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Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by errnoh »

cloudking wrote: post #32

Serious question, people who have hundreds or thousands of tabs at a time, why? Personally I've never found the need to have so many tabs open.

I think my tabs mostly belong to one of two categories:

* Research about a subject (that I didn't close when I continued to the next one)

* "Oh that's interesting, I'll read it later"

I do remember that 10+ years ago I used to have a nice collection of bookmarks, each with relevant tags. Then one day I had to switch browsers due to performance issues, the new browser didn't support tags from the previous one so lost everything. Ended up just keeping tabs open after that and every now and then I just go through them until 500 or so remain.

For the "read it later" scenario I'm aware that there are a lot of services that try to solve that problem, none that I've tried just seem to fit my workflow.

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by benjaminjackman »

rsync wrote: post #31

I don't understand why a simple export of the list of current tabs open is not a basic, built-in feature of the browser. I am not asking for management or storage or export or sharing ... or anything interesting at all. I should just be able to go to: chrome://tabs (or whatever) and see a text list of tab URLs. All browsers should have this functionality.

its frustrating, along a similar vein I was trying to export my history from firefox and ... well that wasnt happening.

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by shacrw »

bitxbitxbitcoin wrote: post #3

Just curious - what is the amount of tabs that everyone else has open right now in their browser? I currently have 29... Trying to figure out on which side I'm an outlier. I know (thanks to the favicon) what each tab is and when I'll use it next, but am I just wasting ram on my computer and in meatspace?

yesterday I exported and closed 706 tabs in Android Chrome. Natively, you can't export/bookmark tabs in bulk on Android. I used adb to get json list, then converted json to csv and a custom python script to get an HTML file from the csv and export them to a folder in Bookmarks Bar.

Now, thinking of using some newsletter automation to deliver 5 links from those folders daily so that I can remove them over time.

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by sneak »

rsync wrote: post #31

I don't understand why a simple export of the list of current tabs open is not a basic, built-in feature of the browser. I am not asking for management or storage or export or sharing ... or anything interesting at all. I should just be able to go to: chrome://tabs (or whatever) and see a text list of tab URLs. All browsers should have this functionality.

I don't understand a lot of things about browsers, including why they don't log/persist caches of the full content of all history (for full text search at the minimum), why they still send user-agent headers, why they persist all cookies for all domains by default, et c.

It's making me rather cynical, because I'd like to think that browsers are user agents, but I think these days they're just advertising company agents that happen to run on users' computers.

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by sneak »

cloudking wrote: post #32

Serious question, people who have hundreds or thousands of tabs at a time, why? Personally I've never found the need to have so many tabs open.

When I am researching on a topic, I middle-click all branches from my main thread of research, making a window a topic and all of the tabs my "to read" list. Most of them can get closed as I read them.

The web is a tree of links, but my reading is linear, so I have to queue the nodes discovered in a linear fashion for reading.

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by brewdad »

cm523 wrote: post #14

Really like OneTab for this same functionality. https://www.one-tab.com - For Firefox and Chrome. Differences, clicking OneTab's "Share as web page" will give you a link with the date-time you merged your tabs into the OneTabs list as well as a QR Code. Saving tabs and also saving memory, when it auto merges them into a single space.

I really wish OneTab could sync between different computers. I regularly use three different machines and hate when I can't find a Tab I saved on one of the machines I'm not currently using.

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by pzmarzly »

bobbydreamer wrote: post #26
cm523 wrote: post #14

Really like OneTab for this same functionality. https://www.one-tab.com - For Firefox and Chrome. Differences, clicking OneTab's "Share as web page" will give you a link with the date-time you merged your tabs into the OneTabs list as well as a QR Code. Saving tabs and also saving memory, when it auto merges them into a single space.

Been using one one tab for last 3years and I have around 3000 tabs list :)

I hope you take backups - I lost 500 tabs stored in OneTab about 3 years ago. Just launched the browser like always, only to see blank onetab page. It probably wasn’t the extension’s fault but browser’s (I don’t remember whether I was using Vivaldi or Opera at that time), but that day I moved to https://pinboard.in

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by ypcx »

Why do we open new tabs?

1. We want to do multiple things at once (very rare, very limited, let's say we have 5 such things, Gmail, Slack, Gitlab, monitoring, etc.)

2. We want to have websites preloaded and ready to go as soon as we get to that tab (often)

3. We want to "bookmark" links temporarily without actually saving them into our Bookmarks (this goes hand in hand with point 2. but not always)

4. Observation: large numbers of pre-opened tabs will stay opened for a very long time until we actually find the time to get to them, consuming memory, tab bar space, as well as our mental space as we have their tab icons visible.

So I think based on the above, an ideal tab management system would:

- understand "sessions/groups/trees", e.g. I opened HN and alt+clicked on links and discussions that interest me as I went through the list

- gave me an opportunity to transfer such "trees" to another browser window, session, computer

- had an option to automatically, or on a command, archive (and later restore from) these into a tab history, which would retain the hierarchy

- had other functionality that I cannot foresee at this moment

Additionally, the browser should probably load & pause a background tab once its opened using alt+click, and only run it once its actually opened by the user.

Edit: formatting

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