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My brain only has to focus on ONE at a time. I can be blissfully unaware of the thousands of others that are ready when I decide to pay attention to them. (I a
by dublin 4y ago
My brain only has to focus on ONE at a time. I can be blissfully unaware of the thousands of others that are ready when I decide to pay attention to them.
(I also run almost everything fullscreen almost all the time. Even a 4K screen isn't really dense enough for two side-by-side browser windows to render properly.)
BTW, one thing I've noticed is that people who like lots of tabs seem to have good/different spatial and directional orientation - I don't know exactly where tabs are, but in my current window, I know for instance, without even thinking about it, that the dozen or so tabs on laser cutters that I rounded up back in April are about 6 scrolls of the mousewheel down from where my email window is pinned at the top, last seen on the left side. (So, maybe 400 tabs down? But I don't think of either of these numbers, just a relative "place". I have FF set to show/scroll three rows of tabs to compromise tab space vs. content space.)
It's kind of like why I hate digital books like Kindles - you can never just open the book maybe a bit less than 2/3 through, thinking, "it was about here" and then flip back and forth a few dozen pages to zero in on what you want. (In a real book, though I don't have a "photographic" memory, I usually know whether what I'm looking for was on the right or left page, and sometimes, where it was on the page. I don't think about this, it's just either "there" (usually), or sometimes, not.)
"Messy organization" like "piling systems" is usually associated with people who find existing categorization systems (say email or filesystem folders) way too restrictive, and so they find it easier to have multidimensional ways to locate things in space, time, and sensory association. If you don't think this way, more tabs are going to drive you batty.
Neither way is right or wrong - people just think differently. Vive la difference!