Declare tab bankruptcy and start a new tab life
How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through?
Submitted 20 hours ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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Feyd@programming.dev 19 hours ago
aramis87@fedia.io 16 hours ago
I miss my old phone and my old PC, with their limited memory. Every so often, my browser would crash under the weight of the tabs, and refuse to re-open unless I agreed to discard them all ...
url@feddit.fr 19 hours ago
I don’t keep tabs open. I close them as soon as I’m done
gkaklas@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
- Articles: I save them to my wallabag instance
- Videos: I use metube to download them so I can see them later
- Interesting sites: bookmark them using tags so I can easily find them later; sync them to linkwarden so they’re also archived and searcheable
- The rest are more or less leftovers from tasks I’ve probably stopped working on, so I try to close them (btw tree tabs helps detect such groups of tabs)
- (I still end up with many tabs, but at least it’s not as bad as before I did the above 😅)
Legwarmer1411@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Is tree tabs a plugin? Would you mind sharing which one it is?
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Right click, ‘close all’. If they were important you would have looked at them already.
aramis87@fedia.io 16 hours ago
Make a mental commitment to spend at least 30 minutes going through tabs.
Scroll through all of them. If any are news articles and that news has been moved on from or it just makes me angry, close the tab. If it's a news article but it's more of an "interesting read" thing and I'm still interested, keep it.
Keep scrolling. If you find several tabs relating to the same or similar concepts, move them next to each other; that gives more weight to following through on that group.
If it was a "yes, I'd like to buy this but my card isn't convenient" tab, if I'm still interested in it, get my card and order it. (I deliberately don't store my card, to impede impulse buying.)
If it's something I was researching (usually something I'm interested in buying) and I have the energy, keep researching. Once I've completed research, either buy the item immediately, or add it to my "things to buy" bookmark folder. I go through the folder a couple times a year and decide if the item still interests me. If it doesn't, I delete the bookmark. If it does, I may or may not buy it then.
If it's a video, download it and put it into my 'watch these' folder for later.
If it's something I was thinking of for a friend (a meme, news article, something to buy), I'll send them a text about it. If it's after hours, I'll prep a text, save it as a draft, then send it the next day.
If it's a piece of fiction, I'll group those together as well, then leave them for the moment: I'm interested in clearing tabs right now, not getting distracted.
If it's a piece of reference material, I'll either bookmark it or add it to a collection so I can come back to it later.
If it's a recipe, I'll copy it to Word, format it to my tastes, print it out and move it to the kitchen.
If it's a thread that I wanted to read through, I'll stop and read through it, then either discard it or bookmark it if I may need to reference it again.
If it's a quick curiosity thing, I'll give it a quick read to satisfy my curiosity and close the tab.
Eventually I run out of energy and browse the internet, opening up a few new tabs in the process.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Threw a bunch of Youtube tabs into a bookmark folder with the month and the year, then closed them all. Did the same about 6 months ago, haven’t really touched any of those and probably won’t touch any of the new ones either. But they’re out of the way now.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
If you haven’t needed them for such a long time, they probably weren’t all that important anyway.
Same goes for all the physical items in my home. If I haven’t needed something in a long time, there’s a good chance I never will. This is how I reduce digital and physical clutter in my life.
Today@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I bookmark them and close them so at least they’re out of sight.
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 18 hours ago
Okay, then how do you "process" hundreds of bookmarks you haven't gotten a chance to look through?
Today@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
A topic comes up and I remember that I have a bookmark about that topic and that’s usually the only way I get back to it.
Occasionally I block off time, like 15 minutes, where I scroll through and delete the ones that I no longer care about. Kind of the same thing I do with emails and photos.
DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I just close them. All open tabs go away when I turn the computer off for the night.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Lol
I have like 250 tabs on my phone, I don’t wanna close them… Fear of Missing Out…
Steve@communick.news 19 hours ago
If they were actually important, you’dve remembered and dealt with them already. Go ahead and close them. You might be suprised when the FoMo goes away after.
I have Vivaldi set to close any tabs older than 3 days.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 20 hours ago
Well, I don’t have those.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Close them. Hoarding tabs is still hoarding.
howrar@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
For each tab, I find the project(s) associated with it, find my notes for that project, save the URL for that page in the appropriate place in my notes, then close the tab.
If it’s something that isn’t for a specific project (e.g. reading something because it looks interesting), then I just close it. It’s not important. There’s plenty of entertainment to be found without those.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
When I asked this question, I found out about raindrop.io. It’s a service where you can dump links and go through them when you feel like it.
The idea is, that if you know you won’t be checking a specific tab today, you can just save it in raindrop instead. I don’t like to have lots of tabs open anyway, but there are some sites I like to save for later. Stuff like vacation planning can produce twenty tabs just like that, and I’ll just throw them all into raindrop.
Most of them are sorted into logical categories, and I’ll go through them when I remember to. For example, vacation planning will be useful later. When that time comes, I’ll start opening all those links I’ve accumulated over the months.
Legwarmer1411@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
I would call myself a tab hoarder. FOMO. But I started using the browser setting to automatically close the tabs which have not been active in the past 7/30 days. If I have read the tab content, they should come up again in the history/search suggestions when I type in the URL/search bar. If I’m really sure I want to reference it later, I bookmark it or write it on my notes.
Also just learn to let go. I’m still having quite a number of tabs and windows open. But this auto cleanup has helped a lot.
db2@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
The only ones I keep open are those I want to revisit without keeping. The ones I want to keep I’ll bookmark, or save a local copy of if I suspect it’s going to not be there later. The rest just get closed. My open tabs count doesn’t even approach hundred let alone hundreds.
palordrolap@fedia.io 18 hours ago
I get anxious if I have more than three open per window. How other people don't is incomprehensible to me.
My phone is an ancient flip-phone, so I can't be sure how things would go there, but I can't imagine it would be much different.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 18 hours ago
I don’t let the problem get that bad in the first place.
On my computer, I close the browser end of day and all the tabs go away. On my phone, it auto archives tabs I haven’t looked at in a week. I close those periodically, but a few I use as off brand bookmarks (eg: a recipe I like)
BuckWylde@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Just close them. Stop hoarding shit you don’t need, tangible or not.
Nemo@slrpnk.net 19 hours ago
one at a time
zeppo@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
As you open them. I consider it an abysmal practice to collect hundreds of open tabs in the first place.