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by doublerabbit 922 days ago
I don't understand those who have 40+ Tabs open. Whats so important about them, are they StackOverflow, Github pages?

I'm not trying to diss. I get it if you use WebUi of messenger services and maybe stats but can't think what-else it would be. I'd rather open a new browser window for those important services.

Myself gets overwhelmed when I have more than five. I use the bookmark bar more than tabs but an excessive amount of tabs? I would see it as a form of data hoarding...

I close all tabs when I finish work daily. As the same that I move all emails in to a week ending folder ensuring that I have a clean mailbox for the following Monday.
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danpalmer 922 days ago
Right now I've got email, todolist, 3 docs, 2x HN tabs, 6 bugs that I've been working on today, 5 experiment reports that I've been investigating, ~10 iterations of build results as I've been working through fixing a bug.

Do I need all of these? No. But figuring out which I don't need is more work so some will just accumulate for a while and once every few days I close everything.

Arc does a good job of expiring old tabs and also of letting me bump the priority of a tab in various ways.

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infinityplus1 922 days ago
It is for the same reason people prefer to sleep or hibernate there PCs instead of shutting them down. You don't want any breaks in your flow. Closing tabs and opening them again from bookmarks is annoying.

I keep tabs like production and development Firebase console, Github, Gmail, Trello, Slack, Google Cloud logs, documents/spreadsheets, Google searches, documentation/articles for features/bugs etc.

It makes my work faster since I everything I need is always available in the tab bar. Feature/bug related tabs are closed only when they are fully done and deployed to Production.

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chuckhendo 922 days ago
It helps to not just think of them as open tabs - personally I'd be overwhelmed with 40+ tabs as well, and that's exactly why a traditional browser frustrates me.

Think of them more as a combination tab/bookmark. Then tabs that are opened that aren't "bookmarked/pinned" are in a separate area; you can even set those to automatically close at the end of the day if you want

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