I used to have this problem. Now I just collect bookmarks that I will never read
Overcoming Tab Overload
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#162I 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…
This is (bugs withstanding) what Firefox does if you choose to"Restore previous session" int the General/Startup section of about:preferences . This feature is provided by a Gecko component called the the session store ( https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/compone... ).
Thanks, that seems really useful.
I sometimes need to restart my computer but don't want to lose all my Firefox windows and tabs, so I would force kill Firefox and have it restore the 'crashed' session after rebooting. That did work very well, but this is a much cleaner solution.
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#163Tree 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 use Bookmark OS which lets me organize tab sessions in a folder tree structure. Worth checking out
Re: Overcoming Tab Overload
#164I 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 would also like to be able to bookmark a page along with saving its contents entirely as a snapshot (the text of the page, a screenshot of the page, a PDF of the page, or all of the above) in some standard format. That way I can do a full-text search through my past tabs or bookmarks to find what I am looking for, and look at it again, even if the site is presently inaccessible. Is there anything that does that? Or…
SingleFile has an option to save bookmarked pages.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Why didn’t workona work for you?
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#166I'm glad that such research is being carried out, since the browser is the main tool and chaos is happening in it.
I use LiveComment for manage 10k+ tabs. Pretty practical https://www.npmjs.com/package/livecomment
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#167Tree 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 made https://cretz.github.io/doogie/ to solve this, but I don't really maintain it (I just build it for myself on each new Chromium) and it doesn't work on Mac.
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#168i get anxious when I have more than like 5 tabs open...I don't know how people handle having 20-100+
I think it's just an information hoarding mentality. Like people you see on hoarding TV shows with stacks upon stacks of old newspapers just in case they "need" to refer to them one day.
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#169I was a VERY late convert to tabs, and I only use them for browsers now (and not all the time, either). I always felt that the OS X command-tilde functionality, for switching between windows the same way you switch through applications using command-tab, was superior. You're always switching between the most recently used windows, chronologically. You can even remember when something was several keystrokes back, and if you don't remember, you can see it in realtime.
It's insanely frustrating to try to switch between two arbitrary tabs in a browser, you have to use the mouse, and keep track of which tab you want to use. I was just running into this problem earlier today, switching between a doc I was reading and a tab I was working in.
Of course, having separate windows for everything leads to more visual clutter, and hurts discoverability a little bit.
Re: Overcoming Tab Overload
#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I have found Workona amazing and a life saver. I use it daily.