I wish I was the kind of person where 18 tabs was a lot.
Get into a habit of using your favorites bar and making folders. Then when your ready nuke your tabs.
Are you actively using all the tabs or are they old forgotten tabs while you only actively use one or two?
I only activevely use 10 max of my 400 tabs. But I haven’t fully given up on reading them. But the active tabs are shifting. I mostly open in a new tab, that includes lemmy
Not who you’re replying to, but I’m a tab forgetter and a tab user.
I try to clear my tabs daily, but regularly end up with 40-60 or so in a day at work. Plus tabs for PDFs, probably 10-15.
I’ll click back to about 50% of the tabs I open at least once. But if I go weeks without clearing my tabs, it is definitely diminishing returns.
PDFs I generally do reference back. I close my PDF program when I finish a few projects and get frustrated I can’t find my new one.
I started using Firefox Focus on mobile and Mullvad Browser on laptop which has largely fixed the problem for me lol. Instead of just leaving tabs open I bookmark them otherwise if my browser ever closes I would lose the tab. Then since everything was bookmarked I could at least be more organized into subfolders.
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Hyper focus ftw
