Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good

Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by planb on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @07:04AM (#30345377)

I never understood how people can use browser tabs this way. If open tabs represent your backlog of stuff to come back to later, what represents your "current working set"? How can you concentrate on one task when there's so much other stuff open?

If I don't need something right now, it is stored in a read it later service (blog post, news articles) or a bookmark service (software projects, company web pages, etc).

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by rhizome on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @07:53AM (#30345785)

I don't run my brain according to computer science principles, but generally the "current working set" for me are the tabs furthest to the right of a browser window's tab bar.

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by marcosdumay on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @10:53AM (#30348100)

> computer science principles

Hum... Try process engineering principles. They have no relation to computer science, but with the area of knowledge that focus on organizing work.

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by rhizome on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @10:11PM (#30355937)

Well maybe we can agree it results in a similar level of insufferability.

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by bonoboTP on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @07:26AM (#30345547)

I use the Tree Style Tab add-on for Firefox. The working set can be one nested tree, like a directory in a file system. Or it can be a window, while I also have other windows with many tabs. I'm not well-organized though, just saying how it is.

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by alan-hn on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @07:38AM (#30345656)

For me its actually the browser window itself that represents a working set. I put all related tabs into their own windows and put the windows I'm not using on my supplemental monitor in the background so they're out of the way.

Otherwise I start drowning in browser windows and tabs

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by vidarh on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @07:54AM (#30345788)

My working set is a workspace. I send browser windows to separate workspaces if I context-switch apart from a few basics like e-mail etc. which has a workspace to itself.

I may start adding things to my "scratch" workspace, and then if I realise this is something that's turning into more than just visiting a single page I'll tear of the tab and send it somewhere.

Many of those workspaces can stay up for weeks or months.

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