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Ah yes, organization. (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have three categories of tabs:

  • web apps I want to keep open all the time for notifications that I don't want to install (Discord, calendar, email)
  • tabs I'm currently switching back and forth between or plan to soon
  • tabs from the second category that I forgot to close or left open because I never got around to the task I planned to use them for

The last one is the largest by several orders of magnitude.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So I understand the first one, if you don't want an app open handling them. I still usually just open email or calendars when I want to check them, and close the tab again after, but also don't have a job that requires me to constantly monitor them.

The second point I guess I do as well in short term, but more whatever I am actively, currently try working on. I've never needed a long term organization for that, though, since it was always more like having several loose leaf papers spread on my desk and less like putting multiple bookmarks in a book and coming back to it over several hours or days. If there's no need to use it in the next 20 minutes or so, I just bookmark and close it.

The third I just really don't grok. Maybe I just really need a tidy browser workspace, but I usually have one, maybe two tabs open at a time when I'm not actively using them and referencing between them. I dont have any tabs that can be forgotten, because I close them immediately after I use them and no longer need them right now.

I guess it is no different than having bookmarks for everything, except I can hide those. I just hate the "look" of a bunch of tabs open (as a personal preference).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I don't like the look of it either, when it gets too bad I'll usually go through and close a bunch but I can't for the life of me manage to close them when I'm finished with them for the time being.