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by jlokier
2324 days ago
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Perhaps you're proposing to put all the kitchen utensils in the garbage and go shopping for new ones each time you cook; that's surely even weirder! If you're proposing that bookmarks are the equivalent of tidy drawers (and a tidy mind), then I wonder, why you think tabs are not. In Firefox, Bookmarks and Tabs seem quite similar apart from the UI for handling them. However Bookmarks record only the page title and URL, and organising them is so much work that picking up a group of tasks with them is a pain. Whereas Tabs record where you were on the page as well (scroll position), and automatically product a track of grouped, time-ordered tasks that were spawned, which can then be pruned. (Neither is ideal; I would like to be able to highlight text on a page or a region, to attach a note to remind me what task I've set the page aside to resume later, and to have a fast, sleek UI for reorganising later in a pruning phase. Neither Bookmarks or Tabs provide these things unfortunately, and neither does any extension I've tried so far.) When a comment above asks what sort of workflow, my answer is that at least there is a workflow. Bookmark land is where tasks go to die because too much context is lost, and not enough is captured automatically. |
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I think your comment touches on the essential thing here, which is that web pages have the characteristics of tools, but also of tasks. Browsers are good at the tools part but don’t do anything for the tasks part.
I think trying to get the browser to handle the task component for you is the wrong answer. You can only do things that are equivalent to leaving the hammer by the door to remember to buy nails, and this scales terribly.
For all the concerns the many-tabbers have about “losing their place” they seem to be just always sort of lost. I can’t imagine the commenter above with thousands of tabs has everything he needs at his fingertips, and nothing he doesn’t.
My life has been easier since separating the tool and the task. Tasks go in my task manager (Todoist), and I put links to the relevant site if there is one. My toolbar has frequently visited sites with just their icons. My bookmarks folder is just a list of things I might be happy to run into someday. It would be no big loss if it was deleted. And last week I wrote a script for those pages that I just have to revisit, like an article I know I should read ten more times. It automatically creates a task in Todoist at increasing intervals (week, month, 3 months, 6 months, year) to reread X, with a link.