Your open tabs are unfinished decisions, not bookmarks
An open tab often signals an unfinished decision: a flight not booked, a product to compare, instructions not followed. A simple workflow—capture the link, note the reason, set a return time, and close the tab—moves the decision out of the browser and into a trustworthy system. The method works with Notes, Reminders, or Tably, an iPhone app built for this handoff.
Close the tab only after the decision has somewhere trustworthy to return.
- zahrevsky
I've stopped closing tabs at some point and use them as a history.
Of course, I'm using the kind of browser that keeps your tabs as a horizontal list to the left, not as a ribbon at the top. New tabs appear at the top of the list and the bottom ones become history.
The main problem with browser history is that it doesn't remembers tab groups, which I use a lot. Not closing tab groups allows me to easily look up a topic I've been researching 3 months ago and see all of it's tabs.
- zahrevsky
The problem with bookmarks is that they have their own place that is only for bookmarks. It would be better if bookmarks would live in the same place tabs live.
It's like with pinned apps in Dock. Imagine if you couldn't pin apps in the Dock. Instead, there would be some separate place where all your pinned apps lived. That would be unusable.
Arc did something like that with pinned tabs, and I've heard multiple people say that it was the killer feature for them.
- Arthurian
Opening this in a new tab right now, definitely reading it later! Definitely. 100%.