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Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by freediver »

miguelrochefort wrote: post #133
cookiengineer wrote: post #16

Isn't this tab fatigue of every user not more a hint that bookmarking is broken? I mean, no matter how I bookmark a website, omnibar is absolutely useless in every browser when it comes to re-discovering your bookmarks via keywords that you remember. Sometimes I bookmark the same URL multiple times, because the Browser is too stupid to realize that a #generated-hashbang or a ?utm_source is a generated tracking parame…

The solution is trivial: Show related bookmarks at the top of Google Search results. It blows my mind that neither Google nor Pocket implemented this feature (natively and/or as a browser extension).

How would Google know your bookmarks?

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by cycomanic »

handrous wrote: post #135
cookiengineer wrote: post #16

Isn't this tab fatigue of every user not more a hint that bookmarking is broken? I mean, no matter how I bookmark a website, omnibar is absolutely useless in every browser when it comes to re-discovering your bookmarks via keywords that you remember. Sometimes I bookmark the same URL multiple times, because the Browser is too stupid to realize that a #generated-hashbang or a ?utm_source is a generated tracking parame…

IMO one of the main problems is that opening a new tab is much faster than finding an existing one.

One of the best extensions is the tree-style-tabs extensions. It puts your tabs on the left/right of your window organised in a tree, makes finding tabs much faster than having tabs at the top (and with modern wide-screen monitors also optimises screen real-estate)

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by flippinburgers »

raffraffraff wrote: post #71
dredmorbius wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very much this. I've attempted (largely unsuccessfully) to try to use Pocket (also a Mozilla product) to address this. The problem with Pocket is that it gets worse the more you use it. From four years ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_... A couple of those issues have been addressed. There's now "find in page" on the Android app, and editing tags is very slightly improved. But overall,…

It's weird. The exact same problem affects to-do apps and note taking apps. I'm pretty sure it was a HN post I recently read where the problem of to-do apps was discussed. People go through phases: discover an app, start with a clean slate, get a better night's sleep because you get to write down all the things you're definitely going to do , work your way through x% of the list, gradually accumulate a list of things…

I have a short list of daily todos that include six subjects that I want to focus on. If I do something towards that task, I add a checkmark for every day of every month. It is interesting to see how consistent or inconsistent I am with tasks over time. This is primarily motivation towards learning basics or attempting master of something.

People should be taught to pursue things on a daily basis from a young age. I think it helps temper expectations about what can actually be done over time, which is not a skillset I had when I was younger: I was in constant pursuit of too many things all of the time.

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by dionidium »

theshrike79 wrote: post #57

This is a type of FOMO. You start collecting Absolutely Essential Reading in tabs, stuff that you'll for sure read later, no joke, seriously. You never will. But you can't close the tab or you can't find the content again and bookmarking is mostly useless if you use multiple computers and browsers daily. I got over my tab-itis with Pinboard[0]. If stuff seems to sit in my tabs for too long, I can send the link easily…

One way to combat this FOMO is to remember that the subset of web pages you'll never read that also just happen to have caught your attention is dwarfed by the billions of web sites you don't know about and won't ever read. There's no particular reason to privilege this former set in your mind based solely on the randomness of having noticed the items within it. They're just more pages in the set of billions of pages that you won't ever read.

The water that splashes into your boat is the same as the rest of the water in the ocean.

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by freediver »

adamkl wrote: post #136
agent327 wrote: post #64

Here's something I'd love to have. Let's you are reading hacker news. Clicking a link gives you two options: open in a new tab, or open, replacing the current tab. Opening in a new tab works, but leaves you with a lot of tabs open that are cognitively hard to deal with ("why did I think this would be interesting?"). Replacing the current tab removes the context. When you return to the front page, it may have changed,…

I do this my having two windows open side-by-side (a 32” 4K monitor and a tiling window manager make this easy) and just drag a link from the left browser window over to the right. Not as nice as simply clicking, but usable. If you’re willing to change browsers if necessary, Firefox has a Side View [0] extension that offers some functionality, though it’s just an “experiment” that hasn’t been updated in years. [0] ht…

Very cool, thanks for sharing.

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by throwamon »

freediver wrote: post #147
vagrantJin wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny to come across this thread. Just a week ago my best friend had been moaning for two years about tidying his garage. I came with two beers intent on a chill weekend watchinh olympics but I happened to run into his wife as she was parking her car in the garage. We spoke for a minute but I decided we'd rather start working on his garage. My friend came out and we started. A few hours later, tired and hungry, his S…

Now that you mention it, it seems that there is indeed a phenomena worth exploring here. I may have done many things in life that I perceive to be valuable for our family, but nothing earned me as many 'points' with Mrs. as did the act of just sucking it up and cleaning the entire garage one day.

Phenomena is the plural of phenomenon.

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by djKianoosh »

bradrn wrote: post #146

One hundred and fifty tabs‽ Pff, that’s nothing. I currently have 400 — after closing ~4000. My problem is that I regularly check HN (and occasionally other sites as well), and I often end up opening ~20 tabs a day from that alone. Of course, I never get around to reading them, and my tabs simply grow and grow. What eventually worked for me was getting a reference manager (I use Zotero). Every day I try to close a bu…

opening new tabs for... zotero, google search reference manager, google search get all open tab urls.... waitaminute!

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by mrfusion »

cookiengineer wrote: post #16

Isn't this tab fatigue of every user not more a hint that bookmarking is broken? I mean, no matter how I bookmark a website, omnibar is absolutely useless in every browser when it comes to re-discovering your bookmarks via keywords that you remember. Sometimes I bookmark the same URL multiple times, because the Browser is too stupid to realize that a #generated-hashbang or a ?utm_source is a generated tracking parame…

I wish every search I did would search my existing bookmarks first and prioritize those.

Also maybe my Home Screen could alternate to opening random bookmarks in my “read later” folder.

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by miguelrochefort »

freediver wrote: post #151
miguelrochefort wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The solution is trivial: Show related bookmarks at the top of Google Search results. It blows my mind that neither Google nor Pocket implemented this feature (natively and/or as a browser extension).

How would Google know your bookmarks?

Chrome?

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by tconfrey »

dredmorbius wrote: post #38
cookiengineer wrote: post #16

Isn't this tab fatigue of every user not more a hint that bookmarking is broken? I mean, no matter how I bookmark a website, omnibar is absolutely useless in every browser when it comes to re-discovering your bookmarks via keywords that you remember. Sometimes I bookmark the same URL multiple times, because the Browser is too stupid to realize that a #generated-hashbang or a ?utm_source is a generated tracking parame…

Very much this. I've attempted (largely unsuccessfully) to try to use Pocket (also a Mozilla product) to address this. The problem with Pocket is that it gets worse the more you use it. From four years ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_... A couple of those issues have been addressed. There's now "find in page" on the Android app, and editing tags is very slightly improved. But overall,…

Check out BrainTool (https://braintool.org) it's a browser extension that allows you to trivially add pages to a custom hierarchal 'Topic tree' along with notes on why you're saving the page, and then to control opening and closing tabs by topic. Everything is saved to an org-mode syntax text file. So of your requirements it's persistent, local, tagged and entirely-offline-usable. Incremental search is in the works.

It works with tab groups on Chrome, Edge and Brave which adds another step toward keeping your browser organized.

It might fit your workflow and be what you need!

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