My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information

Re:My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information by xk3 on Friday January 13, 2023 @11:57AM (#34370479)

The problem with a lot of these tools is there is no incremental escape hatch. I had 25,000 tabs last year which I saved as a line delimited text file.

Then every day I automate opening 7 tabs and I force myself to get through them. Sometimes it takes 2 minutes, sometimes it takes an hour. Sometimes it ends with me adding 50 more links to the text file. Sometimes the tabs are garbage but often they are worthwhile.

https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/computer/blob/main/.config/...

But over the past year I've gone through 2,555 tabs! So it seems like it is working. Maybe in 10 years I'll reach tab zero

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Re:My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information by real_jiakai on Friday January 13, 2023 @09:06PM (#34376629)

It's good to clean some content of your collections regularly. But I think tab zero is impossible. As you said that "Sometimes it ends with me adding 50 more links to the text file.", I have this experience too. For me, I just give it up as my limited energy. The endless urls on the Internet shouldn't be a burden for my life.

If my energy only supports me one hour every day on the Internet. I won't browser the Internet more than one hour. Reading some content over my limited energy is tired.

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