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I say this with all the love and compassion in my heart: have you tried bookmarks? Not trying to be snide, but having that many tabs open and expecting to ever

I say this with all the love and compassion in my heart: have you tried bookmarks? Not trying to be snide, but having that many tabs open and expecting to ever come back to the same one twice is 100% incomprehensible to me. But, I freely admit, I start trying to pare down when my tabs get narrower than the default width. I've gathered that I'm an anomaly

tgbugs 5y ago
I hear you. I do use bookmarks, and sometimes they work better than a google search, but they are a solution to a different problem (a problem for which sometimes I wonder whether it doesn't make sense to store the raw html of every page I ever visit and stick it in a full text search index ... org capture maybe?), and they are siloed inside their specific apps or websites. I got burned by using reddit's save functionality without realizing that you can only ever see the last 2k saved pages and now I bookmark things locally so at least sort of unified there. The issue that I'm thinking about here is finding active UI elements that already contain what I am looking for. I have been able to do this to a certain extent in Emacs by writing commands to go to a specific buffer that is already open, except that even that doesn't quite for a variety of reasons including the fact that sometimes you want some exact state and sometimes you want a clean slate and in Emacs in particular doing that can completely mangle buffer ordering. At some point I will get fed up with the current state of things and fix whatever brain dead heuristic destroys the buffer ordering but for now I find workarounds. Essentially the issue is that yes, it would be great to be able to put a pin in the high dimensional state space that is a computer + network and just ... go back to that point, but even ignoring the engineering challenges my experience is that the dominate UI paradigms haven't really even considered the issue (though the research community surely has).
BeFlatXIII 5y ago
I have the Tree Tabs extension to blame for enabling me to be a member of the 100+ tab club. What it allows that bookmarks do not is a clear way to swap between dynamic groups of related tags. A somewhat real-world example: I have 5 tabs open for reference on an Elixir project I plan to return to over the weekend and 12 tabs open for a Python project I’m currently working on. When I’m done with today’s Python work, I expect to have no more than seven of those Python tabs remaining.

tgbugs 5y ago

I hear you. I do use bookmarks, and sometimes they work better than a google search, but they are a solution to a different problem (a problem for which sometimes I wonder whether it doesn't make sense to store the raw html of every page I ever visit and stick it in a full text search index ... org capture maybe?), and they are siloed inside their specific apps or websites. I got burned by using reddit's save functionality without realizing that you can only ever see the last 2k saved pages and now I bookmark things locally so at least sort of unified there. The issue that I'm thinking about here is finding active UI elements that already contain what I am looking for. I have been able to do this to a certain extent in Emacs by writing commands to go to a specific buffer that is already open, except that even that doesn't quite for a variety of reasons including the fact that sometimes you want some exact state and sometimes you want a clean slate and in Emacs in particular doing that can completely mangle buffer ordering. At some point I will get fed up with the current state of things and fix whatever brain dead heuristic destroys the buffer ordering but for now I find workarounds. Essentially the issue is that yes, it would be great to be able to put a pin in the high dimensional state space that is a computer + network and just ... go back to that point, but even ignoring the engineering challenges my experience is that the dominate UI paradigms haven't really even considered the issue (though the research community surely has).

BeFlatXIII 5y ago

I have the Tree Tabs extension to blame for enabling me to be a member of the 100+ tab club. What it allows that bookmarks do not is a clear way to swap between dynamic groups of related tags. A somewhat real-world example: I have 5 tabs open for reference on an Elixir project I plan to return to over the weekend and 12 tabs open for a Python project I’m currently working on. When I’m done with today’s Python work, I expect to have no more than seven of those Python tabs remaining.