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I saw a bunch of tweets with people commiserating over how many open tabs they have cute. 😂 here's how I manage mine 1. get @onetab, this lets you expand your "on-standby" tabs to several hundred https://t.co/IHVE5xSmcK
2. get a gaming mouse that has extra buttons on it, and map one button to "close tab" (cmd+w on chrome + mac), and another to "add bookmark". You can literally then bookmark and close tabs by barely moving a single finger on a single hand https://t.co/OVJQiLynYS
3. every week or so, export all your bookmarks into a HTML file. this is the simplest, cleanest, fastest, most elegant way I've found of doing it. you can copy these links into your Notes app, or Evernote, or whatever. I go with Notes https://t.co/LUzNAB9CAn
4. once you've exported your bookmarks into the html file, delete them from your browser. close all the tabs. it's processing time. sort your bookmarks into buckets according to your interests. add a string of words to each link to contextualize it + make it easier to search/find https://t.co/AVE2sW9m4y
over time, each of these folders effectively becomes an entire on-going infinite-game research project, and the meta set of folders becomes a map of your interests. if one folder gets too sprawling, make sub-folders how many bookmarks do I have? let's just say... https://t.co/ooRgOXqiqO
"have you tried pocket? pinboard? an extension manager? instapaper?" yes. all too tedious, all too slow. I operate at the level of URLs. I copy+paste URLs into notes without having to think about it. literally like this. it works for me, with 1000s of links across 10s of topics https://t.co/xQIsK0jucN
I think though it's important to know WHY you're opening so many tabs and WHY you're saving so many links. In my case, every folder of links is really and truly a research project for essays and books I intend to write. I'm obsessive; I hate losing good reference material https://t.co/FdhmzdtxIS
Also, manually copy+pasting links and adding a few words of context forces you to be *intentional* about your bookmarks. It side-steps the “I have 500 unread bookmarks in my Pocket” problem. Every bookmark is at least skimmed and put in a folder for future reading *when relevant* https://t.co/cIlpHTGw4A
@visakanv Trying out an extension Session Buddy that I really like, and seeing its export feature reminded me of this thread. Main fav thing is if chrome crashes, you can easily get all of your tabs back without having to "Restore" all dozens of them at once. https://t.co/J3MuUMg4id
