Ask HN: How to align browser tabs with its' contexts?

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3 points by arpanetus 1214 days ago

I usually have hundreds of unorganised tabs that I can barely arrange. I just open a different window for a different context (supposedly learning a new thing => new window). But often I don't finish, thus leave them in the midst.

One viable solution I could come up with was the "different profile" thing (e.g. work profile, school profile). Yet opening up another profile for a temporary context doesn't sounds nice (supposedly it might be some tutorial that might take a week). And I don't want to close those tabs/tab groups and leave them like that, so even in that case they occupy some space (mental, or RAM).

Is there a thing which did help you to organise these tabs, so that you could close them and return after a while without actually losing anything?

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CrypticShift 1214 days ago

There is a whole industry of "tab managers" and "session managers". I'm a "bookmarks" person, so I will just give you one (chrome) suggestion: Tabs Outliner [1] is a popular option with a tree of "contexts". There are many alternatives [2]

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk... [2] https://alternativeto.net/software/tabs-outliner/

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arpanetus 1214 days ago

I finally found out about tab folders in chromium-like browsers. Bookmarks are also fine, yet I always thought they're clumsy.

I assume it works for me. Maybe someone still has a better solution.

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