Bookmarking and sorting 7k tabs sounds awful.

My browser deletes open tabs when closing. Otherwise I would drown in chaos.

There are three types of tab,

1: tabs I absolutely need to see again and know I never will if I bookmark them, because I never go into my bookmarks.

2: tabs that don't need to be bookmarked at all because I never need to see them again I just got distracted and didn't close them or thought I'd be interested in them later but then wasn't.

3: tabs pertaining to one of the seven projects I'm currently actively working on simultaneously.

Bookmarks solve nothing.

Remember the 3-2-1 rule for backups of record breaking sessions.

Same, clean slate looks so good. I look things up and sort them into order before they grow into unholy mess.

When I switched to Ubuntu I wrestled with whether or not to have the home folder on the desktop (I kept it). On my laptop I run Mint and it’s a completely clean desktop. Same with my iPhone (I archived all my apps).

I hate digital clutter and regularly clear out old data I don't want anymore. My browser is set to clear everything when I close it. If I find something useful, I bookmark it. Once in a while I'll sort out any unsorted saved bookmarks and make a backup of the cleaned up list.

I'm also similar in real life though. I'm quite minimal and prefer only to have what is useful or meaningful to me.

My digital life and personal life are very similar.

Glad to see someone like me. If it's important it gets bookmarked or noted down. Browser clears tabs and history on close (used to clear all cookies as well, but that got too cumbersome, now just clears most of them). I also turn off my PC at the end of the day and turn it back on the next day (and not just because I couldn't get hibernation to work), so I always have a clean slate

I’m starting to come around to this thought about myself as well. Not only do I also don this instead of a million stressful open tabs, when it’s work adjacent stuff that I’ll probably need to reference back again I take my own notes on the content in Obsidian, snip and paste in screenshots I might want to reference from the web page, and include command examples or code block snippets verbatim, and save the hyperlink in a yaml header parameter. I’ve gone to reference stuff just to find it completely scoured off the internet and The Internet Archive having it being hit or miss.

Everyone is all hype for local LLM’s ingesting and referencing internal/personal knowledge bases in their responses, and I’m over here like “uh I’ll just hit cmd+shift+f thx”.

Tree style tabs and unloaded tabs has it easier than bookmarking imo It's like I can navigate all my bookmarks spatially, activating any of them rather rhan navigating through the ui to see which link was which

bookmarks are for repeated access, tabs are for one-time things that you're going to get to any day now

In my experience the bookmark button is essentially the, 'This is interesting and I'll check this out later but never really will' button.

Now, I have a thousand unsorted bookmarks that I am ashamed to look at and half of them are decade old dead links.

Everyone is different, though. A sane person could categorize different bookmarks into relevant sub folders and review/clean them out monthly.

I'm not that person.

The semi-logical reason that I leave so many tabs open, is that I do need/want the tab now, or in the near future, and keeping it in a tab is sort of like a sticky note to remind myself to do it. It rarely works though and just contributes to a growing sense of anxiety as I'm constantly stared down by a huge row of "to-dos"

I'd recommend using bookmarks instead. There is absolutely no way where you need thousands at the same time. Save them in a logical folder structure instead!

tree style tab or sidebery

bonus, with sidebery you also have panels, to add another level of classification. each panel can have it's own pinned tabs.

There's History.