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Re:When the Tab Comes Due: Challenges in the Cost Structure ... by turtletontine on Sunday May 09, 2021 @03:34PM (#27098985)
Wishing OP the best, and maybe your workflow is good for you, but 1000+ tabs is insane to me. I don't understand what you could possibly need 1000 tabs for.

I'm certainly guilty of keeping too many tabs open I'll never read, and about once a month I declare "tab bankrupty" and close most of them.

When I'm doing research, I save papers in Zotero instead of just keeping a tab open. That way I can organize them how I wanted and keep notes associated with them.

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Re:When the Tab Comes Due: Challenges in the Cost Structure ... by em-bee on Sunday May 09, 2021 @10:33PM (#27102108)
that's the difference. closing all tabs once a month prevents tabs from accumulating. either that or having the discipline to close tabs as soon as i know i that i don't need them.

when i search for something, i easily open more than a dozen tabs at once. if i do that multiple times a day, then i get into the hundreds quickly. each collection of tabs is an issue i work on. at some point i have to decide if i want to keep those tabs or if i want to restart the search when i get back to that issue.

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