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Re: Overcoming Tab Overload

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Post by seryoiupfurds »

NaturalPhallacy wrote: post #129
riccardomc wrote: post #127

I am ruthless with my tabs. I always close them all at the end of my day. Just like Inbox 0, I aim for Tab 0. Serenity is the reward for this small disciplined effort. Close them. They're not going anywhere. You can always find the links back tomorrow. An entire multi-million industry wants you to find them back as easily as possible. You might even find better ones when you start fresh. It's just your loss aversion…

Same here. Right clicking my leftmost tab and hitting "Close tabs to the right" is so freeing once you get used to it. That aside, how do you do the [1] type of linking? Manually? I checked the docs and in classic hacker style they didn't avail me.

Yeah, it's a social construct not a feature. You type [1] in the paragraph, and then you type

[1]: https://example.com/

at the end of your comment.

Re: Overcoming Tab Overload

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Post by pseudalopex »

kirubakaran wrote: post #98
crazygringo wrote: post #82

I just wish there were a way to save page state along with a bookmark or similar. Sometimes I'd really like to close a ton of tabs, or just close my browser, or a whole window, and reopen tomorrow. But I'm relying on scroll position to know where I am in 20 different documents, or login credentials that only last for 24 hours, or certain comment threads that have been expanded while others have been collapsed, or my…

I'm working on this for https://histre.com/features/save-restore-tabs/

Is it end to end encrypted?

Re: Overcoming Tab Overload

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Post by zzo38computer »

crazygringo wrote: post #82

I just wish there were a way to save page state along with a bookmark or similar. Sometimes I'd really like to close a ton of tabs, or just close my browser, or a whole window, and reopen tomorrow. But I'm relying on scroll position to know where I am in 20 different documents, or login credentials that only last for 24 hours, or certain comment threads that have been expanded while others have been collapsed, or my…

I wanted such thing too (it is only one of very many things I would want in a new web browser program). I would also want to be able to save it to a file with a documented format, so that it can be examined, edited, copied, etc. Such a feature is then capable of doing other things too, such as a "duplicate tab" command, etc, which you can get almost "for free" when such a thing is implemented. (I also want the separate ability to save only form data to a file; sometimes saving the entire state is not wanted.)

Re: Overcoming Tab Overload

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Post by etiam »

Salvaged from my own current tab overload:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookwheel

I occurred to me that this might make a nice working metaphor for web browsers:

Make a virtual wheel with a defined (default-manageable) number of positions to fill.

Add ability to rotate, or slide, in a number of such wheels.

Any wheel that doesn't get active use for some reasonable amount of time goes automatically from active inventory to searchable long term archives.

Re: Overcoming Tab Overload

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Post by jackewiehose »

crazygringo wrote: post #82

I just wish there were a way to save page state along with a bookmark or similar. Sometimes I'd really like to close a ton of tabs, or just close my browser, or a whole window, and reopen tomorrow. But I'm relying on scroll position to know where I am in 20 different documents, or login credentials that only last for 24 hours, or certain comment threads that have been expanded while others have been collapsed, or my…

> And all of that gets lost if I close a tab or even restart my browser to upgrade.

Or when you just visit a link and then press the back-button.

I remember 20 years ago you would press the back-button and your previous page was IMMEDIATELY restored, no network request involved.

It feels like today the browser cache isn't used at all. This is especially disappointing with the new Firefox Mobil where they removed offline-mode among other features.

Re: Overcoming Tab Overload

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Post by Overdr0ne »

Overdr0ne wrote: post #128

I really want my tabs to just be emacs buffers. Emacs has sooo many different tools to organize and operate on buffers, so different types of users can compose a workflow that works for them, including plain old tabs if they really want. And of course, extensibility, the most important feature imo And you can do this now of course, with w3m or other plaintext browsers, but it's just not that comfy for most webpages t…

For the record though, I'm very pleased to see people explicitly questioning the UI status quo, esp one so widely assumed as tabs. It seems browsers are just following the 'dont touch anything or you'll drive away our base' method of development, and it's depressing... Can't be much fun for the developers either I imagine. I look forward to seeing what they come up with

Re: Overcoming Tab Overload

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Post by narwally »

Overdr0ne wrote: post #128

I really want my tabs to just be emacs buffers. Emacs has sooo many different tools to organize and operate on buffers, so different types of users can compose a workflow that works for them, including plain old tabs if they really want. And of course, extensibility, the most important feature imo And you can do this now of course, with w3m or other plaintext browsers, but it's just not that comfy for most webpages t…

I find that the more you use emacs the more you get frustrated that nothing else works the way it does in emacs. You either deal with it, try and hack some emacs functionality into your favorite tools, or end up living full-time inside of emacs--relegating your desktop environment to a glorified emacs launcher.

Re: Overcoming Tab Overload

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Post by RheingoldRiver »

Twisol wrote: post #140
andrewaylett wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like I've 81 tabs open in this Firefox window. It's not uncommon that I'll be over 1k (across one window per monitor). With `%` to search across open tabs, and an unused tab not really taking any meaningful amount of resources (especially with Auto Tab Discard) I open a whole load of tabs, close them if I realise I'm done with them while I'm looking at them, and if I don't close the tab then that's fine -- it's…

> With `%` to search across open tabs ... No way. That's my TIL for the day. Am I the only one who didn't know about this!?

Woah that's pretty cool. I expected it to be a vimium-style modal if I just typed `%` at any point in time - so for anyone else who was confused like me, it's a prefix in your address bar so ctrl+L then % and then type your query but still, awesome!

Re: Overcoming Tab Overload

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Post by alsetmusic »

catchmeifyoucan wrote: post #93
alsetmusic wrote: post #83

The article refers to their “new” tab / task management tool. The web page[0] for it has no information or screenshots. Anyone have a link to see the tool in action? [0] https://www.skeema.com/

After some digging, I found some more information here: https://www.fastcompany.com/90635776/the-twisted-psychology-...

This was very informative. Thank you!

Reminds me of Workona, which also seemed appealing but didn’t find its way into my workflow.

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