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Overcoming Tab Overload

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Re: Overcoming Tab Overload

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Post by zo1 »

lightfooted wrote: post #27
jzoch wrote: post #18

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…

I’d like to try this. What browser do you use? I see that it’s a feature for Vivaldi and I also see a Chrome extension.

Not OP, but Tree Style Tabs is for Firefox.

Re: Overcoming Tab Overload

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Post by jeanchen »

lightfooted wrote: post #27
jzoch wrote: post #18

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…

I’d like to try this. What browser do you use? I see that it’s a feature for Vivaldi and I also see a Chrome extension.

I highly recommend Tabs Outliner, a Chrome extension

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Post by _jal »

aidos wrote: post #15

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.

I have 14 pinned, those are tools I use at least daily at work.

Add in a page of search results, 3 or 4 of those opened, HN and some article I'm reading during "clear my head" time, and I'm at 20.

I'm usually working on multiple tasks, many of which take multiple days. I have tried to group tabs in windows thematically, but browsers are shit about respecting that (for instance when opening new tabs from other apps).

I'd rather read what's in my tabs than mess around with them, so I tend not to fight it.

Re: Overcoming Tab Overload

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Post by imilk »

dole wrote: post #11

I love OneTab, being able to dump 50-100 tabs out to a running page of links to restart the browser is simple peace of mind to me.

I love Onetab as well. The problem I often have is sending a lot of tabs to Onetab, then never looking at them again. Which may not actually be a problem and more of an indication for how "important" the tab actually was.

The dream for me would be if Onetab has a search feature that allowed you to search the text on all the tabbed pages that you saved. Because sometimes you save a tab because of a specific topic, but the topic is not in the Title of the page and it can get lost in the clutter.

Or maybe more useful, a search service that just crawled the pages in your Chrome history, rather than the entire web.

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Post by alin23 »

chatmasta wrote: post #30

I would love to see a Miro-style, infinite canvas, tiling tab manager. If I zoom out past the page, show me a canvas with thumbnails of all my tabs, that I can click and drag to group or arrange however I want. Then let me zoom into one of the thumbnails to switch to that tab. Basically Apple’s mobile Photos.app interface but for browser tabs.

Safari on iOS actually does that exact thing when the device is in landscape mode.

Re: Overcoming Tab Overload

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Post by stzsch »

I wish there was a way to completely force firefox to keep only one window open.

I imagine that would help with my tab-hoarding, as I tend to branch into more windows (up to ~50) once they reach too many (20 or so) tabs each.

Re: Overcoming Tab Overload

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Post by ksec »

chatmasta wrote: post #30

I would love to see a Miro-style, infinite canvas, tiling tab manager. If I zoom out past the page, show me a canvas with thumbnails of all my tabs, that I can click and drag to group or arrange however I want. Then let me zoom into one of the thumbnails to switch to that tab. Basically Apple’s mobile Photos.app interface but for browser tabs.

Doesn't Tab Overview in Safari on macOS already does that? ( Without the Drag and Drop Part )

The problem is its current implementation completely kills your SSD if you have too many tabs. The problem has been going on for years. To the point I have to manually disable Tab Overview gesture and icons.

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