Anti-tab-proliferation proposal

[ilzolende]

• If it's a good regularly-updating website, subscribe to it on Dreamwidth, unless
  • it lacks RSS
  • it's the county newspaper or my dad's blog or something.
• If it's a good image, save the image file with a meaningful filename.
• If it's a good text blog post, save the raw HTML or the text or something.
• If it's not good, why am I holding onto this tab? I should probably close it.

This is not yet a complete ruleset.

Comments

[contrarianarchon]

... Yeah, I need to work on this. Currently have 300+ tabs. Of those, I think maybe 100 can be cleared by actually following my version of this rule-set and saving things when I find them, rather than opening a new tab to do it later. This is augmented by the lack of nice ways to save files for many posts.

The rest, I don't think can be simply solved. I *could* make a bunch of accounts and then read fanfic through RSS/email notifications, but I mostly don't want to read it as it updates (And getting the emails or w/e and then ignoring them will either require more tabs or for me to constantly cringe away from some feed); saving it to read in chunks when I'm in the mood works better. Also, I have a bunch of tabs for stuff which I want to read, which will often take many hours or days per tab. Ditto with hitting "Track post" rather than opening a tab to track it with.

... I should merge my Ars Magica char-sheets, there are like 20 of them and google-docs seems super memory inefficient in that environment.