In the past, I've always been a no-extra-tabs-open kind of guy: I only open tabs when I need them, and I instinctively close them when I'm done using them. I often hit Command-Q (and usually I hit the Q like ten times to be more emphatic, which I've been mocked for) before closing my computer.
Anyway, I've been curious to try out the many-tabs lifestyle that most other people seem to use. It also seems like a good time for me, since I have various projects I'm sort of working on, and this may lower friction towards making small changes! However, it's also possible the many tabs will make me more distractable. Other potential issues include lag and faster battery drainage.
I'm planning to try out the many-tabs lifestyle on my computer for seven days: from now until Friday, July 21 at 9pm. After that, I make no promises. On my phone, I will simply remain no-extra-tabs.
I just made seven "desktops" on my computer (college stuff, puzzlemaking, blog, "comms panel", music, personal spreadsheets, misc) and opened some relevant tabs on each of them. I'm not wedded to this particular implementation of the many-tabs lifestyle, so if y'all many-tabs people have any suggestions, I'm happy to take them, as long as it still fits under the umbrella of many-tabs.
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I have two words for everyone: Tab Wrangler. All of the utility of keeping tabs open in case you need them in an hour, but with none of the clutter from leaving them open a day or more/having to go back and close them.
@Timothy I have more than 30 bookmarks just on the one folder where I bookmark websites to make they show up a few letters earlier and in the first result lol
@SavioMak That makes sense. But having 50 bookmarks of things I want to read or so would be too much for me.
I feel bad about breaking my promise, and delayed the euphoric Command-Q for basically all of today because of this promise. But ultimately it came down to two factors:
My computer is nine years old and much slower with many tabs open. This kinda negates the advantage of everything being accessible since it takes more time to load than it would if I just opened the tab.
I just...I have things I need to do this week, and I developed an aversion to opening my computer. The idea of opening it felt so overwhelming because it would just reminds me of all the productive things I could be doing that I wasn't doing (many more than I have the capacity to do). I was stressed for other reasons today, but I think the tabs definitely contributed to my stress. Interestingly, I've been doing a lot of cleaning these last two days, which might be stress cleaning. But yeah, I think the thing I need right now is to be more focused, not less.
Overall, I hate many-tabs. It does not work for me at all. Sometimes having two desktops is nice, like while playing a game to tab over to messaging people, or on Election Night or something when there's a lot of breaking news from different sources. Or maybe if I had a computer that could handle it better. But overall, it's too slow and it stresses me out and I can't get work done like this.
Yes, mayyyyyyybe if I gave it a few more days, I'd adjust a little more. But ultimately I'm not burning five days for that. Adjust your confidence in my precommitments accordingly
Update: over the last few hours, I have developed an aversion to opening my computer (am writing this from my phone)
@Imbens Yes. Although it might just be more about the various tasks I could be accomplishing (and therefore more about my unproductivity on these than the new tab thing). My instinct is to blame the tabs, but I’m not sure.
I was playing MTG earlier today while multitasking a bit and it was sort of nice to three-fingers-swipe to Discord? I guess?
@SavioMak It's terrible on an Ipad, where you can accidentally swipe up and lose dozens of tabs you had open for research... That's why I've finally caved in and started using Chrome's reading list despite privacy concerns.
@Conflux Firefox used to be very fast with many tabs on Linux, but after ~89 or so there was some type of slowdown that never got fixed, and I've been forced after 2 years to adjust my many-tab life style down to something more manageable (from 1000+ to 100+)