Focus a bit more on the underlying problem of "I need" than on methods of tab organization. I've occasionally described browser crashes where I completely lose tab-state as something akin to a forest fire. Immediately devastating, but ultimately beneficial for the forest.
Go through your tabs one-by-one and spend a moment with it. Look at it. Try to remember why you got there in the first place. What rabbit hole were you exploring? Why are you reluctant to set this tool down?
What is your brain associating this tab to? Consider making a bookmark folder for that topic. Append your own personal keywords to the page title. Chrome has a search for bookmarks, use it.
I find this process to be insanely beneficial. I'm generally reluctant to let anything go and need to spends few conscious moments 'saying goodbye' to things like these to free me from worry. I now practice zero-tolerance new browser session at work each morning. At home I have one Chrome instance with ~5 tabs on average.
I'm part of a team looking to build a browser extension that provides you with much of this contextual history. A mindfulness tool in a way, which records the steps taken as you traverse a rabbit hole.
Are you pretty diligent with returning to your bookmarks when you're looking for things—rather than conducting fresh Google searches?
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Focus a bit more on the underlying problem of "I need" than on methods of tab organization. I've occasionally described browser crashes where I completely lose tab-state as something akin to a forest fire. Immediately devastating, but ultimately beneficial for the forest.
Go through your tabs one-by-one and spend a moment with it. Look at it. Try to remember why you got there in the first place. What rabbit hole were you exploring? Why are you reluctant to set this tool down?
What is your brain associating this tab to? Consider making a bookmark folder for that topic. Append your own personal keywords to the page title. Chrome has a search for bookmarks, use it.
I find this process to be insanely beneficial. I'm generally reluctant to let anything go and need to spends few conscious moments 'saying goodbye' to things like these to free me from worry. I now practice zero-tolerance new browser session at work each morning. At home I have one Chrome instance with ~5 tabs on average.
This is brilliant—and resonates with a few posts I found from over a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4714864
I'm part of a team looking to build a browser extension that provides you with much of this contextual history. A mindfulness tool in a way, which records the steps taken as you traverse a rabbit hole.
Are you pretty diligent with returning to your bookmarks when you're looking for things—rather than conducting fresh Google searches?