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SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I regularly sit at anywhere from a thousand to several thousand tabs on my desktop browser. I have a tab-counter extension.

I use tree-style tabs. I use this to organize thoughts into groups, or families, hierarchically, with varying levels and numbers of tabs, depending on topic and my interest.

Most tabs are unloaded. I do close and reopen my browser regularly, and restart my pc. I just have the browser remember the tabs in it.

I do occasionally revisit and complete families of tabs. Sometimes I’ll queue up loads of things to read on a subject, so that nothing ever has to load or reload.

Tabs are like a working space to me, kind of like working memory in your brain.

Sometimes I’ll load in several searches at once.

I have ADHD.

I am also a very passionate and try to be a very thorough person.

I generally do things top-down when researching, but also casually search.

I have waves of purging, myself, but also will randomly close tabs or trees if they are complete or exhausted.

Like once a year or so, the browser has a stroke and decides to flush everything away and I’m sad for a couple weeks.

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Luckaneer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This really resonates with me. At least in the sense I operate like this without the tree structure but would vastly benefit from it. If you don’t mind my asking, what browser and extensions do you use?

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- SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Firefox and piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_treestyletab.html.en That’s the creators page, but it’s also on the Mozilla site.
  
  I use a bunch of other stuff too, that synergizes and whatnot, but that’s the tree style tabs that I’ve been using since like 2011. I’ve also been telling people that this is the future the entire time, and nobody ever believes me. But that’s fine, it’s going to be an inevitable option. But maybe at this rate, the internet will die before people adopt tree tabs hahaha.
  
  If you do use that extension, I suggest going through the options, as it’s pretty well fleshed out. An option that makes a big difference to me is the the theme or whatever, to clearly see the boxes around each tab, and therefore the indentation. Another meaningful option is the tree behavior that auto-collapses the tree is you open a new one - I don’t like that, and prefer the trees stay option and me in control. But to each their own. After all, this is all just tools for you to optimize and explore.
  
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twen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This is incredible what you do ! I also saves some webpage thata are important to me, but still have the URL saved in my booksmarks, as duplicate entry if you like.

Because they are important, I have an organised collection of bookmarks which can be saved and archived outside the browser. A bookmark list is just a structured html page that any browser can export, import and share, unlike tabs. I have lot of themed bookmarks folder, for the future.

With so much work to organise your tabs, why make you not use bookmarks instead ? Do you have a lot of RAM and SSD on your computer to save all your tabs ? Your browser needs to keep a copy in RAM for you. The more tabs, the slower your browser runs.

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TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That was a really interesting chapter. I don’t mind a wall of text like this.

Since you’re using tree-style tabs, you can actually keep things organized. This thread has turned out to be very educational to me. I didn’t really know ADHD could be involved in this, let alone that it could produce such a variety of different results when it comes to tab usage.

Anyway, tabs have a tendency to disappear sooner or later, and that’s a real problem. In this thread, I’ve found some interesting tools like Raindrop. I get the feeling you might appreciate it. I’m still testing it myself, but so far it seems like solution for that problem. I’ve also quickly tested OneTab, but I don’t really know how permanent that storage option is in the long run.

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