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Ask HN: How many tabs and bookmarks in browser do you have?

3 pointsby Al_Ptrover 1 year ago
I have two scenarios of browser usage.<p>For work.<p>One main window with relatively static set of 10 to 20 frequently used tabs. There are mails, task managers, monitorings, documentations, interesting work-related topics, ambient music streams etc.<p>One separate window with tabs for current task.<p>Which is pretty common way to stay focused and productive.<p>Everyday use.<p>This is a different story.<p>Generally, once or twice a month, I skim through my feeds and open all articles I&#x27;ve been interested in. Some of them I read right away but most are leaved for the next read them all phase.<p>At that moment, there could be up to 250 of opened tabs. Many of them are topic-related, or even with the same topic, but from different sources.<p>But because they are placed in order of opening, not by relevance, it is exhausting to search and switch between relevant tabs.<p>After reading, some articles may go to bookmarks. And when there are already thousands of them, this is no easy task neither.<p>Other articles may hang unread for a long time.<p>At some moment, I get to the point that I cant take it anymore. So, I have made a browser extension that keeps me sane.<p>It:<p>- groups relevant tabs and bookmarks closer to each other;<p>- breaks bookmarks into smaller, better manageable folders;<p>- closes or bookmarks tabs that are hang unread for a long time;<p>- reminds you about unread articles if you are reading the one with similar topic.<p>Clearly, a more tabs and bookmarks you have, a more helpful the extension become. But even in my work scenario it is very useful.<p>P.S.<p>I don&#x27;t have much karma to create HN Poll.<p>So, in your comments, please refer to the following answer variants for convenience.<p>How many tabs do you have? 0-20 tabs, 20-100 tabs, 100-200 tabs, 200-500 tabs, 500+ tabs.<p>How many bookmarks do you have? None, 1-100, 100-1000, 1000-5000, 5000+

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Al_Ptrover 1 year ago
More about the extension: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tochunka.com&#x2F;smart-tabs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tochunka.com&#x2F;smart-tabs&#x2F;</a>.<p>If you wanna try it.<p>Chrome Web Store: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;tochunka-smart-tabs&#x2F;djgplmmlaeekpcgjphelaboajmfgcdij" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;tochunka-smart-tab...</a>.<p>Addons Mozilla: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;uk&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;tochunka-smart-tabs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;uk&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;tochunka-smart-t...</a>.<p>Not for Safari as it does not support tabs.move(...) and bookmarks.move(...) API.
undopamineover 1 year ago
I had 26k chrome bookmarks at one point, stopped syncing to my mobile. Read somewhere they have an internal limit of 20k for mobile.<p>Exported and dumped it all in Obsidian, started again. Currently I have ~11.5k, 21k more (NSFW) in an alt profile that I&#x27;m not syncing.<p>I&#x27;m working to automate it, you might wanna join the waitlist: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;undopamine.com?src=hn" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;undopamine.com?src=hn</a>
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sodimelover 1 year ago
I usually have 2-10 tabs open, and ~100 bookmarks. But I save all the interesting links here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;links.l3m.in&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;links.l3m.in&#x2F;</a> . If this counts then I&#x27;m at 3.9k+ bookmarks.
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