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[-] meejle@lemmy.world 68 points 1 week ago

This is one thing that makes me think mine is AuDHD, not just ADHD (waiting for an autism assessment now).

I occasionally pin important tabs, or use Tab Groups, but mostly I obsessively sort everything into Collections and start fresh every time. I can't stand digital clutter. Messy Desktops drive me mad, too.

And yet my IRL world is disorganisation and chaos. 😬

[-] confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

I hate digital clutter and regularly clear out old data I don't want anymore. My browser is set to clear everything when I close it. If I find something useful, I bookmark it. Once in a while I'll sort out any unsorted saved bookmarks and make a backup of the cleaned up list.

I'm also similar in real life though. I'm quite minimal and prefer only to have what is useful or meaningful to me.

My digital life and personal life are very similar.

[-] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

I’m starting to come around to this thought about myself as well. Not only do I also don this instead of a million stressful open tabs, when it’s work adjacent stuff that I’ll probably need to reference back again I take my own notes on the content in Obsidian, snip and paste in screenshots I might want to reference from the web page, and include command examples or code block snippets verbatim, and save the hyperlink in a yaml header parameter. I’ve gone to reference stuff just to find it completely scoured off the internet and The Internet Archive having it being hit or miss.

Everyone is all hype for local LLM’s ingesting and referencing internal/personal knowledge bases in their responses, and I’m over here like “uh I’ll just hit cmd+shift+f thx”.

[-] four@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

Glad to see someone like me. If it's important it gets bookmarked or noted down. Browser clears tabs and history on close (used to clear all cookies as well, but that got too cumbersome, now just clears most of them). I also turn off my PC at the end of the day and turn it back on the next day (and not just because I couldn't get hibernation to work), so I always have a clean slate

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[-] FrChazzz@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

When I switched to Ubuntu I wrestled with whether or not to have the home folder on the desktop (I kept it). On my laptop I run Mint and it’s a completely clean desktop. Same with my iPhone (I archived all my apps).

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[-] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 week ago

Why don't y'all just use bookmarks or even just go back thru the homepage sometimes? Managing tons of stale tabs can't be that much easier?

[-] lime@feddit.nu 85 points 1 week ago

bookmarks are for repeated access, tabs are for one-time things that you're going to get to any day now

[-] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Loading up the same tab each day is not repeated use? And you can also have folders in bookmarks. Ctrl+B Ctrl+W Bookmark added to last save location and tab closed.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

if you don't click them, they don't load. and if i can't see the thing i'll forget about it.

[-] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

How many can you see even? 20 or maybe 30 if only the icons load?

Keeping this many of anything in working memory is also not possible without forgetting.

Definitely not hundreds so the point about visibility is kind of mute.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 5 points 1 week ago
[-] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

The lengths people will go to not use bookmarks...

These are bookmarks with extra steps!

[-] lime@feddit.nu 5 points 1 week ago

no, fewer steps. these auto-arrange themselves into hierarchies based on browsing history, meaning you always have context for why a page was opened.

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[-] Inflo@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Tree style tabs and unloaded tabs has it easier than bookmarking imo It's like I can navigate all my bookmarks spatially, activating any of them rather rhan navigating through the ui to see which link was which

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 42 points 1 week ago

If it is important and you don't need it right now, use a bookmark and close that tab. Bookmarks have been around for literal decades now in browsers.

[-] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In my experience the bookmark button is essentially the, 'This is interesting and I'll check this out later but never really will' button.

Now, I have a thousand unsorted bookmarks that I am ashamed to look at and half of them are decade old dead links.

Everyone is different, though. A sane person could categorize different bookmarks into relevant sub folders and review/clean them out monthly.

I'm not that person.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago

How is it any different than a tab, other than the fact that it isn't loaded into your RAM or whatever? Do you really believe this person needs tab # 6546?

Just use a bookmarks bar, and it even looks almost identical.

