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Overcoming Tab Overload

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Re: Overcoming Tab Overload

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Post by Hamuko »

daly wrote: post #2

Is it ironic that I opened this in a tab? I'd like a browser function that says "open a text file and save all the URLs"

I actually used to use AppleScript to grab open tab URLs in Chrome but I switched to Firefox and AFAIK, Firefox doesn't support AppleScript.

    tell application "Chromium"
        set tabCount to get count every tab of window 1
        repeat with i from 1 to tabCount
            set currentUrl to get URL of tab i of window 1
        end repeat
    end tell

Re: Overcoming Tab Overload

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Post by colordrops »

One thing I do is keep a text file with lists of links, e.g. "programming", "gardening", "health" etc and if I haven't looked at a tab after a few days, I copy the URL and put it in the appropriate list, then close the tab.

If the browser prompted me to "archive" a tab after a few days and select a category, I'd probably use the functionality.

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Post by aidos »

I feel like there are broadly 2 groups of tech literate users; those who like lots of tabs and those who keep things lean. I absolutely cannot relate to the first group, as much as I try to understand the mentality.

When I’m digging deep into something new I might end up with 20 tabs, but a) it’s an exception and b) the moment I can see no more value I just close them all down and reset.

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Post by jmholla »

daly wrote: post #2

Is it ironic that I opened this in a tab? I'd like a browser function that says "open a text file and save all the URLs"

Somebody shared this in a different comment, but the OneTab extension looks like exactly what you are asking for: https://www.one-tab.com/ (minus it being builtin).

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Post by throwawayboise »

So weird to me. I think this every time I read about browser tabs, organization strategies, etc.

I rarely have more than half a dozen tabs open. And that's if I'm busy. Normally it's one or two -- whatever it is that I'm currently working on.

And at the end of the day -- all closed. History and cache cleared. Start clean the next day.

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Post by jzoch »

Tree style tabs on the side of my window absolutely changed my computing life. I stopped seeing tabs as a collection of what Im doing and instead started using them + the browsers inclination to save my tabs across restarts to track everything.

Ill have a tree of tabs for blogs im reading, a tree for work stuff, a tree for amazon orders, etc. All that context can be closed in a single click. Ill have hundreds of tabs open (but asleep!) and just pick the tree im interested in. Dont need to save bookmarks or save articles for later - they are all there always.

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Post by barbazoo »

throwawayboise wrote: post #17

So weird to me. I think this every time I read about browser tabs, organization strategies, etc. I rarely have more than half a dozen tabs open. And that's if I'm busy. Normally it's one or two -- whatever it is that I'm currently working on. And at the end of the day -- all closed. History and cache cleared. Start clean the next day.

Even the history, eh? That would definitely slow me down next time I want to go back to that same page. I guess I rely on the browser suggesting the previously visited website to me.
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