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"I often go on lengthy 'research 'sessions' where I have a search site open in a tab at the far left, and I command+click the results that look interesting to open them in new tabs. I read through the new tabs from left to right, gathering information and command+clicking links as I go, resulting in a vaguely exponential increase in tabs and information. When I finally find what I was looking for, it is amidst a tangled web of tabs. To hang on to it, I make a mental note of the 'path' I took to get there. To return later, I often repeat the original search in google, and use the purple 'visited' links as breadcrumbs leading me back to the page I want. I don't bother with history or bookmarks as they are both unmanageable in their current state. I find myself asking 'what did I search for again?' when looking for old data" | "I often go on lengthy 'research 'sessions' where I have a search site open in a tab at the far left, and I command+click the results that look interesting to open them in new tabs. I read through the new tabs from left to right, gathering information and command+clicking links as I go, resulting in a vaguely exponential increase in tabs and information. When I finally find what I was looking for, it is amidst a tangled web of tabs. To hang on to it, I make a mental note of the 'path' I took to get there. To return later, I often repeat the original search in google, and use the purple 'visited' links as breadcrumbs leading me back to the page I want. I don't bother with history or bookmarks as they are both unmanageable in their current state. I find myself asking 'what did I search for again?' when looking for old data" | ||
[[User:ramseynasser|ramseynasser]] | [[User:ramseynasser|ramseynasser]] | ||
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"I tend to have a lot of things going on at once with my tabs - right now, for example, I have three different webmail sessions; an article that my mom sent me last week that I haven't read yet; a page on an interactive fiction game I've been meaning to download and play; information on an NSF grant program that I decided not to apply for but want to keep in mind; a couple of pages about an online game I'm currently obsessed with; two tabs on White Nose Syndrome for a school project; and I could go on. In my mind these belong in groups - Leisure; Things I Need to Read or Store; Mail; School Projects. I sometimes group tabs into separate windows, but there's no easy way to restore that group of tabs if I close the window, so I tend to just leave everything open. I've tried using Session Managers to hang onto tab groups, but all the ones I've tried cause performance issues and they often crash the browser altogether." [[User:margaretmoser|margaretmoser]] | |||
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