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For me, it is "new browser tab" effect these days. I will often be reading a website, then think "Oh, I must research this thing they are talking about" or els
by cyberferret 8y ago
For me, it is "new browser tab" effect these days. I will often be reading a website, then think "Oh, I must research this thing they are talking about" or else I will remember some other thing that I have to do online, so I will open a new browser window in the background.
But then I will get distracted by something else on the current web page - for even a few seconds - and when I go to the new tab to do what I had planned to do, I sit there in complete blank befuddlement, staring at the empty page and wondering what on earth I was supposed to look up.
- donttrack 8y agoNot only me then.. I thought I was just getting old.
- spython 8y agoEspecially with the "top sites" or "highlights" feature of contemporary browsers, that in essence show different doors, invite into other worlds as soon as you open a new tab. So instead of going where you wanted to go you get disoriented by all the offerings. Can't not link to my blog post Open tabs are cognitive spaces [0] that deals with the browser as the place you externalize your cognition to. [0] https://rybakov.com/blog/open_tabs_are_cognitive_spaces/ https://rybakov.com/blog/open_tabs_are_cognitive_spaces/
- lvncelot 8y ago- "This makes a lot of sense" I say to myself, opening your blog link in a background tab.
- jodrellblank 8y agoI have wanted what you describe, before, at the OS level. Why should groups be limited to just browser tabs? If my task involves some editor windows and some CLI windows and some whatever, why can't I have a virtual desktop grouping it all together? Basically, a VM per overarching task.
- dopkew 8y agoThis is what I do in Firefox: In the current page press Ctrl+k, type the search phrase, press Alt+Enter, to open the search page in a new tab.