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TranquilTurbulence

@ TranquilTurbulence @lemmy.zip

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I don’t have a problem. I can quit any time I like. I only swipe recreationally. Every five minutes. Maybe I’m in denial. First stage, right?

update: Auto-correct and I are in a toxic relationship. Swiping just enables it. Tried quitting once. Worst 5 minutes of my life.

update: There’s this 12-step program... Step one was turning off predictive text. Didn’t make it to step two.

  • Why do some people have so many browser tabs open?

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  • That visibility seems to be a reoccurring theme in this thread. Some other people have brought that up as well.

    On one hand I totally get it that if you see 10 tabs open all the time, they remind you of the 10 things you were planning to get back to at some point. On the other hand, I’m a bit skeptical about how functional that really is. I guess there is a way to make it work, otherwise nobody would do it that way.

    What about 50 tabs? Does it still work that way? If you have a 100 tabs, you can’t even read the names any more, so it’s just one pile at that point, isn’t it. Although, some people treat that as a timeline of sorts, so I guess there can be some order too.

    Anyway, recently I bumped into Raindrop, which seems to be like Pocket, but better. Still testing it, so I can’t tell you much yet. So far, it seems to be pretty good at organizing the stuff you throw in there.

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  • Care to elaborate? Some people with ADHD hate seeing tabs, and they close all tabs as soon as possible.

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  • When I sort by “last visited” I tend to find things rather quickly. Have you tried that yet? The other sorting options are pretty much useless IMO.

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  • This is the way. Last visited is the only option that actually makes any sense.

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  • Wait, so it caches the page too? If the site goes offline, you have your personal copy anyway? That’s a bit like the internet archive, isn’t it?

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  • There are worse harding habits. Videos, photos, physical items etc.

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  • Achievement unlocked! 🤣

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  • How does the speed matter in this case? It’s not like gigabytes of stuff gets read and written all the time.

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  • Sounds reasonable. I do that all the time, but I also close the tabs as soon as I stop caring about them. Do you end up having hundreds of tabs open?

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  • Mobile tabs are a bit different though, because the system manages RAM so aggressively. With computers though, running out of RAM is usually the user’s fault. If a mobile OS runs out of RAM, it just kicks stuff out, like that Lemmy client where you were writing a comment and then decided to check something on wikipedia before posting.

    Same thing with tabs too. Those two week old tabs haven’t been active in a long time.

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  • And that’s the reason why some people have 100+ tabs open? Yeah, I guess you can hide pretty much anything in numbers like that. Once the tab bar is completely full and unreadable, who knows what kinds of secrets there could be. Coworkers can walk by and they have no idea what’s just a few tabs away.

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  • That’s understandable. But why keep them in tabs though? Other people here have recommended a variety of different approaches.

    More than a few people have also mentioned Raindrop. Completely new to me. Haven’t tried that one yet, but I’m planning to take a closer look.

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  • Even those 500 tabs in mobile Safari?

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  • Forking the path is the real killer feature of websites. You can open the main page, click 4 subpages open, navigate each of them a little bit, compare different parts of the site and so on. It’s not uncommon, that I need to look up some information from one part of the same site when typing information inton some text box. Try that with an app!

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  • There’s that zen browser again. I keep hearing about it, and now I can’t stop myself from trying it out.

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  • I have no reason to assume that my way of doing thins is better than any other. I just know what works for me, and that doesn’t mean some other way should’t work for someone else.

    Based on what I’ve seen, most people seem to have a rather small number of tabs open, while a smaller group of people like to do the exact opposite. That’s not a tiny minority though. Maybe something like 10-20% approximately. Since that many people do things in a completely different way, I got curious as to why that is.

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  • LOL, and get back to them some time within the next weeks… or months. Who knows how long it will take. 🤷

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  • I keep bumping into Raindrop all the time, but nobody explained what it is. As if everyone already knows what it is. I didn’t, until I finally took the time to open that site. In a new tab, obviously 😀

    Anyway, seems like a pretty neat idea. So, how does that better than using normal bookmarks of your browser?

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  • To some extent, I do that as well. However, in my case, it’s not hundreds of tabs. More like 5 sites that I reference frequently enough to keep them open most of the time. I also have bookmarks for the same sites so I can quickly open them when I need to.

    However, what I’m really curious about is the people who have hundreds of tabs open all the time. What kind of workflow is that how does it work?

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  • That’s sort of like the “watch later” feature in YouTube. Hey, wasn’t Firefox Pocket meant to be like that?

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    Why do some people have so many browser tabs open?

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