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A few minutes or half an hour are different...this guy has upwards of 500 tabs - you can't come back to that in a few minutes or half an hour... I said 10-12 t

by ajpatel 15y ago

A few minutes or half an hour are different...this guy has upwards of 500 tabs - you can't come back to that in a few minutes or half an hour... I said 10-12 tabs consistently - and by that I mean app tabs that remain open. The rest should be opened for research as needed AND THEN CLOSED WHEN FINISHED. For everything else that you need to consistently check updates on, you need to find a way to turn it into an RSS feed or Twitter feed or whatever that feeds into an existing tab for an app you already have open (e.g. Google Reader or your social media aggregator of choice). This is not "my" way - this is the way of the human brain. You can't do that many things at once and you can't focus on that many things at once. You would be overwhelmed by 500 tabs of information...that's why most of us have 1 site where all our information aggregates and 1 email address where the rest forward and 1 cell phone rather than 5-6, etc. I'm saying that people that do this type of EXTREME tab browsing are inherently disorganized and lack focus and attention to anything they do. Yeah, downvote it to hell, I really don't mind. If you do this on a regular basis though, I'd love to hear from you and how you feel about whether you are an organized individual and one who adequately focuses on the things that are important to you.

ImprovedSilence 15y ago
I prob dont get up to 100 tabs. but I do like to open different browser instances, one for mail, fb, twitter, etc. one with a bunch of news articles (and of course, for evert hn article, the comments) one for whatever prog language im currently in. which is usually thw biggest, that contains multiple how-tos, searches for commands, at least 10 tabs from the 'official' site, and its this one that needs to stay open for days/weeks as im working on a project and constantly refrencing info i previously knew id need. also, each browaer instance is usuaaly in a doff workspace, to keep work and play seperate.
tresta 15y ago
I tend to have about 100 tabs open in my web browser. Of those, 10-15 are for pages that I always have open, ~50 are for pages that are relatively temporary (as in a few weeks), and another ~25 for more temporary (days), and then up to 50 for very temporary (like when I'm browsing through hacker news and so on). I would say that I am relatively organized, but apparently in another way than you are. As an example of how I organize my tabs, I have 8 tabs open with minecraftwiki/forum, 5 imdb tabs with bad '50s horror flicks for a movie night I'm planning, 4 tabs with articles about an emacs customization that I'm planning, 10 tabs with doxygen generated documentation for a C++ project I'm doing, 6 tabs have arduino documentation for a hardware project I'm halfway through, a few appdb.winehq pages for games I have problems running, some wiki-pages with books I'm thinking about buying, and a few with articles I'm thinking about sharing with my friends. This is in 3 windows on 2 virtual desktops (on my main machine, I have another 20 tabs open on my laptop). I don't get "[1]00 tabs of information", I get perhaps 10 different topics that I can choose between, and when I have done that I can just scroll over the group of tabs that make up a topic to get a quick overview. After this, I'm usually synced up with what I was thinking the last time I was working with the project. Btw, I use 2 rss readers (google reader and akregator), the akregator one for things I shouldn't read while working. I have 2 cell phones. I also have 3 email endpoints, one for studies, one for personal mail and one for work. There is nothing inherently disorganized about this (IMO), since it gives me a very clear distinction between my different tasks.
sixtofour 15y ago
"This is not "my" way - this is the way of the human brain. You can't do that many things at once and you can't focus on that many things at once." Exactly. So he offloads that memory into tabs. If the browser will handle it, it's as good as file cabinets, in/out trays, ReadItLater, or tall yellow stacks of National Geographic.

by ajpatel 15y ago

ImprovedSilence 15y ago

I prob dont get up to 100 tabs. but I do like to open different browser instances, one for mail, fb, twitter, etc. one with a bunch of news articles (and of course, for evert hn article, the comments) one for whatever prog language im currently in. which is usually thw biggest, that contains multiple how-tos, searches for commands, at least 10 tabs from the 'official' site, and its this one that needs to stay open for days/weeks as im working on a project and constantly refrencing info i previously knew id need. also, each browaer instance is usuaaly in a doff workspace, to keep work and play seperate.

tresta 15y ago

I tend to have about 100 tabs open in my web browser. Of those, 10-15 are for pages that I always have open, ~50 are for pages that are relatively temporary (as in a few weeks), and another ~25 for more temporary (days), and then up to 50 for very temporary (like when I'm browsing through hacker news and so on). I would say that I am relatively organized, but apparently in another way than you are. As an example of how I organize my tabs, I have 8 tabs open with minecraftwiki/forum, 5 imdb tabs with bad '50s horror flicks for a movie night I'm planning, 4 tabs with articles about an emacs customization that I'm planning, 10 tabs with doxygen generated documentation for a C++ project I'm doing, 6 tabs have arduino documentation for a hardware project I'm halfway through, a few appdb.winehq pages for games I have problems running, some wiki-pages with books I'm thinking about buying, and a few with articles I'm thinking about sharing with my friends. This is in 3 windows on 2 virtual desktops (on my main machine, I have another 20 tabs open on my laptop). I don't get "[1]00 tabs of information", I get perhaps 10 different topics that I can choose between, and when I have done that I can just scroll over the group of tabs that make up a topic to get a quick overview. After this, I'm usually synced up with what I was thinking the last time I was working with the project. Btw, I use 2 rss readers (google reader and akregator), the akregator one for things I shouldn't read while working. I have 2 cell phones. I also have 3 email endpoints, one for studies, one for personal mail and one for work. There is nothing inherently disorganized about this (IMO), since it gives me a very clear distinction between my different tasks.

sixtofour 15y ago

"This is not "my" way - this is the way of the human brain. You can't do that many things at once and you can't focus on that many things at once." Exactly. So he offloads that memory into tabs. If the browser will handle it, it's as good as file cabinets, in/out trays, ReadItLater, or tall yellow stacks of National Geographic.