Lots of discussion of tabs and bookmarks and how to solve them once and for all with a new ontological hierarchy or server or service.. I get that, we’re nerds, that’s what we do.<p>But if, like me, your tab clutter is more a problem of psychology: not being ready to close things because you <i>might</i> need them later (even though you won’t), plus a distinct lack of interest in spending hours trying to perfectly curate a museum of links, here’s a trick I picked up years ago that has continued to work reasonably well for me.<p>I have a bookmark folder named after the current year and month (e.g. “2021-08 Bookmarks”). I keep it in my favorites/bookmarks bar. As I realize my tabs are starting to build up again, I fairly ruthlessly dump them all into the current month’s folder (it’s a pretty quick process of Cmd-D, Enter, Cmd-W). I don’t spend time trying to name them, organize them, or think about whether they deserve pride of place. I just put them there and close the tab, knowing I haven’t thrown any information away, and should I choose to get back to it, I at least have it <i>somewhere</i>. This is all my brain needs to let go of the need to have the tab open. This isn’t a chore I need to do every day (that would make me stop doing it), it’s an escape hatch I can use when I start to feel like my browser is a mess.<p>When I notice it’s a new month, I put the old one into an “Archives” folder and make a new one. Practically this doesn’t do much, but it does keep it from feeling like one giant trash pile.<p>While I’m doing this, I’ll usually make a smaller collection or two for things that I do actively need at the moment. E.g. if I’m working on a project and have opened a dozen tabs to research how to do part of it, or components I might want to buy, I’ll put them into a sub-folder of my top-level “Projects” or “Shopping” folders. These are the only other things that live in the favorites bar.<p>The main motivation for this is, again, to allow me to feel ok closing the tab. It might seem today that the information I looked up about hot-wire anemometers is super valuable because I’m thinking about measuring the delta-P in my air conditioning ducts to figure out if I can buy higher MERV filters without compromising evaporator performance. And then next week when I’m no longer as interested in doing that, I still invested that time in finding those articles and Amazon links and might get back to it.. the reality is that if I still care to do this in a year I could easily look it up again, but it doesn’t feel that way. So save it in Projects > Air Filters and get back to Tab Zero.