Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 1 month agoI’m never actually going to look in the bookmarks folder so why would I put anything there?
Out of sight, out of mind, which means it comes with pros and cons though. If you feel like 500 tabs is consuming too much of your mental bandwidth, then offloading some of them to bookmarks should help. The idea is that only active stuff would be in the tabs, while everything a bit less active would be in the bookmarks.
Some people just don’t roll that way, and this thread has some interesting comments about that style too.
While I was writing my master’s thesis I tried to put things in the bookmarks folder and ended up re-researching a lot of topics. It ended up being much less work having 6 browser windows open across 2 monitors with a bunch of tabs relating to related subjects. For example window 1 might have only papers related to retrograde tracer studies in the medial entorhinal cortex, window 2 has anterograde tracer studies in the insular cortex etc that way if I needed info on any of those subjects I could flip through the tabs related to that topic before searching for a paper.
In other words, that’s the kind of stuff you need to reference frequently, so having those tabs constantly open is quite useful for the task at hand.
Other people seem to just neglect and abandon a bunch of tab. That’s a very different crowd though.
No I also tend to have about 12 irrelevant tabs open too. But it’s all down to executive dysfunction.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Bookmarks bar. It’s literally a toolbar under your URL bar that you can have displaying always.
You can put folders on that bar (with no name if you want so it takes up almost no space) if you want.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
Hahahaha, right.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Pardon? Why was that funny?
mika_mika@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The level people are willing to delude themselves into their poor habit in this thread is breathtaking to me.
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hilarious