I used to use bookmarks (at home). Now I just keep tabs open.
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From some comments I've seen about this back on Reddit, it seems like some people don't know about bookmarks.
But also professionals, like a lot of Lemmings, tend to keep a lot of tabs open for references or other material they need to check often and quickly. Faster to leave tabs open than reopening the page every time you need to check something on it.
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My friend has ADHD and 300 tabs. I'm pretty sure they are related.
I don't save tabs between sessions because of my ADHD. Otherwise I'd drown in them. This way I'm forced to use bookmarks for things I really need and the useless clutter gets removed once I close my browser.
I can almost never find things in my browser history. I keep windows with relevant tabs open on separate workspaces.
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I am surprised by all the ADHD responses. I have ADHD and being able to see all the tabs I'm not using makes me anxious. I have to close them. If I really need them, I move them to a separate window and pretend it's not there.
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I have 2 or 3 open at once at most. If I can't remember what it's for, it gets closed. And if I need to find it again, searching my history is easier than searching my open tabs
I just can't handle tab frenzy
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I hate the default way most browsers handle tabs. Moved over to this setup years ago and I'm definitely never going back.
Firefox plus either Sideberry or Tree Style Tabs - both will organize your tabs vertically along the side of the window in a tree format. Follow a link in a new tab, it opens up as a new branch under the current one.
Pair that with Auto Tab Discard to keep memory usage down, and something like Open Link with New Tab to automatically open links across domains in a new child tab.
Now I tend to just collapse trees of related tabs and further organize broad related subjects in windows.
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Because, shockingly, not everyone sees the world the way you do.
Why do people consider the way others do things as flawed, or pathologize the behaviours of others?
Also, browser history is awful.
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I do for work because I usually have to recall information and don’t want to look it back up every time.
Pro tip: Auto-unloading the tabs (via extensions) certainly helps retain memory.
You know every modern browser has bookmarks, and I think all of them have a bookmark toolbar, and the ability to organize bookmarks into folders....
right?
You know every modern browser has bookmarks, and I think all of them have a bookmark toolbar, and the ability to organize bookmarks into folders....
I’m fully aware, however, I am not about to start bookmarking job’s labelled as #20000 -> 50000 and all their PDF’s, documents an such. Some jobs last 2+ years, like bridge projects, whereas other last a couple weeks to a month, easier to just leave tabs open for what I am focusing on within that current month.
Edit: If I really wanted to do that I could just self-host a bookmarking service that way bookmarks stay centralized, but then I’m taking work home, so screw that.
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Yeah, but they you gotta organize it, and garden it, and maintain it. Or it's just another useless dump of probably useless information. This can be difficult for folks with ADHD and similar.
Not to mention that many tabs are transient, they are not meant to be permanent. Making them permanent means they are out of sight out of mind and will pile up even more
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I easily hit 500+ tabs, usually against 1000 or so, and usually spread around over 40 windows on 4 different desktops, so it's fairly wellp organized as all tabs in a window are about the same subject.
Most auto close after about 15 mins to spare resources because websites these days just are insanely heavy. I used to do 2000 sites with maybe 32GB mem, now I need a tab auto closer to be able to manage half of that.
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Imagine you start researching something else before you've had the opportunity to finish your last. I have 10-20 tabs open for each of several in progress projects on my tablet
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They use to be new window (not like a pop up, but a new window). Today every new page or "new window" becomes a new tab.
And before you know it, you have dozens of tabs open. But no way you use to have 30 different windows open, since that would drive you crazy with alt+tab.
So the bar is low and it's easy to keep them open as well. So people will.
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