People seem to overcomplicate their usage patterns

[Pelican]

Keeping open dozens/hundreds/thousands of tabs is as sensible as keeping all your groceries on a huge pile in the middle of your kitchen

I don't see how this is the same when we might use tabs to mark leads that we are researching. They get closed when one arrives at either a destination or conclusion that it was not a path worth following further. Sometimes research takes days and sometimes we have other chores, but by keeping tabs open we can revisit at any time without much ado and continue when the opportunity allows.

So power failures and restarts caused by naughty Windows updating itself can be a RPIA. But maxing out on memory resources, well that just sucks to no end.

[Kerebron]

Pelican - that's exactly what bookmarks are for.

[Mæstro]

I don't see how this is the same when we might use tabs to mark leads that we are researching. They get closed when one arrives at either a destination or conclusion that it was not a path worth following further. Sometimes research takes days and sometimes we have other chores, but by keeping tabs open we can revisit at any time without much ado and continue when the opportunity allows.

I do something like this to keep a queue of fan fiction I would like to read, or large fan art albums on Pixiv that I would like to save, ready for when the time is ripe. I have a BanG Dream! fan manga, fan art collection, three fan fictions and a Quintessential Quintuplets story open for my later perusal at the moment. Bookmarks serve my academic research needs, whether preserving interesting leads or keeping track of citations for anything curious.

[Falna]

I don't see how this is the same when we might use tabs to mark leads that we are researching. They get closed when one arrives at either a destination or conclusion that it was not a path worth following further. Sometimes research takes days and sometimes we have other chores, but by keeping tabs open we can revisit at any time without much ado and continue when the opportunity allows.

I currently have 17 strands of internet research in various stages of completion. Rather than keeping a couple of hundred tabs open, the tabs for each strand are filed as a 'portfolio' in a research folder (using Tabs To Portfolio). Each portfolio is loaded, used and overwritten as and when I have time to work on them.

[andyprough]

Rather than keeping a couple of hundred tabs open, the tabs for each strand are filed as a 'portfolio' in a research folder (using Tabs To Portfolio). Each portfolio is loaded, used and overwritten as and when I have time to work on them.

Wow, very nice!

I will have to take that for a test drive.

[somdcomputerguy]

(using Tabs To Portfolio)

Wow, very nice!

I will have to take that for a test drive.

I'm gonna hafta try it too. I try to keep my # of tabs low, real low, like 3 or 4 max. I just usually saved the search result(s) page(s) that led me to end up with dozen(s) of tabs.