[-] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There should be a 404 checker built into bookmarks. Once a year run a quick scan.

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[-] Kacarott@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago

The semi-logical reason that I leave so many tabs open, is that I do need/want the tab now, or in the near future, and keeping it in a tab is sort of like a sticky note to remind myself to do it. It rarely works though and just contributes to a growing sense of anxiety as I'm constantly stared down by a huge row of "to-dos"

[-] telllos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

So bookmark it in a check back later folder to switch your anxiety to the folder, at least its safe if you back it up.

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[-] AddLemmus@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 week ago

Oh she might be me.

It is with great grievance that I had to put an end to this and install a plugin that closes the oldest one when I get over 15 (Limit Tabs). (Actually, that is only great, unless I'm in a shopping decision frenzy and actually need this.)

[-] glibg@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

Jesus, save that shit to disk and release your browser from this cache hell.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 week ago

People should look into tab groups. Firefox has a tab grouping feature built-in now but this is a plugin that is a bit more feature-full.

So I have tab groups for different dev projects, games, podcasts, shows, music, etc. It reduces the size of each tab group which makes it easier to actually return to the important stuff and close the stuff that doesn't matter.

[-] Blubber28@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I'd recommend using bookmarks instead. There is absolutely no way where you need thousands at the same time. Save them in a logical folder structure instead!

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[-] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

once i get more tabs than i can easily see on my screen, i start getting stressed out...

[-] Blackout@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago

I yeet tabs all the time. Figure I will find it again if xenu wills it.

[-] fakir@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

Closing a tab requires that I apply immediate effort in deciding that I'm never going down this path ever again till the end of time, and yet I risk future regret if I ever want to reference a closed tab. So much effort for so little gain - tidiness for the sake of it. If you become cool with clutter, then these open tabs are different pieces that help understand and solve bigger picture problems.

Across all my machines and browsers, I think I might have over 10k tabs that I've opened but never closed.

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[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 9 points 1 week ago

What I can say for sure is that I have not seen 7500 pages on the internet in the past two years that I want to visit again.

This is relatable even if I don't have this specific issue, but I am curious what people are saving.on their emotional support tab groups.

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Why do these people not use bookmarks?

I sometimes have like 20 tabs open, but half of them are pinned which I use most of the time, and the rest is current stuff that I close when I am done with them.

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[-] LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

I don't think I have ADHD but oftentimes I forget that the tab I need is already open. There is that feature that switches you to a tab if it matches your search query in the browser bar, but somehow I keep searching in ways that circumvent that feature ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[-] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have 3 firefox windows open at all times each with 30 to 50 tabs and i save them regularly in the tabs library so that i can re-open them whenever i want. There's a re-open all tabs button when clicking on a tabs folder.

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[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 points 1 week ago

There is an extension to automatically backup open tabs and restore them for the hardcore tabbers.

[-] oo1@lemmings.world 3 points 1 week ago

Remember the 3-2-1 rule for backups of record breaking sessions.

[-] Cheskaz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

My Firefox starts to get grumpy once I get to over 1000 tabs

[-] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

Best I got is 1k.

[-] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

And here I was worried about my 70ish tabs

[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Now there is an actually good use for AI. Have a program that bookmarks your tabs and sorts them into subfolders automatically.

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[-] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

If that's in your workflow just use sessionmanager extension (but don't hoard them, it changes your fingerprint)

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Export Tab URLs for occasional plaintext backups.

[-] hactar42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

This is me with unsaved files in VS Code. Every so often I'd go through and try to clean them up but it stayed around 150 files. I got a new laptop a couple of weeks ago and I've slowly crawled back up to about 15-20.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

I have like 30 tabs which i always force quit the app to preserve

[-] black0ut@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago

If you quit normally and press ctrl + shift + T upon startup, the session is automatically restored.

Ctrl + shift + T is also useful to bring back tabs you accidentally closed. It brings them back in the order that you closed them (you can use the shortcut multiple times)

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you soo much

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