia.

-Omar

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Dia

Dia is a new web browser from http://thebrowser.company. They used to make a product called Arc, which was another web browser. I never built any strong habits around using - but I was curious to see what they are doing with Dia.

The one liner for Dia is “Chat with your Tabs”. And this made immediate sense to me. Because at this exact moment I have 11 tabs opened in Safari. These are all tabs for products I intend to buy in a few weeks. And I was about to copy and paste each tab into ChatGPT to ask it to create a summary for me of all the products, cost and links so that I can purchase them later on.

So I gave this job to Dia, and here is what it looks like:

As you can see, I was able to invoke one of the three skills in Dia: Chat, Write and Code. I chose /Write and then added all the tabs as “grounding” or “context” and it created a nice markdown file for me.

Here is a quick video so you can see how this feels.

I’m excited to play around with this more!

Oh, here is another cool use case - creating a subtitle for this post