Ok. I have to accept that I have a problem. Despite a massive cull a few months ago, my current Firefox tab count, across 4 windows, has crept up to 2020. This madness has to stop. Problem is that for each one I want to close, I have to load it and look at it to make sure I can handle letting it go. I may be some time. Wonder where this activity would fall with regard to our national 'GDP'.
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Maybe we should code a Tab Punisher plugin. One that says "You reached the maximum of 2,000 open tabs. I closed 50 random tabs to free headspace. Please be more careful". 😆
@lightweight, pardon me but if you need some random extra tabs, just keep hitting control/command + T 😁
https://iadefensa.com/solutions/new-tab-traffic-randomizer-chromium/
I am enjoying Vivaldi’s workspace and tab stacking functions to give me the illusion of control over ‘I’ll come back to that…’
@lightweight @aligorith leave some pages for the rest of us!
@lightweight We probably need to build a new power station to cope with the energy demand.
@billbennett hang on there - there's no 'AI' involved, and this house is generating its own power by day 😂 😎
@lightweight How much have you gotten familiar with tab groups? Did you know you can save and close them? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups
@paw yeah, tried that... but then I can't remember what I had and never find them again. 😅 But every time I do a cull, I end up finding stuff I really wanted to look at or save for various reasons, which helps me justify just leaving them around. I already have a plugin which removes unused tabs from memory (i.e. unloads them) but keeps them there as stubs to be reopened if I visit them again. It's allowed me to continue functioning, but it's a crutch.
Guilty as charged!
That's why I think I got over 9000 on one profile at one point. Hmm... Maybe I should double check what the current count is
@lightweight @paw There's a @davidrevoy cartoon about you (and me, my 705 tabs, my handy wood collections, and the bins of useful things in my lab)
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1139/quest-item-management
@bigblen @paw @davidrevoy yup, that's us all right. I think we might need to create a community website for the similarly-afflicted. Could monitor that in a tab. Or maybe a group of tabs... 🤔 🤦🏻
@lightweight maybe you need to declare tab bankruptcy
I had exactly the same problem.. until at a certain moment suddenly my browser crashed and all open tabs were forgotten. I was suddenly back at one tab. Oh noos, disaster! 😱
And you know what happened? Nothing happened. Those tabs were all backlog. Interesting. Must read, should process. But once they were lost it was a relief, a burden from the shoulders.
You might say that today with Social experience design I study the solution development process for solving wicked problems. SX is anchored on a simple life philosophy which is based on the assumption that "simple solutions still exist".
With my tab hoarding I didn't honor that assumption. Based on observation that everything we need to solve wicked problems is already available. All the wisdom, knowledge, common sense, and life experience. It is all available in abundance, lying in the street, as we trample on it on our hurried day-to-day.
The information isn't the problem. Being too swamped to process it is.
Good opportunity to tell a bit more about that simple life philosophy. It is called innercircles, and only has an 'eternal teaser' that describes it, at https://innercircles.community
There should not be more than that. Innercircles stands for ones personal life philosophy and specifically those universal wisdoms and common sense things that all humans have in common with each other. As well as the things that make each individual unique.
There will not be a thick book "philosophy behind SX" that people throw at each other's head during a conversation. Nor need there be courseware and certification like you have with Scrum and so many other methodologies.
I notice that in any discourse about fresh new ideas, people throw tomes of wisdom at each other. "This has been done before, here read this book". Completely stifling brainstorm and innovation.
The information was never the problem. Making time for attentive listening, for reflection and deliberation is where it hurts.
While innercircles is but a simple life philosophy it takes on the biggest challenge:
What is needed to not only design / imagine a better alternative to hypercapitalism, but actually introduce it into society such that it becomes the prevailing system.
This is the most wickedest problem of all. As root cause driving the design of SX methodology until recently I always took Hypercapitalism, i.e. capitalism run amok.
It is very valuable as a root cause. Among others it is e.g. causing climate change. A lot of activism against climate change is just fighting symptoms.
Social experience design scales from the single individual to global society, and does so by making perspective shifts:
https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#pyramid-of-perspective
Hypercapitalism is root cause at level of societal constructs. I put our inability to listen to each other due to hectic hypercapitalist rat race as another root cause. This cause exists one perspective deeper, affecting the inter-personal relationship level.
@smallcircles @be I know you're right. I just haven't achieve acceptance yet. Still... in... denial. Made possible by having way too much RAM. I need to create a self-healing system. Might need to pull a few RAM sticks.
😅 For me saying it is simple, but practicing it is still hard. Some information "is just such a gem" that it can't be just ignored. Must.. process.. info.
On the opposite side of the tab hoarder urge, is a mindfulness practice. The ability to let go, and be satisfied with the information we can handle today. Plus the beautiful realisation that the internet is still a wonderful treasure chest full of gems, to be discovered at the right moment and the right time :)
I am again at 200 tabs or so, but I am no longer worried about them. They are handy sticky notes on a fridge, but if they fall off I am not worried. If they were really important I'd have processed them immediately.
@be in the past, like an uncontrolled burn, a Firefox crash would wipe out my tab surplus, never to be seen again... allowing for a new season of open tabs to emerge (though traumatising me). But now there're good tab & session management tools. My only complaint is that I tend to lose my nesting of vertical tabs after a browser restart... Maybe I should consider a controlled burn. After all, I do now use Readeck to record stuff that I want to retain (it's better than bookmarks), but... Hmm.
@lightweight I use an extension to prevent me from having more than 4 tabs. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/maxtabslimit/
@be I'm not sure I could make that level of switch. I think I need to pare things down gradually. It feels like too big a task at the moment, though.
@lightweight You're bringing the whole country down!
@downbeatdan yes, my balance of tabs are all akilter.
