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.

[brin_bellway]

Ooh, are we talking about different approaches to tab management? It's interesting to see how much variation there is in that.

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Most of my tab proliferation is Tumblr posts that I haven't decided whether to reblog yet, or haven't decided how to phrase my response.

I make tab-clearing part of my ~weekly backup routine. There are currently 6 - 7 tabs I don't routinely clear:

• My Dreamwidth reading page


• Two series I've been reading on and off (I try not to keep more than two items in this category, and have been known to downgrade an in-progress series to cold storage if I find I've lost interest for the moment and want to replace its tab with a different one)


• The interface for my Archive Team warrior


• Whichever bit of my Wordpress I'm currently working on formatting


• The equivalent section of my tumblr-utils archive to compare it to


• [if I'm active on Flight Rising at the time] A Google Sheet that helps me keep track of my store inventory and calculate the profit potential of various game activities (separate window from the other tabs, so I can look at it and a Flight Rising window side by side)

The list of things I want to archive but haven't yet is kept in my notepad program. The list of media tabs I'm curious about consuming, don't expect to want multiple times (so no archiving), and realistically will probably never get around to is kept in my browser's bookmarks.

I generally don't have more than 15 tabs or so open at any given time. I so often hear about people having dozens or hundreds of tabs, and I'm not sure how that even works on a logistical level. Where do you get the RAM for all that?

(Of course, I also hear about people complaining what a data hog Chrome is, when the whole reason I switched to Chrome was because it was vastly *less* of a data hog than Firefox. Ever since Quantum, Firefox memory-leaks all to hell, needing to be restarted every [few hours] to [couple days] lest it render the whole computer unusably laggy. Is there some RAM-light browser all the cool kids are using? Can it run XKit?)