Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs
by Aerroon on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @02:04PM
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1. Bookmarks don't save state.
2. Bookmarks aren't a constant reminder in my field of vision that they exist.
3. It turns the "too many tabs problem" into "too many bookmarks".
Once in a while I "unload" my tabs by bookmarking them into a separate folder. I close the tabs and because there's no visual reminder anymore I forget they exist. Eventually I build to to another few hundred tabs and do it again.
Now I'm dealing with a couple of thousand bookmarks. I once deleted my old bookmarks. A couple of years later I went looking for a specific one. I knew exactly where the bookmark should've been, but I had deleted it.
Edit: all of this is to say that I'm not sure whether this has a technological problem. Maybe if the UX of bookmarks was really good.
2. Bookmarks aren't a constant reminder in my field of vision that they exist.
3. It turns the "too many tabs problem" into "too many bookmarks".
Once in a while I "unload" my tabs by bookmarking them into a separate folder. I close the tabs and because there's no visual reminder anymore I forget they exist. Eventually I build to to another few hundred tabs and do it again.
Now I'm dealing with a couple of thousand bookmarks. I once deleted my old bookmarks. A couple of years later I went looking for a specific one. I knew exactly where the bookmark should've been, but I had deleted it.
Edit: all of this is to say that I'm not sure whether this has a technological problem. Maybe if the UX of bookmarks was really good.