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Thank you for sharing "Fade Old Tabs". I have the same problem with OP and have 1200+ tabs open across 4 firefox windows. That is after a big purge I did earlie

Thank you for sharing "Fade Old Tabs". I have the same problem with OP and have 1200+ tabs open across 4 firefox windows. That is after a big purge I did earlier this year where it was 2000+. Tree Style Tabs crashed a lot before but it has been quite good in recent memory. I have a hard time closing out what is essentially my thought process to finding a solution or doing research. Along the way I close out dead branches. What remains is either a solution or where I have left off. I think my mental barrier is what it represents: my time capital sunk. The issue is working around this many tabs and managing it; a time sink in itself to fix. Started documenting completed solutions in Obsidian and I've found that if I can't get over my lazy barrier to even enter it in, it's probably not important. Just have to keep working on improving and refining the way I think and approach this.

deafpolygon 4y ago
> have 1200+ tabs open across 4 firefox windows does research get you to have so many open? How do you manage it all? I've only just started using Sidebery but I try to keep my tabs at a reasonable 100-200 open.
- Arrath 4y ago
  If OP is anything like me, they 'manage' the old tabs by thinking "Oh that's neat I'll leave it open so I can come back to it' and...never do that.
  - goarchive 4y ago
    I fall into this trap as well. My solution to mitigate my tab hoarding has been to set up a blank GitHub repo and use the discussions/issues to just continually post links, descriptions, and notes in a thread format. Then I can just keep commenting to myself. It seems to help break up topic binges that I go on. Plus I like with GitHub it’s all markdown-based so I can throw images, files and whatever else I need in a session in there to keep it all encompassing.
    - pessimizer 4y ago
      Ever thought of productizing that idea? Sort of a personal threaded wiki that you can send bookmarks to?
    - Pavlova8 4y ago
      So you'd use git in a similar way you'd use obsidian, just with the ability to sync online and share easily/collaborate.
    - 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
      My solution is to shutdown my PCs every day.
      - qwertox 4y ago
        I do this as well. I have a Python script which I can use to kill all chrome.exe so that next time the machine boots, chrome offers me to restore the tabs which where open before the crash. I only use this when I know that the tabs are really important and I need to continue using them the next day. Else Chrome starts with a single custom startpage which contains links and as well as views to Jira projects (like a to-do list via the Jira API). And during the day I bookmark all tabs I find important and clean up. But it's usually around 4 windows with each around 10 - 20 tabs which accumulate during the day, in addition to dedicated browser profiles which serve specific purposes, like email or developer consoles.
        2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
        I do the same thing without Python. ctrl + shift + t opens previous tabs and windows.
      - TeMPOraL 4y ago
        Doesn't work for me, Firefox restores tabs from before restart. I could turn it off, but it invariably comes helpful for when Firefox (or the PC) crashes. My current solution is that, through a stroke of luck and a lot of pent up frustration, I've managed to habituate the following behavior: WHEN I notice I've been procrastinating for too long, OR I'm getting anxious about so many "open loops" in the browser, OR I lose track of specific tabs I know are open and spend more than two seconds looking for it, THEN I find the last Actually Important tab (usually somewhere between the third and the tenth from the left), right-click on it, select "close tabs to the right", and confirm the closure of 100-200 tabs. I do this a few times on a typical week; because its habituated, I do it fast enough that the FOMO of "but I actually wanted to read that, and that, and that" doesn't have time to kick in.
- weaksauce 4y ago
  I wrote a little webext to help me find tabs in a visual way grouped by window. middle click closes the tab and left click brings the tab you click on to the forefront. It's simple but something I use many times every day. feel free to try it out: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiogfkaldbfphfdkpggjemaha https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog... https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist
- krackpot 4y ago
  I end up not managing it at all and it becomes a second brain. Links also rot when revisiting to recall info which is another problem. I use % in the address bar to find the tab what I'm looking for. I like exhaustive deep dives so will explore as many sources as I can find, until my attention wanes, or I find a solution. Have signed up for Readwise beta which will hopefully help me to add a layer to store/consume information before it info gets committed to Obsidian. Other link/article aggregators have not been successful for me as it just becomes another repository to manage. Will have to look into sidebery, haven't seen that before!

deafpolygon 4y ago

> have 1200+ tabs open across 4 firefox windows does research get you to have so many open? How do you manage it all? I've only just started using Sidebery but I try to keep my tabs at a reasonable 100-200 open.

Arrath 4y ago
If OP is anything like me, they 'manage' the old tabs by thinking "Oh that's neat I'll leave it open so I can come back to it' and...never do that.
- goarchive 4y ago
  I fall into this trap as well. My solution to mitigate my tab hoarding has been to set up a blank GitHub repo and use the discussions/issues to just continually post links, descriptions, and notes in a thread format. Then I can just keep commenting to myself. It seems to help break up topic binges that I go on. Plus I like with GitHub it’s all markdown-based so I can throw images, files and whatever else I need in a session in there to keep it all encompassing.
  - pessimizer 4y ago
    Ever thought of productizing that idea? Sort of a personal threaded wiki that you can send bookmarks to?
  - Pavlova8 4y ago
    So you'd use git in a similar way you'd use obsidian, just with the ability to sync online and share easily/collaborate.
  - 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
    My solution is to shutdown my PCs every day.
    - qwertox 4y ago
      I do this as well. I have a Python script which I can use to kill all chrome.exe so that next time the machine boots, chrome offers me to restore the tabs which where open before the crash. I only use this when I know that the tabs are really important and I need to continue using them the next day. Else Chrome starts with a single custom startpage which contains links and as well as views to Jira projects (like a to-do list via the Jira API). And during the day I bookmark all tabs I find important and clean up. But it's usually around 4 windows with each around 10 - 20 tabs which accumulate during the day, in addition to dedicated browser profiles which serve specific purposes, like email or developer consoles.
      - 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
        I do the same thing without Python. ctrl + shift + t opens previous tabs and windows.
    - TeMPOraL 4y ago
      Doesn't work for me, Firefox restores tabs from before restart. I could turn it off, but it invariably comes helpful for when Firefox (or the PC) crashes. My current solution is that, through a stroke of luck and a lot of pent up frustration, I've managed to habituate the following behavior: WHEN I notice I've been procrastinating for too long, OR I'm getting anxious about so many "open loops" in the browser, OR I lose track of specific tabs I know are open and spend more than two seconds looking for it, THEN I find the last Actually Important tab (usually somewhere between the third and the tenth from the left), right-click on it, select "close tabs to the right", and confirm the closure of 100-200 tabs. I do this a few times on a typical week; because its habituated, I do it fast enough that the FOMO of "but I actually wanted to read that, and that, and that" doesn't have time to kick in.
weaksauce 4y ago
I wrote a little webext to help me find tabs in a visual way grouped by window. middle click closes the tab and left click brings the tab you click on to the forefront. It's simple but something I use many times every day. feel free to try it out: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiogfkaldbfphfdkpggjemaha https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog... https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist
krackpot 4y ago
I end up not managing it at all and it becomes a second brain. Links also rot when revisiting to recall info which is another problem. I use % in the address bar to find the tab what I'm looking for. I like exhaustive deep dives so will explore as many sources as I can find, until my attention wanes, or I find a solution. Have signed up for Readwise beta which will hopefully help me to add a layer to store/consume information before it info gets committed to Obsidian. Other link/article aggregators have not been successful for me as it just becomes another repository to manage. Will have to look into sidebery, haven't seen that before!