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It’s a to do list
Hard to explain that tab I've had open for 8 months for something I've been meaning to read.
I usually just bookmark after a few weeks. Might come back to it in a few years
Rookie numbers
CGP grey once spoke about those links on Cortex.
Instead of reading everything that seems important and interesting today, he just saves those links and gets back to them later. A few weeks later, he just ends up deleting most of that stuff anyway, because it wasn’t actually all that important.
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Not all disabilities are visible.
This may or may not be a joke, but yes, this is very often talked about among ADHDers!
I'm AuDHD and thankfully this is one area where my ordered, autistic side wins out – i.e. I have meticulously organised bookmarks and "Raindrop" tags for everything instead. 😄 I couldn't stand having tons of tabs open.
AuDHD
Intrusive thought when I first read that, “Gold tier ADHD!”
Ouch! That’s pretty brutal.😀
Next time I see someone with too many tabs, I’ll think of that line.
Simple.
- I'm reading tab A
- Tab A links to tab B
- Open B in new tab, since I know I'm going back to tab A soon.
- Go to tab A
- Go to tab B again
- I'm finished reading tab B so I close it.
Notice how I didn't close tab A. Because at that point, I was not in tab A, therefore I don't think about that tab much so I don't even think if I should close it or not. Tab A will probably stay open until I decide to clean my tabs when there are 50+ tabs on them.
Another common scenario:
- I'm reading tab C
- Something comes up that makes me either switch to another task or shut down the computer
From this point there are 2 paths: either I never resume the task I opened tab C for, so it stays there for a long time, or I resume the task when tab C is too far up (I use vertical tabs), so I open tab D that is the same webpage as tab C. When I finish I close tab D, but tab C remains for a long time.
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When I asked someone about it, they basically used them like bookmarks.
I use them as a sort of bookmark cache. Stuff I'm unlikely to want to keep for long but also not stuff I want to discard immediately. I use the tree style tabs plugin in ff, works beautifully
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I'm a tab-o-holic. I probably have ADD. I don't know but I'll start researching something and if I don't finish that research before moving on to something else or if the need for the research is postponed, I don't want to lose what I was doing.
Also there are sites I go to everyday, email, calendar, YouTube, so I just leave them up all of the time.
Somebody help me!!
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You know when you make a sandwich or some buttered toast and you set the knife carefully on the edge of the sink. Well because you might decided to make another sandwich latter or your SO goes that looks good can I get one too. And bam your the hero because you now have one less knife to clean in the dishwasher.
That is why I have so many tabs open. I know I probably won't need most of them and it's safe to close them. But oh dang do I feel like a hero when I get that itch for a video I want to watch and I don't have to look through my history for next 20 minutes because, bam, its right their in that tab.
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Keeping them open keeps them more visible than if you only rely on bookmarks or browser history. Personally I use a browser extension for vertical tabs (Tree Style Tab) that allows you to make subgroups, which does a great job organizing the tabs - I could replicate something similar with bookmarks, but that would be additional work.
I also use an extension that automaticaly unloads tabs after a while (you can toggle it off on a per-tab basis, of course), which helps a lot with keeping down resource use.
I will come back to it eventually, when the time is right.
It's not important enough to bookmark, it's not urgent enough to get to right now, but it's too interesting to ignore entirely. When the time is right for a tab, I will return to it. Sometimes I scroll through them to jog my memory. Sometimes I'll decide it wasn't as interesting as I thought and delete it.
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I suspect they lack whatever visceral reaction makes me start to panic if I have more tabs open than fit neatly across the top of the browser.
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Because they hadn't heard of this feature called bookmarks
Because I'm going to need those! Not this second / day / week / month, but I'm going to need those and I have way too many bookmarks!
but once I’m done, I close them all
Same. But I also have a continuous stream of new projects that never get finished.
Because, shockingly, not everyone sees the world the way you do.
Why do people consider the way others do things as flawed, or pathologize the behaviours of others?
Also, browser history is awful.
Have you seen the price of RAM lately? You gotta do something to make sure you're getting your moneys worth.
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