[ebiester]

This is a user experience problem. It is easy to close a tab. It is hard to delete a bookmark, and easy to end up with a giant list of things you will never care about again.

50 tabs open is an indication that there is a stage between "I am actively reading" and "I care about this enough to make a permanent record."

[palerdot]

> This is a user experience problem. It is easy to close a tab. It is hard to delete a bookmark, and easy to end up with a giant list of things you will never care about again.

Precisely. Personally, I created a browser extension[0] for myself where I just save the webpage and set a reminder to read, and then just close the tab. This way, I just close the tab immediately, and then I would be able to revisit the page later via reminders. This kind of works fine for me.

[0] - https://palerdot.in/remindoro/

[tediousdemise]

Yeah, you hit the nail on the head. There should be some sort of middle ground, which I suspect is what tab groups try to solve.

My use case for tabs is quick ingestion of information that I tend to look at immediately, in rapid succession. Say, a Google search for something, and I open the top ten links to ingest the info.

I do not use bookmarks or keep tabs open. I do not save browser history either. Everything important to me, for the past or future, is in my head. If I want to bookmark something, I'll make a shortcut instead. Hacker News is a good example of a shortcut I'll make on my homescreen.

Overall, I think it's important to exercise our memory or we risk losing it. Having a cognitive load is important to our aging brains, and I feel that things like bookmarks and open tabs reduce our cognitive load too much. There are also privacy merits to not retaining bookmarks, tabs, or browser history. My ideal web browser is completely stateless.