[tharkun__]

I 'get' that I just don't get it ;)

O1 sure I leave stuff open to remind me too. Like the PR I didn't finish reviewing. But once I'm done I close the tab.

O2/O3 I get that but I don't need a tab open. I use Firefox and no bookmarks. I just type what I remember to find something specific. Let's say I need to revisit a google doc about a certain topic. I'll type "docs <topic title part>" and most likely it'll be one of the top 3 results shown from my browsing history. I find _everything_ that way and I just don't get why I'd need to leave the tab open or sort things into bookmarks with categories and such.

O4 I am particularly talking about work so I wonder how this would play a role but who knows.

O5/O6 this seems largely to correspond to O1 if you ask me. I do sometimes find duplicate tabs open and close them or I find reminder tabs that I no longer need because something else reminded me of them but I did that task in a new tab, which is since closed. The point is that if I have only maybe 20 tabs total open it's easy to clean up. I would agree that having 500 open would just be overwhelming. Then again I'm known to go over our 'backlog' and just close 500 tickets in an hour long session because our product managers can't apparently keep the backlog at a reasonable size.

[pseudalopex]

Framing everything in terms of the specific way you do things is unlikely to lead to understanding people whose needs or minds differ from yours.

[tharkun__]

I get that people's minds work differently. I don't get why they don't use the tools that are there to help them. They just have to be used.

As an example I get that some people just have to categorize things. That's ok. But why then use these insanely nested bookmark folder trees to try and find stuff and failing? If it doesn't work, try something else.

I didn't figure out the current (as you say very specific) way of doing things overnight. It's a constantly evolving thing. I get that someone might not know for example that some of this is possible and thus can't bring themselves to close tabs for fear of not finding it again. Once you know though how powerful and easy the search is, is there just a psychological barrier some people can just never break through?

Can you provide any insight into that?

[pseudalopex]

Saying people just have to use the tools you do means you don't really get people's minds work differently.

It ignores people have different needs too. You work with reasonably named Google docs. Other people work with reports with only different query strings. Or PDF data sheets with no titles and inscrutable names. Or they just have to juggle more tasks.

The person you replied to doesn't seem to worry about losing pages. And the paper implied people who keep tabs open don't use nested bookmark folders.

Your system is specific. But the methods aren't special. Consider others tried them and found them lacking before imagining they have psychological trouble.