2d ago

Got my open tabs down from 300+ to 65.

Deleted many irrelevant tabs saved a year ago that are now irrelevant to me, read the ones that are still relevant. I hope to pare it down to under 10! My computer tabs are nowhere near this much, always under 10.

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Genuine question... Why don't you just use bookmarks?
- The open tabs are the evaluation zone, waiting to see if they deserve to be bookmarked. How would I know if I want to bookmark them if I've opened them but never looked at them yet?
  
  just categorize them into folders, tree-style, regardless of whether you’ll look at them.
- I thought the exact same thing as you for the longest time! I still feel the same way when it comes to computer tabs. And then I let the thing @grue@lemmy.world said in reply to the same question above happen…
  I actually did try to use bookmarks far before this happened, back when I had never had so many tabs. I never actually touched those bookmarks. I learned from this experience have a horrible tendency to bookmark or mark for later, and never actually touch what I marked for later. Leaving as an open tab has shown me it will at least get dealt with eventually. And on my computer, leaving as an open tab gives me a mental pressure to deal with it quickly that leaving it as an open tab on my phone just does not do. Bookmarks just get neglected forever.
- i have been bookmarking things for decades and i never go back and use them they just fade away
Call me a boomer or whatever, but I just don't get it. How do you even end up with more than a dozen or so tabs open at once? Do you just not use bookmarks at all?
- "Open in new tab" all the interesting links on a page, intending to read them next.
  Don't get to them immediately.
  Start reading some other unrelated page.
  Repeat.
- I thought the exact same thing as you for the longest time! I still feel the same way when it comes to computer tabs. And then I let the thing the other commenter said happen…
  I also have a horrible tendency to bookmark or mark for later, and never actually touch what I marked for later. Leaving as an open tab has shown me it will at least get dealt with eventually.
Well done! May the under 100 tabs life be long and peaceful
But but... you might need them still!
My wife doesn't have a tab counter anymore. It just says: ∞
For real.
I hope to pare it down to under 10!
10 factorial, i.e. 3,628,800? Sounds tough (not sure I could manage it myself), but I have faith in you!
(Seriously though, my OneTab list has 1736 tabs in it, and that's not counting the ones in a different browser profile. Send help.)
Have you tried clicking the little little [x] in the corner? It really speeds things up…
I always make sure to close all tabs so that it doesn't get out of control. Bookmarks are your friend.
Congrats though! That's an accomplishment!
300+ is insane, good job.
My rule is that I can't have any tabs off view on a scroll bar (I use vertical icons on Librewolf) but the different scaling on laptop/monitor screen/TV means it's different on every screen
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Tabs and camera roll screenshots, the mark of an intellectuals note taking.
I close the whole browser after I'm done using my computer and close all tabs on my phone when there's too many (over 15 or so)
300+? Thems baby numbers. I have over 2000 on just a single Firefox window. I have 5 instances...
Be crazy, close them all, clear your history and start fresh! Bonus points if you do it every day, even better set your browser to do it for you automatically when you close it.
I had to trim down safari on my phone, it maxes at 500. I cut it down to the low 300s for a week or so.
- Are you sure? I’m pretty sure I’ve had more than 500.
  
  When I hit 500 and would open a link from email or other app it would open in the first tab, rather than opening a new tab at the end of my list of tabs.

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