@Edent I'm using share-links, a small self-hostable service I created. Here's my own instance: https://links.l3m.in :)

@Edent David Allen's "Getting Things Done" is helpful in this regard:

1) if it can be done in 2 minutes, just do it

2) If not, record it in a system you trust, and that you review regularly

I have a to-do list app (well, a vibe-coded clone of Cultured Code's Things, which is sadly not available on Linux) where I save the link, then move it to one of the projects ("Learning", "Software to build", etc). Tabs can get lost after a browser crash or bug.

@Edent A self-hosted Linkding instance at https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding is running inside my VPN. I save bookmarks using tags with priorities (tr1, tr2, tr=to read). Additionally Hister at https://hister.org helps with recall.

@Edent
I browse using Vivaldi and can pin regularly used tabs, group sets of tabs on a topic and rename groups but probably more interesting to you is the use of Workspaces - save a workspace of tabs, say for open benches and then whenever you want to work on that activate the appropriate workspace. Works really well for me - well done @Vivaldi !

@Edent I'm pretty happy with @wallabag or using bookmarks in Mastodon. Do I always come back to read things? No, of course not but at least I know where to look at when I remember something weeks later. And it keeps my browser clean because as soon as I can't read the titles in the tabs any more there are too many.

@Edent about 2 years ago I just gave up… now I just … close them. The overwhelming feeling of relief is incredible. And yet a hint of betrayal and even loss lingers.

@Edent This thread is interesting. I'll keep its tab open and come back to it later. 😅

(Thanks for asking this question. 574 open tabs here at the moment. On one device.)

@Edent I use a browser shortcut I wrote (for iOS) that extracts the page title and URL and appends them to a specific text file. Very basic but sort of works for me.

@Edent
I am here waiting patiently for a solution. Those people closing all tabs don't share the same kind of mind. For me, all those tabs resemble the many parallel thoughts in my head and if there are only a few, I feel bored somehow.
As I can forget what interested me a few days ago and delete my history, a search would not help.

@Edent following replies with interest!

@Edent tab islands on opera are quite useful to me

@Edent Honestly? I can't cope with more than about 7 open. It does my head in!

@Edent I use a plugin that dumps the page as markdown into Obsidian (not o/s unfortunately) Frontmatter includes link to the original

@Edent I'm in the same boat. I plan on exploring Hister (https://hister.org/) as an alternative to the behavior.

My theory: if I can trust that the page has been indexed and saved by a better engine than Firefox's history search, maybe I'll change behaviors?

@Edent I wrote an extension that dumps all open tabs into my Readeck tagged by date. I can still retrieve everything, but it doesn't clutter anymore and anything I don't need can be silently forgotten. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabs-to-readeck/