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What do you guys do with so many tabs? I usually close mine if I get more than 7 or 8
In my case, ADHD, curiosity, and anxiety about not being able to find something again if I need it later.
I never said it was RATIONAL behavior π
Yep, overcoming this and realizing I can almost always find what I found before, very easily, cured me of this. And even when it takes a bit of effort to search, it's just a few minutes until I stumble on it again. Plus sometimes I come across other neat stuff while searching!
Try it, you might like it!
That's what bookmarks are for. And even if the webpage gets removed on the server you often can find it on archive.org . Heck if you really wanna make sure you can load the page later your can save the webpage locally onto your device
Bookmarks!
Don't even get me STARTED on the state of my bookmarks π
I have 25 year old bookmarks for sites that haven't existed in almost that long. I can't bring myself to delete them. I have bookmark nostalgia. :|
I end up reading Wikipedia or TVTropes (or everything2, or Reddit threads or Wookiepedia or ancient forums), and then each tab means that I open several more. I have social media posts open that I want to write arguments against later, articles that I might use in writing those argumentsβ¦
My phone is usually at the cap of 500. Between Vivaldi and Firefox my computer probably in the thousands.
I tried using βPocketβ to keep track of interesting articles instead, but it didnβt match my flow.
It is hyperlexia and ADHD. I similarly own probably ~1000 or so books.
500?! You're wild!
I have all sorts of projects and tasks I jump between depending on my ever shifting priorities. And some projects of mine can spawn 20+ tabs on their own.
I have hundreds of tabs open at any given time
Same here, often 20+ tabs per client, and sometimes working for 6-8 clients at a time. Plus a tab of my own for music/social/news/sport.
I have lots of different things I'm doing, not simultaneously but all of them regularly.
I have a hobby for which im using ~5-10 different sites regularly. And another hobby with ~3-5 sites.
Then I have a business where I keep all relevant tabs open, which are quite a few as well. Then all the general stuff (emails etc). And I probably still forgot something.
I'm still far away from the 100s, but I do keep around 20-30 tabs open all the time, and that doesn't include any temporary tabs that I do close right after using it. I have them all sorted and separated using Firefox' containers feature though.
Yes I could work with bookmarks too, but that has a few downsides. For example, for my business I am working with different Google drive folders for each project. It would be annoying to keep the bookmarks up to date or to navigate to the relevant folder each time when I can just leave the tab open and continue where I left off. Another example is one of my hobbies where I use the same 10 sites every time, so I'd have to open 10 sites when I do the hobby and then close them when I'm done, which seems redundant to me for just the benefit of not having tabs open I'm not using at the moment.
So ultimately, to me it's way easier to have an overview of 30 open tabs than managing endless bookmarks that I need to keep up to date.
What I would prefer is a feature where I can have different environments and all tabs of that environment open and close automatically. So I say I want the environment "work" and my 10 work tabs open, then I work, then I switch the environment profile and all current work tabs' updated URLs get saved and the other environment's tabs open. If there's anything like that I'd be thankful for a recommendation.
That's the only way I see me not having dozens of tabs open all the time honestly.
Orion browser has this. https://blog.kagi.com/orion-features
But also I think you can accomplish the same with Sidebery on Firefox.
Thank you! I don't have apple devices but Sideberry comes very close to what I'm looking for, I think it will help me organize my tabs.
somebody below linked https://www.one-tab.com/ which I'd never heard of. it also might be what you want.