Good Morning from my Robotics Lab! This is Shadow_8472 with a side project of the week. Let’s get started!
When you’ve got RAM to spare, tabs and bookmarks seem almost interchangeable.
A few favorites kept open long-term turns into leaving forgotten research open with a few really good memes mixed in. Let’s just agree that a hundred or more tabs constitutes a problem I’ve been shirking for a while.
I’m working on just my primary daily driver, my upstairs workstation running EndeavourOS. My Internet tab organization on this machine uses three windows: one for ‘fun’, one for ‘blog’, and a ‘???’ one because I sometimes need two pages at once – such as an online game and a special calculator for it.
As with any other downsizing project, I used three categories: Close, Bookmark, and Recycle. Some tabs were obviously irrelevant, so I weeded them out. Most were saved as a bookmark organized by topic. Other tabs I wasn’t sure about or didn’t have a category, so I left them open for a while.
In total, I created categories for around 25 blog projects in phases ranging from concept to needing follow up or maintenance. These will need a second pass as many tabs only got a few seconds’ judgment call and in several cases, I made a “close enough” match.
Other finds of interest were memes I stashed away separately, duplicates I closed when I noticed them already bookmarked, and I even found and consolidated half a dozen web interfaces from my homelab alone.
Takeaway
Heavy duty tab management is something I should be doing more than once every few years – or even once an operating system in my case on this machine. I managed to get my three browser windows down to where two don’t have to scroll and the “fun” window only has two screen widths.
Final Question
How do you organize your online browsing habits?