• Signtist@bookwyr.me
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    5 days ago

    I view bookmarks as being for sites that I intend to visit regularly enough to warrant making a handy link. A tab is for a place I plan to visit once, probably soon, but not right now, so I want to remember it, but not to the point where I’ll make a dedicated bookmark link to it. Usually it’s a video I want to watch at some point when I have more time, or a recipe I think I’ll try making in a few days. The issue is when I don’t get the motivation to do what I kept the tab open to do, so I start getting a backlog of tabs that I simultaneously don’t want to lose because I kept them open for a reason, but I don’t want to visit because there are too many of them to parse through.

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      5 days ago

      I just use bookmarks for that. If it isn’t worth bookmarking I’m just not gonna bother. I’ll find it in the history if I want to for whatever reason (almost never happens)

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        if i bookmark something i might as well have deleted it (my object permanence is bad). when it’s a tab i can at least see it there at all times

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          There’s the bookmarks bar. I use it mostly for most used stuff but if you have space there you could just save stuff there. It is visible but not as a tab

          But if tabs work for you, no reason to change that tbh

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            4 days ago

            I use my bookmark bar for nostolgia. All those sites from middle/high school that I am never clicking again and likely don’t exist anymore. But seeing the names of the sites bring me joy at times.

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      5 days ago

      Look into extensions like “read it later” or the like if your browser doesn’t support it out of the box. It is a list of things you need to read/view once and when done, it is removed from the list.

      • Signtist@bookwyr.me
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        Nah, the tabs have to be in the way. The inconvenience of having a lot of tabs is the point. If i can just export a list or turn them into bookmarks and forget about them, I will. It’s like the 10 different alarms that I have on my phone that go off every week on the off chance that this time I’ll actually be motivated to do what they’re reminding me to do. I always get around to it eventually, it just takes time.