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Hard agree; if you have more than a half-dozen tabs open, you might be doing browsing wrong. Anyone not already using OneTab... it is my desert island "if I co

Hard agree; if you have more than a half-dozen tabs open, you might be doing browsing wrong. Anyone not already using OneTab... it is my desert island "if I could only have one browser plugin". https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbolifaimnlloiipkdnihall?pli=1 https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbol... It lives in my left-most pinned tab, 24/7.

imtringued 2y ago
The moment you go on HN, skim the front page and open a queue of HN submissions to read, you already exceed your half a dozen tab rule. When I look at how many pinned tabs at work I have, all of which are mandatory, there isn't even a single tab left for actual browsing. I'm sure you're proud of completely impractical ideas such as opening a tab, bookmarking it, closing the tab, then five minutes later trying to find the bookmark to reopen the tab and then delete the bookmark, just to stay within a silly six tabs rule. Have you considered that maybe you're the one doing something wrong? Some humility and empathy could help you out.
- doublerabbit 2y ago
  > The moment you go on HN, skim the front page and open a queue of HN submissions to read I don't do that. Open one, article, read, close and than open another. And there is no right or wrong way to web browsing. There are two types of people, those who use a bookmark bar and those who use tabs. Myself, I don't get mass tab usage. Use tab, close tab. Reopen if I really need that page again. I ensure that all usage for that tab is exhausted before. On very rare occasions have I needed to reopen that tab. If really need it, I'll bookmark it in the bookmark bar. Password managers, PAM, IMC and all other miscellaneous utilities are all things in my realm yet looking at my work screen now I only a total of three tabs open. Anything that would be useful to have open normally times out anyway. And my actual inbox is organised to where no email sits in the inbox. A new email gets copied to a folder via filter, marked as read. I then delete the email from the inbox once read knowing it exists elsewhere. Makes Mondays very easy to get in to work.
- peteforde 2y ago
  Here's the thing, champ: you downvoted my comment because you didn't read beyond the first line, which is evident from the fact that you completely ignored the approach that I was advocating. 1. Install OneTab 2. Open all of the links on HN you want in separate tabs 3. Hit the OneTab extension icon You now have all of those tabs waiting for you, across all devices, sorted not just by date but by session. You can move tabs between those sessions if you have a way you like to organize things. If you go back and read your reply, it quickly becomes clear that you didn't even try to understand what I was showing you. Also: pinned tabs != ephemeral tabs. This is very much a false equivalency. If you have mandatory tabs, that's very different from pinning a tab to come back to it later. Seriously, just install OneTab and enjoy your life a bit more.

imtringued 2y ago

The moment you go on HN, skim the front page and open a queue of HN submissions to read, you already exceed your half a dozen tab rule. When I look at how many pinned tabs at work I have, all of which are mandatory, there isn't even a single tab left for actual browsing. I'm sure you're proud of completely impractical ideas such as opening a tab, bookmarking it, closing the tab, then five minutes later trying to find the bookmark to reopen the tab and then delete the bookmark, just to stay within a silly six tabs rule. Have you considered that maybe you're the one doing something wrong? Some humility and empathy could help you out.

doublerabbit 2y ago
> The moment you go on HN, skim the front page and open a queue of HN submissions to read I don't do that. Open one, article, read, close and than open another. And there is no right or wrong way to web browsing. There are two types of people, those who use a bookmark bar and those who use tabs. Myself, I don't get mass tab usage. Use tab, close tab. Reopen if I really need that page again. I ensure that all usage for that tab is exhausted before. On very rare occasions have I needed to reopen that tab. If really need it, I'll bookmark it in the bookmark bar. Password managers, PAM, IMC and all other miscellaneous utilities are all things in my realm yet looking at my work screen now I only a total of three tabs open. Anything that would be useful to have open normally times out anyway. And my actual inbox is organised to where no email sits in the inbox. A new email gets copied to a folder via filter, marked as read. I then delete the email from the inbox once read knowing it exists elsewhere. Makes Mondays very easy to get in to work.
peteforde 2y ago
Here's the thing, champ: you downvoted my comment because you didn't read beyond the first line, which is evident from the fact that you completely ignored the approach that I was advocating. 1. Install OneTab 2. Open all of the links on HN you want in separate tabs 3. Hit the OneTab extension icon You now have all of those tabs waiting for you, across all devices, sorted not just by date but by session. You can move tabs between those sessions if you have a way you like to organize things. If you go back and read your reply, it quickly becomes clear that you didn't even try to understand what I was showing you. Also: pinned tabs != ephemeral tabs. This is very much a false equivalency. If you have mandatory tabs, that's very different from pinning a tab to come back to it later. Seriously, just install OneTab and enjoy your life a bit more.