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On Firefox I use great extension Totally not Panorama [0] which gives old tab-groups-like feature. This gives me ability to group tabs around interests. It's li
by hawski 8y ago
On Firefox I use great extension Totally not Panorama [0] which gives old tab-groups-like feature. This gives me ability to group tabs around interests. It's like multiple workspaces in a desktop environment.
However most of the time I just open a lot of tabs. First I read some low-effort click-bait that I do not deeply care about. Then I read something that I'm actually interested in, but it's somewhere in the middle. Then I'm left with articles of perceived high-quality or high interest. I will read a few of them within a week or so. The rest will remain for even a couple of weeks. After a while I will either read them or just close the tab when I finally see that I don't care much about it. Also I read too many comments on HN.
I'm not proud of this.
One should always remember Strugeon's law [1] - "ninety percent of everything is crap". It may be worth it more to aim higher or just go for a walk than read crap.
While I'm at it, I was thinking about a title filter. I would like to filter out all content titled "N things you should know" or "N apps for something" entirely. Also personally probably all content about corporate machinations - be it Google or Apple.
Another thing would be from around the top of my too long todo list. An HTML-only browser that would index and possibly store all retrieved text - enabling full-text search through whole local archive. Then I would not worry about loosing some potentially relevant information. Bonus for it being HTML-only - no more position:fixed or sticky bars at the top, no GDPR or cookie fluff and no more JS tracking or otherwise.
[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/basic-panorama/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/basic-panoram...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
- mirodin 8y agoWell for the indexing stuff I recomend Worldbrain[0]. I use it for some time now and was able to find a lot of stuff that would be otherwise lost in my browsing history. It helps mo out when there is this "I know I read something about functors and javascript like two weeks ago". Turns out it was 5 weeks ago but since Wordbrain indexes every page I visit I do not have to scroll through 2k history entries. [0] https://worldbrain.io/ https://worldbrain.io/