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16 Post author: Raemon 23 January 2011 04:05AM

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Comment author: khafra 24 January 2011 12:04:59AM 1 point [-]

I am your previous office mate :/. I don't like it that way; I wish I could get the information I want to keep in my head into it, but somehow those tabs just keep sitting there--after you pass a certain amount, the "out of sight, out of mind" effect kicks in, and various other akrasiastic effects--and I only start afresh when I can't recover a tab-set, which feels mildly catastrophic and mildly cathartic.

Comment author: datadataeverywhere 24 January 2011 02:42:30AM 0 points [-]

You had me quite confused until I looked through your other comments to assure myself you were being metaphorical.

Most tabs he gets through within a week. The ones that stick around longer are mostly references, articles he's liked, sort of an alternate bookmark space. He actually prefers tabs to bookmarks most of the time, and has treated an unrecoverable tab set as a catastrophic event.

Maybe I've gaged his feelings wrong, but we've talked about it, and I don't think he views it the same way you do.

If you don't like it, what have you tried to do to change it? I've felt similar to the way you describe before, and solved it by forcing myself to shut down my computer at night (and not save tabs between sessions). If something is really important, I'll get it over with before I shut my computer down, or I'll bookmark it, but it stops plaguing me either way.