anxiety about not being able to find something again if I need it later
Yep, overcoming this and realizing I can almost always find what I found before, very easily, cured me of this. And even when it takes a bit of effort to search, it’s just a few minutes until I stumble on it again. Plus sometimes I come across other neat stuff while searching!
That’s what bookmarks are for. And even if the webpage gets removed on the server you often can find it on archive.org . Heck if you really wanna make sure you can load the page later your can save the webpage locally onto your device
I have all sorts of projects and tasks I jump between depending on my ever shifting priorities. And some projects of mine can spawn 20+ tabs on their own.
Likewise (well, I don’t know about “hundreds,” haha, but dozens, certainly). Ever since tab-searching became a thing (% in the omnibar of Firefox or Ctrl+Shift+A in Chromium), tab count or location in the tab strip doesn’t matter; just jump to whatever you need. This has been tremendously game-changing at my work which also calls for dozens of spreadsheets to be accessible at a moment’s notice based on the task at hand.
I end up reading Wikipedia or TVTropes (or everything2, or Reddit threads or Wookiepedia or ancient forums), and then each tab means that I open several more. I have social media posts open that I want to write arguments against later, articles that I might use in writing those arguments…
My phone is usually at the cap of 500. Between Vivaldi and Firefox my computer probably in the thousands.
I tried using “Pocket” to keep track of interesting articles instead, but it didn’t match my flow.
It is hyperlexia and ADHD. I similarly own probably ~1000 or so books.
What do you guys do with so many tabs? I usually close mine if I get more than 7 or 8
In my case, ADHD, curiosity, and anxiety about not being able to find something again if I need it later.
I never said it was RATIONAL behavior 😄
Yep, overcoming this and realizing I can almost always find what I found before, very easily, cured me of this. And even when it takes a bit of effort to search, it’s just a few minutes until I stumble on it again. Plus sometimes I come across other neat stuff while searching!
Try it, you might like it!
That’s what bookmarks are for. And even if the webpage gets removed on the server you often can find it on archive.org . Heck if you really wanna make sure you can load the page later your can save the webpage locally onto your device
I have all sorts of projects and tasks I jump between depending on my ever shifting priorities. And some projects of mine can spawn 20+ tabs on their own.
I have hundreds of tabs open at any given time
Same here, often 20+ tabs per client, and sometimes working for 6-8 clients at a time. Plus a tab of my own for music/social/news/sport.
Likewise (well, I don’t know about “hundreds,” haha, but dozens, certainly). Ever since tab-searching became a thing (
%in the omnibar of Firefox or Ctrl+Shift+A in Chromium), tab count or location in the tab strip doesn’t matter; just jump to whatever you need. This has been tremendously game-changing at my work which also calls for dozens of spreadsheets to be accessible at a moment’s notice based on the task at hand.I end up reading Wikipedia or TVTropes (or everything2, or Reddit threads or Wookiepedia or ancient forums), and then each tab means that I open several more. I have social media posts open that I want to write arguments against later, articles that I might use in writing those arguments…
My phone is usually at the cap of 500. Between Vivaldi and Firefox my computer probably in the thousands.
I tried using “Pocket” to keep track of interesting articles instead, but it didn’t match my flow.
It is hyperlexia and ADHD. I similarly own probably ~1000 or so books.
500?! You’re wild!