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Tab hoarding is caused mostly by there being nothing less cumbersome/annoying to manage than bookmarks. The tabs that get kept around are often important enough

Tab hoarding is caused mostly by there being nothing less cumbersome/annoying to manage than bookmarks. The tabs that get kept around are often important enough to want to keep around, but not so important as to be worth dealing with cleaning up bookmarks later. This is especially true for task-associated “to do” tabs that will no longer be needed when the task is completed. The other reason is because for a lot of people “out of sight, out of mind” is very true and so if they bookmark their tabs, the bookmarks will then gather cobwebs as they’re forgotten about shortly after bookmarking. Tabs don’t have this problem because they’re right there in your face all the time reminding you of their existence, meaning they actually get dealt with.

reitanqild 4y ago
In my case (as described elsewhere) it helps me that they are visible and it might also help that they are in the same position where I left them (spatial consistency I guess, but English is not my first language).
- kitsunesoba 4y ago
  The spatial element makes total sense. Placement of windows and elements within windows on a desktop computer is really not that different from stacks of papers arranged on a desk, and spatial memory makes keeping track of it all much more feasible in both situations. It turns your desktop into something resembling a physical space rather than an arbitrary hierarchy. This is actually one of the reasons why I prefer to have a "mess" of freely floating windows of assorted sizes on a 27" or larger screen as opposed to having the same windows all maximized/tiled on a smaller screen. The former of the two setups gives persistent windows a unique place that they "live" on the screen, which makes picking each one out faster for me than if I were e.g. spamming alt-tab or scanning a taskbar to find the window I want.

reitanqild 4y ago

In my case (as described elsewhere) it helps me that they are visible and it might also help that they are in the same position where I left them (spatial consistency I guess, but English is not my first language).

kitsunesoba 4y ago
The spatial element makes total sense. Placement of windows and elements within windows on a desktop computer is really not that different from stacks of papers arranged on a desk, and spatial memory makes keeping track of it all much more feasible in both situations. It turns your desktop into something resembling a physical space rather than an arbitrary hierarchy. This is actually one of the reasons why I prefer to have a "mess" of freely floating windows of assorted sizes on a 27" or larger screen as opposed to having the same windows all maximized/tiled on a smaller screen. The former of the two setups gives persistent windows a unique place that they "live" on the screen, which makes picking each one out faster for me than if I were e.g. spamming alt-tab or scanning a taskbar to find the window I want.