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Other people's computer usage is weird to me.
I just bookmark stuff if I think I'll need it later, and I usually don't even do that. Otherwise, every browser window is closed at the end of the session.
People not understanding that we understand bookmarks exist is weird to me.
For me it's a suspected ADHD thing. If I make a bookmark:
- I have to context-switch into "cleaning up" mode. Leaving a tab open is not distracting, having to name it and categorize it is.
- Bookmarks are virtual drawers. Anything I put in a drawer might as well be in a cave in Alaska guarded by a troll as far as my brain is concerned. If I intend to look at this in the next 2-3 weeks, I keep the tab open because it's a virtual reminder I've not yet done the thing.
- Yes, I've got tabs open from over a year ago. Those ones don't serve a purpose, I'll get around to cleaning up... eventually.
Honestly if I was forced to close my browser sessions at the end of the work day, not joke, not an exaggeration, I'd switch jobs. I'm working on too many different complex things to have to rebuild my mental model of where everything was at from scratch every morning. I would not get anything done.
Tab groups is my new compromise for this 👌
Opera is such a trailblazer on that front! Clearly I'm not the target audience but I really appreciate them acknowledging all the crazy people put there with hundreds of tabs.
This probably won't help with the first point but you can hit Ctrl+d I think, or click the star, and it'll just bookmark it with a default name (page title) and location, I think. I've definitely bookmarked things by accident somehow.
I don't believe I have ADHD so I can't really relate to it. My original post wasn't meant to be like a condemnation - weird isn't always bad. Just different.
It's mildly interesting that you wouldn't get anything done, but I feel like if I had to work like you I wouldn't get anything done. Trying to deal with all those tabs would be a big distraction to me. Funny how different folks can be.
Yeah it's Ctrl+D. I do use bookmarks on occasion (especially for stupid websites with non-intuitive URLs and page titles I can't easily find by typing in the omnibar), but not as a way to organize my work.
The reason I mention ADHD for this in particular is I saw a home organization tip for ADHD that I related strongly to: ADHD brains really benefit from having everything spread out on a table, visible and immediately available. Trying to force an ADHD person to constantly put things away is super counter-productive even if it's apparently good advice for neurotypical folk. Though of course ADHD is not an excuse not to clear the messy table once the project is finished.
My computer desktop follows the same principle. I'll have as many workspaces as I do ongoing projects, and every workspace has all the tools I need open. And the good news is it's much harder to run out of virtual space than it is to run out of space on a real table.
Certainly may be worth looking into, and seeing about a diagnosis. I was diagnosed recently, at 40, and so much of my life makes sense now lmao.
What you mention here is definitely a trait for sure, I have this issue. ofc it means my workspaces are usually terribly cluttered lmao. If something goes in a drawer/cupboard (cabinet in US?) it might aswell not exist until i randomly find it again.
Well, what if you think you don't need it later, but you do? I don't trust my own judgement here!
Usually the browser history, or I remember enough to find it again.
Admittedly, a couple times I haven't been able to find a particular meme or whatever, but it's never been important stuff.
This is why you keep a several hundred megabytes history file set to remember "forever"
Ah, but that's for the things of which I remember later than I need them. Tabs are for the things I need later, except that I've later forgotten that I need them. Very important, obviously.