What do you guys do with so many tabs? I’m genuinely interested.
I’ve always been an “inbox zero” kind of guy, and treat my inbox and tab list much like the stack in a programming language: they contain my current “work”, and are empty once I’m done. Not as a matter of discipline, you understand, but just because that’s how my brain works.
I do keep an infinite backlog in a bookmark aggregator (pinboard, raindrop), though. Is that what you use tabs for? How do you deal with your mobile browser? Di you sync all those tabs between devices? How do you search them or categorize them?
(I’m not making fun of you, nor am I trying to be snarky. I’m honestly interested.)
Speaking only for myself (no idea of the situation(s) of the others), with a few exceptions only my pinned tabs are in common between different machines. I also use another desktop for client work, and it has a paltry 909 tabs. Four other machines I use less often have clean browsers.
How do I accumulate tabs like that? Basically, it’s a result of me being overloaded and having to juggle in parallel much more work than I can handle. I’m currently having to be five people, and every bit of research spawns tens or hundreds of tabs. Whenever I finish something, a pile of tabs go away, but I have a constant net inflow of work, so they keep accumulating.
For me It’s more of an addiction or mental problem thing. I open a few tabs of articles or things I want to check out, but then never do. You could say I really don’t need them anymore but while it’s easy to rationalize, the idea that I might need/want to see/read it is high and it prevents me from closing them. In the end I barely check anything out, or gain something out of one of the pages I do check out , so it’s just a real mental barrier going on.
Yeah, similar for me. Although I do try to have the occasional Culling Round, where I either just close it because it’s been sitting there for half a year and I’m realistically not going to do anything with it, or I move it to the notes in SilverBullet, or I go and write the blog post I was thinking of when keeping that tab around.
For some reason, the amount of tabs on the desktop never gets too bad, but on mobile it’s been 100+, probably because I “discover” a lot while on mobile, and having a ton of tabs open doesn’t show as clearly as on a desktop. It’s just a number (that’ll eventually just change to ∞, at least on Fennec), but it doesn’t take up more space.
Impressive! Mine are back up to 130, after cutting them on the laptop to about 50, because I consolidated the ones on my phone. Only problem is I reduced them by adding them to my Kobo e-reader via Instapaper so I’ve really just moved the problem elsewhere
These are just personal tabs, though. I have grouped tabs for each work project and those are probably in the thousands. I have just gone through and deleted a bunch of groups for projects that are done but I do worry that something will come up and I’ll have lost something relevant.
I just put such links into my bookmark manager, which is not so much managing them, as keeping an infinite backlog of them (currently sitting at 16K entries from the last 14 years).
Occasionally, on a lazy Sunday for example, I’ll pull up the backlog and read a few articles. Whatever is read goes into a different bin in the bookmark manager, such that the infinite backlog is always full of interesting stuff whenever I need it. That “read” bin is also occasionally useful when I’m trying to remember where I read something.
Of course I’m under no illusion that I’ll ever actually read all the backlog. But I know it’ll be there for me whenever I’m in the mood.
That makes a lot of sense, clears the mind of the clutter but still keeps it for later. Sorry if you posted it before but: what software do you use to keep your bookmarks?
For tabs in Firefox, I use the built-in vertical tab mode with an extension called “Auto Tab Groups” that automatically groups tabs by domain, which often makes it much easier for me to find the tabs I am looking for.
“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”
I’m glad I don’t use Google Photos then… I wonder if you can truly disable it on Pixel phones. If not, I have pretty much lost interest in owning one. Pixels are otherwise pretty cool, but I think I’ll keep my 6 y.o. Xiaomi for now.
Just imported a batch of photos and was amazed at the buttery smooth contrast they had with my AgX defaults…to then realize that dt has reverted to “scene referred sigmoid” in the settings. Leading to Sigmoids Scene Referred default and Kofas Sigmoid-Matched-AgX-Preset being applied. The setting reverted without my input and the great colours and contrasts are the product of the double-tonemapper-whammy. Kinda conflicted on where to go from here .
I feel insufficient. I sync phone / desktop bookmarks but not tabs. I always close them when done and currently have four open tabs on my desktop. Bookmarks? A few more, slightly under 3k.
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I sync phone / desktop bookmarks but not tabs. I always close them when done and currently have four open tabs on my desktop. Bookmarks? A few more, slightly under 3k.