Ask HN: How to deal with hundreds of open browser tabs

If I have many tabs open that I need to review and sift through and I want to put that process on hold, I use the OneTab extension that will collapse all the tabs and save all the urls as a group on the OneTab app page. You can name each group, click on a button to launch tabs for all the links in the group, etc.

Big picture though, for each project or endeavor I'm working on I create a folder in google drive with a document named journal where I journal my thoughts, ideas, meanderings on the project. I start collecting important links relevant to the project there. Over time I add more documents and folders to organize my work on the project and save/document any important resources.

One-tab extension.

I feel your pain. I have often reached 600+ tabs. I might have touched thousands. Didn't count.

I tried One Tab. It seems to work for many people here but for me once in a while it lost all the tabs, which is not acceptable. See, the whole point of OneTab is to free my mind of all anxiety that I might lose a resource that I had discovered and at the same time, free the RAM.

So here is what I use now. This might or might not work for you.

* I use Zim Desktop Wiki to keep track of my important links. I use Zim-Clip extension to save links that I might need long term. I can use an hierarchical structure of any depth.

* I use a Session Manager "MySessions" to save work that I can open again when I come back to it. Typically I work on 4 different projects. Then there is mindless, bottomless browsing :) So each is a different session

* Lean Tab Limiter to control how many tabs are open at any one time

* "Open Tab Count Resurrected" to be give count of number of tabs in current window and total number of tabs across windows.

* Pocket to save links to read that I might not come back for reference

This is what I use to tame the multitabbed monster