I'm sorry to hear that Nobody should have to wade through 1500+ tabs.
It's frustrating to hear anyone struggle with that in this day and age. I've been there myself. But there are technical solutions.
I haven't had to deal with tab anxiety in years.
My browser stack is Tree Style Tabs, Session Manager, Multiple Tab Handler, and Tab Group Plus.
I regularly wrangle clusters of tabs.
If I have a tree of tabs that is spawned from an HN story or something, I can drag it into a new window, and then export it to a tgmg file from Tab Group Manager, put the tab collection file in my repository, and put a reference to it in my knowledge base. I might also embed it in an rtfd file.
If I don't need that kind of structure, I can just use shift or ctrl to bulk select the tabs I want, and paste the urls into my knowledge base. And effortlessly restore the list of urls to a new session when I want.
I'm able to re-create not just specific urls, but the context that I browsed them in.
If it is months or years later, it is really helpful to have a tree or list of urls, and maybe some notes. That makes it so much easier re-inhabit my state of mind during that research session.
I doubted whether it would be worth perusing, but I'm really glad I did. I love being able to recall research threads I started years earlier.
Unfortunately, it takes some effort to get set up to digest lots of tabs. I wish that this was recognized as more of a problem. It is so idiosyncratic that we are using open browser tabs as a temporary database to store lists of urls. Browsers should combine history, tab management, and bookmarks. It makes no sense anymore for those features to be separate from each other.
Yeah I usually have no open tabs at the end of a session. The point is that with the right tools, you can bulk capture the essence of what you were browsing without letting clutter accumulate.
Sounds like a great approach, can you tell us more about it? Do you have subfolders? Do you move or delete bookmarks when you are "done" with them? Would love some details. Thank you for the inspiration!
You are at a different level. No I am not being sarcastic. Anyone who is able to concentrate with more than 10 tabs open has my respect.
I figured that bookmarks, downloaded files, and open tabs for more than a day are mostly causing me remorse for not being able to ever get to those again. So I focus on tasks and use search to open what I need.
Is it just me or is Tree Style Tabs fairly buggy when it comes to focusing tabs after closing one? It seems half random to me.
It's also fragile at browser startup, sometimes the list is empty or the tabs are in a flat list. When I switch to bookmarks and then back, it's fixed.
So, generally very fragile. Which is annoying since the CONCEPT is so essential.
It's frustrating to hear anyone struggle with that in this day and age. I've been there myself. But there are technical solutions.
I haven't had to deal with tab anxiety in years.
My browser stack is Tree Style Tabs, Session Manager, Multiple Tab Handler, and Tab Group Plus.
I regularly wrangle clusters of tabs.
If I have a tree of tabs that is spawned from an HN story or something, I can drag it into a new window, and then export it to a tgmg file from Tab Group Manager, put the tab collection file in my repository, and put a reference to it in my knowledge base. I might also embed it in an rtfd file.
If I don't need that kind of structure, I can just use shift or ctrl to bulk select the tabs I want, and paste the urls into my knowledge base. And effortlessly restore the list of urls to a new session when I want.
I'm able to re-create not just specific urls, but the context that I browsed them in.
If it is months or years later, it is really helpful to have a tree or list of urls, and maybe some notes. That makes it so much easier re-inhabit my state of mind during that research session.
I doubted whether it would be worth perusing, but I'm really glad I did. I love being able to recall research threads I started years earlier.
Unfortunately, it takes some effort to get set up to digest lots of tabs. I wish that this was recognized as more of a problem. It is so idiosyncratic that we are using open browser tabs as a temporary database to store lists of urls. Browsers should combine history, tab management, and bookmarks. It makes no sense anymore for those features to be separate from each other.