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Pretty much this, yes
Other people’s computer usage is weird to me.
I just bookmark stuff if I think I’ll need it later, and I usually don’t even do that. Otherwise, every browser window is closed at the end of the session.
People not understanding that we understand bookmarks exist is weird to me.
For me it’s a suspected ADHD thing. If I make a bookmark:
- I have to context-switch into “cleaning up” mode. Leaving a tab open is not distracting, having to name it and categorize it is.
- Bookmarks are virtual drawers. Anything I put in a drawer might as well be in a cave in Alaska guarded by a troll as far as my brain is concerned. If I intend to look at this in the next 2-3 weeks, I keep the tab open because it’s a virtual reminder I’ve not yet done the thing.
- Yes, I’ve got tabs open from over a year ago. Those ones don’t serve a purpose, I’ll get around to cleaning up… eventually.
Honestly if I was forced to close my browser sessions at the end of the work day, not joke, not an exaggeration, I’d switch jobs. I’m working on too many different complex things to have to rebuild my mental model of where everything was at from scratch every morning. I would not get anything done.
This probably won’t help with the first point but you can hit Ctrl+d I think, or click the star, and it’ll just bookmark it with a default name (page title) and location, I think. I’ve definitely bookmarked things by accident somehow.
I don’t believe I have ADHD so I can’t really relate to it. My original post wasn’t meant to be like a condemnation - weird isn’t always bad. Just different.
It’s mildly interesting that you wouldn’t get anything done, but I feel like if I had to work like you I wouldn’t get anything done. Trying to deal with all those tabs would be a big distraction to me. Funny how different folks can be.
Yeah it’s Ctrl+D. I do use bookmarks on occasion (especially for stupid websites with non-intuitive URLs and page titles I can’t easily find by typing in the omnibar), but not as a way to organize my work.
The reason I mention ADHD for this in particular is I saw a home organization tip for ADHD that I related strongly to: ADHD brains really benefit from having everything spread out on a table, visible and immediately available. Trying to force an ADHD person to constantly put things away is super counter-productive even if it’s apparently good advice for neurotypical folk. Though of course ADHD is not an excuse not to clear the messy table once the project is finished.
My computer desktop follows the same principle. I’ll have as many workspaces as I do ongoing projects, and every workspace has all the tools I need open. And the good news is it’s much harder to run out of virtual space than it is to run out of space on a real table.
Well, what if you think you don’t need it later, but you do? I don’t trust my own judgement here!
Usually the browser history, or I remember enough to find it again.
Admittedly, a couple times I haven’t been able to find a particular meme or whatever, but it’s never been important stuff.
This is why you keep a several hundred megabytes history file set to remember “forever”
Ah, but that’s for the things of which I remember later than I need them. Tabs are for the things I need later, except that I’ve later forgotten that I need them. Very important, obviously.
I’ve got tabs open! Don’t close my tabs! I need those tabs!
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarks-firefox
To bookmark all open tabs in a window at once:
- Right-click on any of the tabs and choose Select All Tabs from the context menu.
- Right-click on any tab again and select Bookmark Tabs….
- Give the new bookmarks folder a name and choose which folder to store it in.
- Click Add Bookmarks to finish.
Or just ctrl+shift+D (or equivalent non-Windows shortcut I imagine)
I found that out just by right clicking the tab and going from there, didnt know they made a whole support article for it XD
Many support articles are written by volunteers, I believe, which is nothing short of amazing.
You gotta set aside time in your schedule to deal with those tabs.
Haha good one!
Rushes to hide my 600+ open tabs
Those are rookie numbers!
No, seriously. One time I realized one window’s tabs were nothing but porn. So I closed the whole window. 247 tabs all at once closed. That was one window. I had 22 more windows.
I genuinely have no idea how many tabs I have open.
No, I won’t take the bait. :)
stuffs worms on hooks in your mouth
YES YOU WILL!!!
Pfff. Fine. Ctrl + h. ;)
My open tabs across two windows all need to pass muster or be closed at the start of the week.
They usually number between 4 and 12. But mid process might get up into the 30s.
Compared to many people, especially posting here, I know they are "rookie numbers" .
But who is the real rookie, the one who knows how to control their open tabs without closing all of them, or the one who can’t close a tab at all?
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I started groovin’ and she started movin’
And we really started feeling fine
In the midst of consummation she caused me aggravation
When she started messing with that mouse
Don’t you close that tab!
It’s my favourite website
Don’t you close that tab!
It goes on and on againFaster Pussycat!
