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Open tabs are kinda halfway between history and bookmarks, for me. They generally represent a train of thought or investigation, but they have less clutter than

Open tabs are kinda halfway between history and bookmarks, for me. They generally represent a train of thought or investigation, but they have less clutter than history, since I do close irrelevant ones as I'm navigating (and AFAIK there's no way in most browsers to show the history as a tree of navigation paths like tree style tabs). Bookmarks I perhaps should use more but they are liable to quickly grow out of control as well, and they require a lot more active thought to organise, in comparison to a tree of tabs. I would absolutely love a browser to properly unify this, I think there's a few smaller ones but they don't seem to be good enough to switch away from firefox and tree style tabs.

PaulHoule 1y ago
Personally I find tabs destroy my productivity completely almost immediately and I have to be aggressive about closing them. The consistent failure of bookmark managers is notable, doesn't matter if they are pure web-based or implemented as browser extensions the story is always that they're a "roach motel", somebody put in 30,000 bookmarks and realizes a few years later they didn't look back at them once. A counter-example is my Fraxinus bookmark manager/personal webcrawler/image sorter that I've been running for about 15 months and probably accumulated about 1 million images (was 700k last I looked) I look at images from it every day. The backlog of image galleries in the primary classification queue is about 1000 and I dunno, I could probably put "bigtags" [1] on another 1500 galleries but I don't feel like I have to, it's not like I don't have enough content already. I wish I had some consistent and simple way to export both bookmarks and history into all my devices so I could feed them into my AI, make them portable, etc. [1] tags engineered to work with automated classification, namely it is possible for tags to be positive/indeterminate/negative
- josephgoksu 1y ago
  I strongly recommend using https://markwise.app https://markwise.app
hollerith 1y ago
>Open tabs are kinda halfway between history and bookmarks, for me. How do you feel about the fact that the author (of the web page) gets to decide whether a link opens in a new tab? Point is that I ignore tabs unless I'm alternating between 2 tabs or a need a placeholder for a few minutes. If arbitrary web sites could add to my the list of bookmarks kept by my browser, I'd ignore that list, too.
- rcxdude 1y ago
  I do usually have control, via left click or middle click, but it is annoying when this is overridden in one direction or another, yes (and I sometimes do a dance of opening/closing/rearranging tabs to get the result I want)

PaulHoule 1y ago

Personally I find tabs destroy my productivity completely almost immediately and I have to be aggressive about closing them. The consistent failure of bookmark managers is notable, doesn't matter if they are pure web-based or implemented as browser extensions the story is always that they're a "roach motel", somebody put in 30,000 bookmarks and realizes a few years later they didn't look back at them once. A counter-example is my Fraxinus bookmark manager/personal webcrawler/image sorter that I've been running for about 15 months and probably accumulated about 1 million images (was 700k last I looked) I look at images from it every day. The backlog of image galleries in the primary classification queue is about 1000 and I dunno, I could probably put "bigtags" [1] on another 1500 galleries but I don't feel like I have to, it's not like I don't have enough content already. I wish I had some consistent and simple way to export both bookmarks and history into all my devices so I could feed them into my AI, make them portable, etc. [1] tags engineered to work with automated classification, namely it is possible for tags to be positive/indeterminate/negative

josephgoksu 1y ago
I strongly recommend using https://markwise.app https://markwise.app

hollerith 1y ago

>Open tabs are kinda halfway between history and bookmarks, for me. How do you feel about the fact that the author (of the web page) gets to decide whether a link opens in a new tab? Point is that I ignore tabs unless I'm alternating between 2 tabs or a need a placeholder for a few minutes. If arbitrary web sites could add to my the list of bookmarks kept by my browser, I'd ignore that list, too.

rcxdude 1y ago
I do usually have control, via left click or middle click, but it is annoying when this is overridden in one direction or another, yes (and I sometimes do a dance of opening/closing/rearranging tabs to get the result I want)