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by suprasanna 5393 days ago
I've had this exact same issue - or at least used to. This is my way of dealing with it:

Articles: Get Read it Later and install the FFX extension if that's your browser of choice. One click and it's accessible on your iPad or phone for reading later. Close those tabs.

Forms: If it's for funding, if it's for some organization, whatever - you just don't want to fill it out now. Grab the URL and mail to 1week@followupthen.com to get a reminder via email in a week. Close these tabs too.

Cool Web Apps you want to try out: Sign up then and there, then bookmark it. If it has a high enough value prop to you, you'll remember and come back to it. What now? Yep, close these tabs.

I found that the majority of tabs I had open fell under these categories. Using a mix of Read it later, followupthen and simply taking an action, I bet you could plow through those open tabs instead of going through more Cmd + T pain.

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I do 'Send to Kindle' - via http://kindlebility.com/. Awesome tool that helps me to keep the tabs down to just those shown in the images :(

Followupthen sounds like an awesome tool. Thanks for the heads-up. Will definitely look into it.

The truth is, I don't really keep cool web apps open. I either sign up or close it. The vast majority of those tabs open are things that either can't be sent to Kindle (e.g. Articles that have multi-pages and don't have a single page version, or something else).

I will try followupthen.com to see if that helps me.