Jesus, save that shit to disk and release your browser from this cache hell.
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Why do these people not use bookmarks?
I sometimes have like 20 tabs open, but half of them are pinned which I use most of the time, and the rest is current stuff that I close when I am done with them.
Bookmarking and sorting 7k tabs sounds awful.
There are three types of tab,
1: tabs I absolutely need to see again and know I never will if I bookmark them, because I never go into my bookmarks.
2: tabs that don't need to be bookmarked at all because I never need to see them again I just got distracted and didn't close them or thought I'd be interested in them later but then wasn't.
3: tabs pertaining to one of the seven projects I'm currently actively working on simultaneously.
Bookmarks solve nothing.
My browser deletes open tabs when closing. Otherwise I would drown in chaos.
Oh she might be me.
It is with great grievance that I had to put an end to this and install a plugin that closes the oldest one when I get over 15 (Limit Tabs). (Actually, that is only great, unless I'm in a shopping decision frenzy and actually need this.)
This is one thing that makes me think mine is AuDHD, not just ADHD (waiting for an autism assessment now).
I occasionally pin important tabs, or use Tab Groups, but mostly I obsessively sort everything into Collections and start fresh every time. I can't stand digital clutter. Messy Desktops drive me mad, too.
And yet my IRL world is disorganisation and chaos. 😬
Same, clean slate looks so good. I look things up and sort them into order before they grow into unholy mess.
When I switched to Ubuntu I wrestled with whether or not to have the home folder on the desktop (I kept it). On my laptop I run Mint and it’s a completely clean desktop. Same with my iPhone (I archived all my apps).
I hate digital clutter and regularly clear out old data I don't want anymore. My browser is set to clear everything when I close it. If I find something useful, I bookmark it. Once in a while I'll sort out any unsorted saved bookmarks and make a backup of the cleaned up list.
I'm also similar in real life though. I'm quite minimal and prefer only to have what is useful or meaningful to me.
My digital life and personal life are very similar.
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If it is important and you don't need it right now, use a bookmark and close that tab. Bookmarks have been around for literal decades now in browsers.
In my experience the bookmark button is essentially the, 'This is interesting and I'll check this out later but never really will' button.
Now, I have a thousand unsorted bookmarks that I am ashamed to look at and half of them are decade old dead links.
Everyone is different, though. A sane person could categorize different bookmarks into relevant sub folders and review/clean them out monthly.
I'm not that person.
How is it any different than a tab, other than the fact that it isn't loaded into your RAM or whatever? Do you really believe this person needs tab # 6546?
Just use a bookmarks bar, and it even looks almost identical.
Double click that button and sort your bookmarks into folders
There should be a 404 checker built into bookmarks. Once a year run a quick scan.
The semi-logical reason that I leave so many tabs open, is that I do need/want the tab now, or in the near future, and keeping it in a tab is sort of like a sticky note to remind myself to do it. It rarely works though and just contributes to a growing sense of anxiety as I'm constantly stared down by a huge row of "to-dos"
So bookmark it in a check back later folder to switch your anxiety to the folder, at least its safe if you back it up.
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There is an extension to automatically backup open tabs and restore them for the hardcore tabbers.
Remember the 3-2-1 rule for backups of record breaking sessions.
Why don't y'all just use bookmarks or even just go back thru the homepage sometimes? Managing tons of stale tabs can't be that much easier?
bookmarks are for repeated access, tabs are for one-time things that you're going to get to any day now
bookmark it in the temporary todo folder.
having 7k+ bookmarks is more manageable than 7k+ browser tabs.
Loading up the same tab each day is not repeated use? And you can also have folders in bookmarks. Ctrl+B Ctrl+W Bookmark added to last save location and tab closed.
if you don't click them, they don't load. and if i can't see the thing i'll forget about it.
How many can you see even? 20 or maybe 30 if only the icons load?
Keeping this many of anything in working memory is also not possible without forgetting.
Definitely not hundreds so the point about visibility is kind of mute.
The lengths people will go to not use bookmarks...
These are bookmarks with extra steps!
no, fewer steps. these auto-arrange themselves into hierarchies based on browsing history, meaning you always have context for why a page was opened.
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Tree style tabs and unloaded tabs has it easier than bookmarking imo It's like I can navigate all my bookmarks spatially, activating any of them rather rhan navigating through the ui to see which link was which
My Firefox starts to get grumpy once I get to over 1000 tabs
People should look into tab groups. Firefox has a tab grouping feature built-in now but this is a plugin that is a bit more feature-full.
So I have tab groups for different dev projects, games, podcasts, shows, music, etc. It reduces the size of each tab group which makes it easier to actually return to the important stuff and close the stuff that doesn't matter.
I'd recommend using bookmarks instead. There is absolutely no way where you need thousands at the same time. Save them in a logical folder structure instead!
The best of both worlds is the tree style tabs plug in. Though I do wish it was a core feature so I could get tab grouping and hide the top tab bar.
You can, but I find that if I have the tabs there, I use them or close them. I don't use bookmarks after I make them, so they just acrue. You're right I don't need 7000 open tabs, just like I don't need 7000 bookmarks. Part of the point of tab groups is you can more easily determine what tabs aren't relevant and get rid of them, so you don't wind up with thousands to start with.
If they're open as tabs, even in groups, I'm incentivised to close them when they're no longer relevant. For longer term notes I use a note-taking app that doesn't rely on my browser or computer staying the same. I don't like using a browser for that because it's just not a good tool for it.
tree style tab or sidebery
bonus, with sidebery you also have panels, to add another level of classification. each panel can have it's own pinned tabs.
What I can say for sure is that I have not seen 7500 pages on the internet in the past two years that I want to visit again.
This is relatable even if I don't have this specific issue, but I am curious what people are saving.on their emotional support tab groups.
I'd wager that if I actually kept every tab I opened to get to later since like, StumbleUpon, and actually resolved to get to them, that'd be it for me. I would probably have enough content to occupy the rest of my natural life without any leftover free time.
once i get more tabs than i can easily see on my screen, i start getting stressed out...
I yeet tabs all the time. Figure I will find it again if xenu wills it.
Closing a tab requires that I apply immediate effort in deciding that I'm never going down this path ever again till the end of time, and yet I risk future regret if I ever want to reference a closed tab. So much effort for so little gain - tidiness for the sake of it. If you become cool with clutter, then these open tabs are different pieces that help understand and solve bigger picture problems.
Across all my machines and browsers, I think I might have over 10k tabs that I've opened but never closed.
There's History.
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Could not relate more 🤚🙂↕️
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