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Tabs are not files. If you need to save things, use bookmarks. If you don’t, don’t keep clutter around. Do you still keep all the files in the download folder since 2013?


> If you need to save things, use bookmarks

my losses:

- time spent copying the information, even more so to have the same subgroups/order

- losing that order when you regroup tabs during continuous work

- harder navigation as now I need an extra "bookmarks" UI instead of existing tab lista

What would the universal gains be that would justify this?

> If you don’t, don’t keep clutter around.

Did you notice the word 'sessions' in the title? That's for organizing

> Do you still keep all the files in the download folder since 2013?

Nope, I split them into folders, just like I split my tabs into sessions


> - harder navigation as now I need an extra "bookmarks" UI instead of existing tab lista

This is an HN thread about an extension that offers extra UI to save, manage your tabs. It's evident that the one-line-of-tabs UI is not enough for your use case.

Bookmarks already definitely have better UX for organization, they can even be renamed, tagged, searched… natively!

> Did you notice the word 'sessions' in the title? That's for organizing

My point is that you can store your "sessions" in a bookmarks folder. Browsers have made it excessively easy to "save all tabs" and "open all bookmarks" already. "Saving a tab session" is literally indistinguishable from "Saving all tabs as bookmarks", you're just duplicating a native browser feature by installing a 3rd party extension that has access to your entire browser history.


> This is an HN thread about an extension that offers extra UI to save, manage your tabs.

But your misunderstanding was much broader, and I'm responding to that. This extension is bad since it doesn't allow auto-sync, but that's not relevant to your promotion of bookmarks

> Bookmarks already definitely have better UX for organization, they can even be renamed, tagged, searched… natively!

only if you ignore the issues that make them worse UX for organizations that I've already mentioned in the list, specifically

> losing that order when you regroup tabs during continuous work

This is a critical difference between "retain your working SESSION at the latest point your worked on it" and "Saving all tabs as bookmarks" that you just ignore

also,

> they can even be renamed, tagged, searched… natively!

How to you add multiple tags in Safari ... natively?


Bookmarks work fine for saving tabs if you open everything in one window. Starts failing miserably once you want to save a set of windows and their tabs.




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